Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express Suchet to do voice acting for "Murder on the Orient Express", and said that his skillful voice acting would bring "tremendous excitement and authenticity" to the game. As with "And Then There Were None", Sheldon introduced a new character to the plot of "Murder on the Orient Express", who was not present in Christie's novel, in order to fulfill the role of a player character and protagonist. The character, Antoinette Marceau, is described by Sheldon as an amalgam of two characters from the novel. These were Poirot's friend who ran the Orient Express, Marcel Bouc, and a young soldier who
Saint-Calais by the monks, thereby retaining a significant lake area. Reaction against monastic landowners and the relative proximity to Paris (under twenty-four hours by stage-coach) conditioned the nineteenth century politics of the town. The coming of the railways and more recently of the motorway favoured neighbouring La Ferté-Bernard which has grown at the expense of Saint-Calais, which has a population under 4000 and which lost its sous-préfecture status in 1926. The town however retains certain services appropriate to that level, e.g. hospital facilities. Saint-Calais was involved in the 1906 Grand Prix de l'Automobile Club de France, the world's first motoring Grand