And there are witnesses who will swear that Jane Wilkinson visited her husband just prior to his murder. It will come as no surprise to the reader then, when sometime after this conversation, his Lordship is found dead - stabbed through the back of the neck. She begs Poirot to call and see Lord Edgware to try to persuade him to give her a divorce and adds ' If you don't, I'll have to call a taxi and go round and bump him off myself.' And when she makes this laughing remark, the door to the room is ajar.!! Jane tells him that her husband is refusing to divorce her and she desperately wants her freedom to marry the wealthy Duke of Merton. Poirot, somewhat taken aback but amused informs her that getting rid of husbands is not what he is about. She takes Poirot to her Savoy hotel suite and without further ado says, ' Mr Poirot, somehow or other I've just got to get rid of my husband.' Subsequently, at the end of the show, she joins Poirot on the train at Belgrade and they finish their journey together.Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings are enjoying the performance of an American actress called Carlotta Adams whose ability of do impressions of famous people has been taking London by storm, when they are approached by an even more famous actress called Jane Wilkinson. She suggests marriage, which Poirot rejects. A murder takes place in her bar and she asks Poirot to come and solve it.

Here, she runs a bar in Istanbul (reminiscent of The Capture of Cerberus). The Countess appeared as a minor character in the 2001 film adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express, though she never appeared in the source material. In books In Other Medias Murder on the Orient Express (2001 film) It was speculated by Hastings that Poirot had some feeling for her, something Hastings jokingly mused that the short men always fell for tall and plump ladies. The Countess is described as a tall and beautiful middle-aged Russian woman with long, fiery red hair. She was an agent of the Big Four who later becames a double agent and an ally to Poirot. She previously met Poirot in The Double Clue, where Poirot was smitten with her.

The Countess is a flamboyant, eccentric and devious Russian former aristocrat-turned-thief who became a refugee following the October Revolution. She currently had no personal fortune.

3.1 Murder on the Orient Express (2001 film).

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