Weird guy just got aboard the train with his wife and a large steamer trunk. They’re in the roomette across from me. 

The couple is arguing. Ugh. Keep it down you weirdos - I’m trying to watch Cosmos in peace! 

Just had breakfast in the dining car. The weirdo husband was eating alone. Wife must still be asleep. 

No worries re: the weirdo’s wife. Just saw her in the lounge car. I helped her get a bag down from the overhead rack - she couldnt reach it. 

The weird guy’s trunk isn’t in the luggage rack! 

Just ran into the wife again. She was fishing something out of her bag again. 

Something is not adding up with all this stuff. I’m going to poke around and see what’s what. 

Oh my god. I think this guy murdered his wife. And the “wife” I just ran into is an impostor! I am investigating this!! 

I just told a surly conductor about my suspicions of murder. He told me to mind my own business. BUT I WONT. 

The husband and “wife” are eating in the dining car. I’m gonna poke around their room while they’re not around. 

I found some Ferrari brochures in his travel bag. This guy is definitely expecting to come into some money. I’m gonna research his name. 

His name is Reginald Van Voorst. His wife is Carolyn Van Voorst, sole inheritor of the Van Voorst Cosmetics fortune! 

Sitting in coach to do some thinking. I wish I could make a breakthrough on this case. Think, Tom. Think! 

And I wish this lady would stop climbing on the seat to reach her luggage in the overhead rack. Ask for help if you’re not tall enough! 

OH MY GOD I JUST HAD A BREAKTHROUGH! I need to find the surly conductor and explain everything to hi 

Just explained everything to the surly conductor. He is with me. When we get to the next stop he’s going to alert the police. 

Someone just scurried out of the adjoining booth. I doubt they were eavesdropping on our conversation. Case closed, Tom. Get some sleep. 

I’m in my room getting ready to go to OH MY GOD THE CONDUCTORS LIFELESS BODY JUST FELL PAST MY WINDOW ONTO THE TRACKS BELOW! 

Just saw Van Voorst in the dining car. He ran his finger across his throat and smiled. Gulp. 

It’s me versus you, Van Voorst. You murdered your wife and I can prove it. 

Just ate lunch. I don’t know why the salad dressing was purple and tasted funny like medicine. Weird. 

I just passed out. Knocked out cold. 

I just woke up. Inside some sort of trunk. What is that thing pressed against OH MY GOD IT IS A DEAD BODY! And this trunk is locked! 

The body belongs to Mrs Van Voorst. I am trying to pick the lock with a pendant from a necklace she had on. 

Something weird about the pendant. The inscription has the initials “RF”. Not “CVV”. is this not the body of Carolyn Van Voorst? Puzzling! 

Just popped the lock. I’m stuck in some sort of luggage compartment below the train. Hopefully this panel takes me up into the train. 

I just came up through a panel beneath a table in the snack car. I interrupted a very snooty man who haughtily said “WELL I NEVER!” 

I just confronted Mr and Mrs Van Voorst in the observation car. Reginald wants to retire to his room to sort out this “unfortunate mess”. 

I’m going up to his room to discuss this whole situation in a civilized - okay, he just pulled a gun on me. 

Now he wants to know exactly how I figured it all out. I guess I will oblige him this request; after all he IS the one holding the gun. 

I was suspicious of him the whole time. He looked nervous and on edge. Like he was up to something. But that is hardly proof of anything. 

I heard Reginald argue with his wife. Which also raised a flag. But when I helped his wife with a bag on the overhead rack it came together. 

I saw Carolyn Van Voorst getting something from her bag later. But she didn’t need help the second time! That second woman was not Carolyn! 

She was taller than Carolyn! So Van Voorst mustve killed his wife and then put his lookalike mistress’s necklace on her dead body! 

That is why the dead body in the trunk LOOKED like Carolyn but wore a pendant with the initials RF! It was a switcheroo! 

That way Reginald would have access to the money from his wife’s inheritance but everybody on the train saw them together! 

I’m sure Reginald and his mistress had a lot of plans for that money. Like a new Ferrari for starters. But they didn’t count on one thing. 

Me

You have the right to remain silent. Anything - oh, I forgot. I am not a cop and you still have a gun pointed at me. Whoops. 

He is now walking me to the back of the train where I am to jump to a certain JUDO CHOP! That bought me enough time to hide on the roof! 

Now he’s on the roof shooting at me! I slipped and am hanging on in front of the “well I never” guy’s window. He just said it AGAIN! 

He has me dead to rights. He is going to shoot me. Should I tell him about the tunnel that he has his back to? I don’t think I will. 

His head just got knocked off his body. It rolled onto the “well I never” guy’s lap. I will now have his mistress arrested as an accomplice. 

THE END. 

Amazing Train Murder Mystery By Tom Scharpling 2010 @scharpling on Twitter