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Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express Hints
Where do I get the stuff to read the burnt paper?
1 of 8: As Poirot said, you'll need four things here: two bits of wire mesh, a source of heat, and something to handle the burnt paper. You can find them all on the train, in cars that you currently have access to. (And if you feel like rooting through people's stuff while you're in their rooms, go right ahead.)
2 of 8: What you're actually looking for are two wire hat forms from inside hatboxes, a small oil or alcohol lamp, a box of matches, and Poirot's mustache curler.
3 of 8: The mustache curler, a small green thing on his nightstand, you can take whenever you like.
4 of 8: This being 1934, every woman on this train has a hat box in her luggage. Go into every woman's room and look for a hatbox, then open it and remove the hat to see what kind of support it has. As Poirot says, the wire mesh is an old-fashioned way to build a hatbox, so the more old-fashioned women are more likely to have what you need.
5 of 8: You'll find two wire hat forms in the rooms of Princess Dragomiroff and Greta Ohlsson.
6 of 8: The matches you presumably have; they were inside Ratchett's coat in his room, and were presumably the ones he borrowed from Poirot after dinner.
7 of 8: The lamp is actually a sterno lamp, the kind of thing that goes under a chafing dish to keep the food hot.
8 of 8: So go to the restaurant car and look on the buffet table, at the front of the car by the kitchen.
