D: Stamboul Train (1932)

five parts

set in April 1932? written from January to July

 US title: Orient Express

[wikipedia]

reviews w/spoilers: [astrofella]

 

George Santayana, "Everything is lyrical in its ideal essence; tragic in its fate and comic in its existence"

 audio inspiration [youtube]

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JB Priestley

Mabel Warren
Janet Pardoe
Josef Grünlich
Carleton Myatt
Eckman
Coral Musker
Dr. Czinner
Stein
Savory (JB Priestley found this defamatory: eg Dickens, pipe-smoking, blunt fingers)
Eckart

 

Part One Ostend I

II

plate-lifter
 

Part Two Cologne

Part Three Vienna

Part Four Subotica

Part Five Constantinople