Dread Journey by Dorothy Hughes
This is a detective throwaway I picked up just before the Pima County libraries closed down. It is a reprint of a novel published just after the end of WW II and does seem to ride the coattails of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express.
In this one a cadre of Hollywood folks board the Super Chief in California for a ride to the Big Apple. We have a big name producer, a big name star, a couple of writers, a band leader, and the porter. There is lots of angst from all as they seque from the club car, to the dining car, to their compartments. Lots of smoking and alcohol flows like water. Finally the murder and the surprise ending just before the train arrives in Chicago. The style seems pretty strained to me and the portents of dread a bit over the top.
Shows its age. Not recommended.
Thomasina in Tom Stoppard's mind bending time warping play, ARCADIA, observes that when you stir raspberry jam into vanilla pudding it will first swirl in streaks but ultimately will turn the entire pudding pink. If you stir the pudding in the opposite direction, the jam will not separate back out again. --LIFE MOVES ONLY FORWARD--NEVER BACK!--
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