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THE TOWN THAT ISN'T THERE
An Orient Express Mystery Poirot Never Solved

Train journey murder-mystery tours have become very popular, perhaps inspired by a certain mystery novel with a fastidious Belgian detective. Riding the Swiss Rail train across the Swiss-Italian border, winding up the long grade toward Brig, you travel the tracks followed by the Simplon line of the legendary Orient Express of literary and movie fame. Change trains at Brig or Visp on the Matterhorn-Gotthard Bahn line to Zermatt, the route of the Glacier Express where it climbs along sections of cogwheel track up the steep valley and the track path has made a change since the romantic golden days when Hercule Poirot unearthed the intricate plot of a dozen murderers.

As you pass along the slope of a long deep valley, the rail track curves sharply away from the mountainside passing around a cascaded pile of crumbled stone and high in the canyon gap above, a wall of white clings between the rock crags like the glass sharp edge of the broken end of a popsicle. The pile of stone is where a Swiss Alpine village once stood. The jagged white above is the sheer terminus of a glacier. One heavy winter the snow was too much for the mountain to hold and an avalanche of ice brought down the ancient mountainside rock, burying the entire village and it’s sleeping inhabitants. Gone in an instant. I wonder if Poirot could get Mother Nature to confess to this mass murder. © Bargain Travel Europe

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