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Orient Express people oriented

By SARAN SANDHU

LONDON - (Reuter)
Train enthusiasts, rich

‘eecentries and’ spy-thriller
addicts will be among 150
erecreating an Agatha
Chuistie-style murder on the
Orient Express this year.
For about $1,330 they will
- have the chance to dress up
in the costume of the 1920s,
live in grand style and solve
a murder mystery on a 10-
day return trip from Paris
to Istanbul.

The idea of chartering a
train from the French
railroad company, to run
over the original $3,200-
Kilometre (2,000-mile) route
‘of the legendary Orient
Express is the brainchild of
a British hotel agent,
Kenneth Faulkner.

“Everyone thought I was
mad when I first broached

the idea " he said. But we
managed to get. backing for

the project.
“ls the perfect stimulant
for a ded palate,
something for the man or
woman who has been
everywhere and done ev-
erything, he said.

he now-defunct train
once carried sultans, lords
maharajahs and grand
dukes across Europe ‘in
unrivalled luxury.
CUISINE SUPERB

The opulence of the.
velvetlined, leather
panelled coaches evoked
intrigue, romance and
mystery for millions. |

The
crystal chandeliers and
wall-to-wall carpeting
throughout will be absent
from the commemorative
trip, but a top French chef

veried attendants,

THE TOWNSMAN, Thursday, October 13, 1977, PAGE 5

An unusual train ride

and lavishly equipped
lounge cars with two bars
each should bring. back
some of the miscing glamor.
The 12-car train, including
seven sleepers and two
restaurant cars supplied by
the original: Wagon-lits
company in Belgium, will
pull out of Paris Dec, 30,
As the train rumbles
through Venice, Belgrade

_and Sofia, the travellers will

md their time playing
etective Hercule Poirot —
Agatha Christie’s famous
sleuth—to a team of 12
actors staging a mock
murder. :
Uninterested parties will
be able to while away the
hours wining and dining on

fourcourse meals of exotic
seafoods, veal in Prince
Orloff sauce, duckling st

Vorange, coquille

Jacques and entrecote a la
Ste. Helene. .
DETAILS SECRET .
The murder plot, a closely
guarded secret, includes a
racing driver a doctor, an
archeologist and a movie
star. The author, Colin
Lawrence, will only disclose
that it is set inthe 1920s and
that the murder takes place
before reaching Istanbul.
Only-a small part of the
journey will use sooty but
romantic steam
lecomotives. Most of the
distance will be covered by

‘diesel or electric traction

moving at a suitably sedate
ace through rance,
witzerland, Italy,
Yugoslavia and Bulgaria to

Turkey,

‘But why whould men and
women wearing  old-
fashioned clothes pay 50

much money to -piece .
together the clues to a fake
murder?

“Well, besides doing
something special an
trav in the style of the
most talkedabout train ever
to run through Europe, the
winner gets back the full
fare of his extraordinary
trip,’’ Faulkner said.

On its last trip on May 22
this year, the Orient Ex-
press carried 300 en-
thusiasts. It arrived more
than five hours late and
there was no food available
on the train from France to
the Turkish frontier. Most.
passengers carried’ theiz
own sandwiches and water
along with their sleeping
bags.

The organizers think they
will be deluged wit
demands for tickets.

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