| Location of appearance | Title | Character | Gender | Age | Hair Color | Hair Style / direction | Features |
| Hotel Constantine | Detective | Hercule Poirot | M | 50+ | Dark | Back | Neat moustache |
| Syria 1937 | |||||||
| Desert Excavation | Lord | Boynton | M | 50+ | Dark | Back | Moustache |
| Streets | Dr | Sarah King | F | 20+ | Blonde | Curly | Likes Raymond |
| Hotel, Tea room | Raymond Boynton | M | 20+ | Dark | Right | ||
| Hotel, Tea room | Lady | Leonora Boynton | F | 50+ | Brown | Curly | Used to be Mrs Pierce |
| Hotel patio | Colonel | Carbury | M | 60+ | White | Thin backwards | 3-day beard. Travels here and there |
| Hotel, room 6 | Jinny Boynton | F | 20+ | Golden Brown | Long, Wavy | Lord Boynton's stepdaughter | |
| Hotel, room 6 | Sister | Agnieszka | F | 30+ | Sandy brown | Short | Polish Nun. Looking for Room 9. Hangs around the youngest Boynton girl |
| Outside hotel | Jefferson Cope | M | 30+ | Dark | American. Paid for ..'s taxi | ||
| Outside hotel | Leonard Boynton | M | 40+ | Sandy yellow | Back right | Lord Boynton's stepson | |
| Hotel, room next to room 6 | Carol Boynton | F | 30+ | Dark Brown | Curly left | ||
| Hotel dining room | Nanny | Taylor | F | 60+ | Grey | Wavy, parted, bun | |
| Hotel dining room | Psychiatrist? | Dr Theodore Gerard | M | 50+ | Greying dark | Curly | Likes Jinny |
| Transport to Ain Musa | Author | Dame Celia Westholme | F | 40+ | Dark auburn | Right, curly | |
| Casbah | Rugged Arab boy | M | 10+ | Winter hat | Sold a red bag of something to Leonard? | ||
| Referred by Colonel Cadbury | Mahmoud | M | |||||
| Locations | Notes |
| Hotel Constantine | Syria |
| Casbah, Ain Musa | A Casbah usually means like a fortress, watchtower, medina, keep |
| Ain Musa, Syria | In real life, there’s a Ain Musa in Egypt. I dont know of any in Syria. |
| The Boynton family: | |
| Dad | Lord B |
| Mom | Leonora B (evil) |
| Stepson | Raymond B |
| Stepdaughter | Carol B |
| Stepdaughter | Jinny B |
| Stepson | Leonard B |
| Stepdaughter? | Lesley? |
| Who took the lorry to the Kasbah: |
| Hercule Poirot |
| Dr Theodore Gerald |
| Dr Sarah King |
| Jefferson Cope |
| Polish nun |
| Leonard Boynton |
| Celia Westholme (mid-way) |
| Who took the bus to the Kasbah: |
| Nanny |
| The rest of the Boynton family |
| Who walked to the excavation: |
| Hercule Poirot |
| Dr Sarah King |
| Jefferson Cope |
| Polish nun |
| Celia Westholme |
| Nanny Taylor |
| Carol B |
| Dr Theodore Gerald (returned ill) |
| Raymond B (returned with Theodore) |
| Jinny B (returned with Theodore) |
| Who didn’t walk to the excavation: |
| Lord B |
| Leonora B |
| Leonard B |
| Lady B's Inheritance: |
| Lord B? |