Bouc is! The first class compartment is unusually busy though and his travelling companions include the Wagons Lit conductor Michel, plus a Hungarian countess, a Russian princess, an English governess and her military beau, a Swedish missionary, an extravagant American woman and the businessman Samuel Ratchett and his secretary. Bouc, who manages the Wagons-Lit Orient Express insists he takes a first class compartment as his guest.
Poirot needs to return home from Istanbul and his friend M. On the other hand, I was sure that Chichester would put on a brilliant production, that Henry Goodman would be a superb Poirot, and we were going to be in town anyway to see The Unfriend so it seemed churlish not to! So this wasn’t going to give me any of those suspenseful thrills that come from seeing a brand new murder mystery. On the one hand, I’ve read the book several times, seen the movie (Albert Finney, not Kenneth Branagh), and remember clearly both the crime and the (admittedly exciting) denouement and solution. I was in two minds about seeing the new play adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express.
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