Colonel Annesley crosses to Calais on a wet July Sunday to find himself the only passenger in a luxurious express bound for Switzerland, until a mysterious fellow traveller joins him. Before the train reaches Lucerne a crime has been committed, and the story passes between the colonel’s narrative and the statements of the detectives who pursue him.
A pacy railway mystery by a former inspector of prisons who knew the criminal world at first hand. Download the free EPUB.