Murder on the Gautrain

Tonight we are going to reenact a scene from one of my favorite movies, Murder on the Orient Express. Vince and I have ridden on the Orient Express from Paris to Venice as well as its sister train, the Eastern & Oriental Express from Singapore to Bangkok. But alas, no murders either time.










But tonight as part of Bloody Book Week in Joburg, the brainchild of Talk Radio 702's Jenny Crwys-Williams, a murder is guaranteed. And we will play the part of Agatha Christie's renowned Inspector Poirot as we come up with the ending for a murder mystery by investigative reporter turned crime novelist Alex Eliseev along with best-selling authors and writers Peter James, Amanda Coetzee, CM Elliott, Dr. David Klatzow, Penny Lorimer, Jacques Steenkamp, and Mandy Wiener.

The murder unfolds on the ride between the Johannesburg's Rosebank Gautrain station and Pretoria. There we will convene in the Blue Train Lounge and brainstorm whodunnit and how it was done!

Someday we hope to take the famous Blue Train from Pretoria to Cape Town. In the meantime, the game's afoot ... or in this case, a-train.