- Some kind of cult leader
- Brought the Blood Red Veil from Constantinople to London
- Possibly connected to “Mrs. Leeds” (same person using an English pseudonym?)
- Was staking out the veil collector at 3 Blithering Lane, Rotherhithe
- Plans to return to Constantinople via the Orient Express
- Professor Demir has been tracking her and warned Julia-Smith about her
- Pook stole the The Blood Red Veil from her, put it on for some reason, and ended up a zombie session-1-durward-street
- Hired the blackmailer Bentley Burnham to watch the party and find out who they are, paying him a sum entered in his notebook the same day a veiled woman called on him in Shoreditch (Session 3)
- Took the Monday train from London only as far as Paris, then boarded the Orient Express there. She is now aboard the party’s train, in a small, cheap compartment in the second sleeping car (Session 4)
- Has changed her aspect: dropped the proper veiled “Mrs. Leeds” look for a flamboyant fortune-teller in scarves and shawls. Travels as spiritual adviser to The American Couple, with a hold over the wife and a frightened, hard-drinking husband (Session 4)
- Does not travel alone: a heavily veiled servant/bodyguard, a couple more bodyguards, and several other women (Session 4)
- Spotted Polat in the salon car, smiled, and raised her glass. She knows the party is aboard (Session 4)
- Bentley Burnham is terrified of her — “some people kill you if you cross them, some kill your family.” He was told a “Miss Maria Pook” hired him, and never saw her carry a book (Session 4)
- Suspected by the party of summoning The Shadows that attacked them that night, though there is no proof (Session 4)