It consisted of a kitchen and dining car, a sleeping car and two local coaches.īy the step leading up into the sleeping car stood a young French lieutenant, resplendent in uniform, conversing with a small lean man, muffled up to the ears, of whom nothing was visible but a pink-tipped nose and the two points of an upward curled moustache. Alongside the platform at Aleppo stood the train grandly designated in railway guides as the Taurus Express. It was five o’clock on a winter’s morning in Syria. A Second Interview with Colonel ArbuthnotĪN IMPORTANT PASSENGER ON THE TAURUS EXPRESS The Christian Name of Princess DragomiroffĦ. The Grease Spot on a Hungarian Passportĥ. Part Three: Hercule Poirot Sits Back and ThinksĤ. The Evidence of the German Lady’s Maidġ5. The Evidence of Count and Countess Andrenyiġ2. The Evidence of the Wagon Lit Conductorħ. An Important Passenger on the Taurus Expressġ.
