The evidence.

Pierre Michel - the Wagon Lit conductor

- Ratchett retired to bed after dinner, before we left Belgrade

- The victim's valet and secretary visited afterwards

- Cassetti rang his bell at twenty to one

- Ratchett said, that he had made a mistake - ,, Je me suis trompé ''

- Soon after one o'clock he spoke to his friend on the next coach and returned when Mrs. Hubbard rang her bell

- Half an hour later he made a bed for Mr. MacQueen who was conversing with Colonel Arbuthnott

- After that, he sat in his seat watching the corridor until morning

- He saw a lady dressed in a scarlet kimono with dragons on it, going to the toilet

Hector MacQueen - the secretary

- Seemed astonished and angry with himself when he learned he was working for such a monster

- After leaving the dining-car he retired to his compartment and read

- Got out on the platform at Belgrade and soon got inside

- Talked to the English lady from the next compartment and conversed with Arbuthnot

- Went to Mr. Ratchett's

- Talked to Colonel Arbuthnot in his compartment, the Colonel left at about 2 o'clock

- Him and Colonel got out at Vincovci, didn't bolt the door

- They saw the conductor passing his compartment and at the same time a woman going in the opposite direction

- Saw a woman in the scarlet kimono

- Does not smoke a pipe
- His employer spoke only American (How did he answer the conductor in French, then?)

Edward Masterman - the valet

- Last seen his employer at about 9 o'clock

- The victim seemed upset by a letter

- Gave Ratchett his usual sleeping draught, but didn't see him drink it

- Has never been in America

- After he had left the victim's compartment, he called for Mr. MacQueen and returned to his compartment and read

- He shares his compartment with an Italian

- Did not sleep because of his toothache

- Does not smoke a pipe

Caroline Hubbard 

(one who can't keep her mouth shut)

- Claimed that the murderer was in her compartment

- Found a button off the conductor's tunic on a case beside the window (which belonged to neither of the conductors. I need to spare a thought on it)

- Asked the Swedish lady to bolt the door between her's and Ratchett's compartment

- The woman opened the door of Rattchet's by mistake, the victim was seen alive the last time at about a quarter to ten

- Was not acquainted with the Armstrong family

- Does not own the scarlet silk kimono

- The handkerchief does not belong to her

- She heard a woman's voice in the victim's compartment
- The weapon was found in her sponge-bag

Greta Ohlsson

- A trained nurse

- Opened Ratchett's door by mistake and got insulted

- Visited Mrs. Hubbard in search for aspirin, checked if the door between the compartment was bolted. Indeed, it was.

- Went back to her compartment and layed down awake for some time

- Shares a compartment with Miss Debenham

- Did not leave her compartment

- Does not own the scarlet silk dressing-gown

- Has never been in America

Princess Natalia Dragomiroff 

(the ugly one)

- She retired to bed straight after dinner, read until 11, but couldn't sleep

- At a quarter to 1 she called for her maid

- She has been to America many times

- She was the Godmother of Sonia Armstrong, Daisy's mother (No, it can't be her. She seems too weak to be able to stab a man 12 times, but...)

- She confirmed the existence of Sonia Armstrong's sister, but does not know where she is (or she just doesn't want to tell us)

- Does not own the scarlet kimono

   Count Adrenyi

- He was in Washington for a year

- Isn't connected with Armstrong family

- At about 11 his wife retired to her compartment

- His wife always takes a sleeping draught

- Does not smoke a pipe

Countess Elena Adrenyi (Goldenberg)

- Slept the whole night, took a sleeping draught

- There was a grease spot on the passport right beside the firs letter of her name (hmm, interesting)

- Did not accompany her husband to Washington

- Does not own the scarlet silk kimono
- The label on her suitcase was wet (perhaps removed and put on once again. Did she want to hide something?)

Colonel Arbuthnot

- First met Mary Debenham on this particular journey

- He was talking to MacQueen at a quarter past 1

- Returned to his compartment at a quarter to 2

- Got out of the train at Vincovci and returned a few minutes later

- He's a pipe-smoker

- He noticed the conductor passing by the compartment, and smelled some lady's perfume

- Has never been to America

- He noticed a man from No. 16 peering out and then closing his door quickly (a spy?)

- Did not know Colonel Armstrong personally (or did he just refuse to admit it?)
- The same type of pipe-cleaner was found in his baggage (was it him who dropped it?)

Cyrus Hardman - the detective

- He pretended to be a typewriting ribbon salesman, but he was truly a NY detective

- He received a letter from Mr. Ratchett at the Tokatlian Hotel which said:

   ,, Dear Sir,- You have been pointed out to me as an operative of the McNeil Detective Agency, Kindly report to my suite at four o'clock this afternoon. ''

- He was paid to be Ratchett's bodyguard of some kind

- The assailant described by the victim was a small dark man, with a womanish kind of voice (that, unfortunately doesn't apply to anyone on this train...) 

- Does not smoke a pipe

Antonio Foscarelli 

(the big Italian)

- An American subject

- Never came across any member of the Armstrong family

- Does not smoke a pipe

 Mary Debenham 

(the cool and sufficient one)

- She did not feel distressed about the committed murder (As she was my prime suspect, I decided to question her a bit differently. I didn't want to hear what I had already known, I wanted to look into her psychology)

-Saw the victim for the first time at dinner

- Said, that the scarlet dressing-gown was not hers (Not that she has no such thing, but that it belongs to someone else... Interesting)
- She refused to explain the words she spoke to Arbuthnot at Konya station: ,, Not now. Not now. When it's all over. When it's behind us. "

 Hildegarde Schimdt - the lady's maid

- The scarlet kimono does not belong to her

- She saw the conductor going out of one of the carriages who nearly collided with her, but it was none of the conductors on the train. The one she saw, was small and dark, with a womanish voice (confirming the description of Ratchett's enemy, which Hardman told us about. But where is he now?)

- Has never been to America

- There was hesitation in her voice when she told us, that she did not know who was the owner of the expensive handkerchief (I'm sure she knew exactly whom it belonged to, but why lie?)
- The Wagon Lit conductor's tunic was found in her luggage
- Admitted she was a good cook (Being a maid for years you don't really get a chance to cook. I need to think that over again later)

So, my friends. What can we make of all that?