Mary Debenham

Mary Hermione Debenham is a major protagonist in Agatha Christie's 1934 Hercule Poirot novel, Murder on the Orient Express, and its adaptations. She is one of the twelve culprits of the story that killed Lanfranco Cassetti.
She was portrayed by various actresses including in 1974, in 2001, in 2010, and in 2017.
==Overview==
Being one of the closest familiars to the Armstrong Family before its tragedy, Ms. Debenham was a professional governor to Countess Helena Andrenyi and formerly a tutor to the late Daisy Armstrong, and a personal secretary to the late Sonia Armstrong. In the 2010 film, she had her arm broken and paralyzed by Cassetti's thug. She participated in his murder and was one of the twelve who stabbed him to death in his sleep.
After the deaths of Daisy, Mary became a governess in Istanbul teaching two children. She was in a relationship with Colonel John Arbuthnot, the closest friend of the late Colonel Armstrong, who also participate the murder to avenge his friends. Their brief interaction whilst pretending as strangers was spotted by Poirot, and it later became a factor to solve Casetti's murder. She was eventually spared alongside other culprits because of the sympathetic circumstances behind the murder.
On board the Orient Express, Mary occupied berth No. 11, sharing a second-class compartment on the Calais coach with Greta Ohlsson who was in the lower berth, No. 10.
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