Rail travel may not have the speed or ‘glamour’ of air travel, or the well-heeled ambience of, say, a cruise ship, but still has its own charm and mystique that lends itself well to stories. (Much interested in trains, Fleming also included them in “Live and Let Die”, “Diamonds Are Forever” and The Man with the Golden Gun”). Road travel only lets a limited number of participants to figure, and sea travel never got over the sinking of the Titanic. Among forms of transport as settings for stories, trains seem the most popular. Agatha Christie pits Poirot to solve a particularly singular killing in “Murder on the Orient Express” (1934).

Source: Hindustan Times June 12, 2016 10:18 UTC