Murder mystery allows arm-chair detectives to figure out who-dunnits

By CHERIL VERNON The Palestine Herald PALESTINE — Are you an arm-chair detective who enjoys figuring out who-dunnits when watching television, movies and books? This Saturday, patrons will have the opportunity to figure out a murder mystery while riding the steam engine train at the Texas State Railroad during the Murder on the DisORIENTed EXPRESS™. This year’s mystery “Close Encounters of the Texas Kind,” presented by the Palestine Library Friends, was written by member Ruth Davis. The murder mystery/dinner-theater/train-ride event will take everyone back to the year 1969 where rumors are flying about unexplained explosions and unidentified flashing lights hovering over area farms and remote backwoods. Reports of an alien spacecraft landing a few miles from the railroad depot are tying up the sheriff’s switchboard. A federal... [read full story]