Murder on the train – and the killer is looking for the next victim…
Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club
On a fast train to London, Arthur Crook meets trouble with a capital T. During the journey one passenger disappears and is subsequently found dead beside the line. The killer has killed before and is preparing to kill again.
Soon, a girl in desperate circumstances finds herself at the hands of a criminal organisation – will Crook now step in as her salvation in this life-and-death chase?
Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club
On a fast train to London, Arthur Crook meets trouble with a capital T. During the journey one passenger disappears and is subsequently found dead beside the line. The killer has killed before and is preparing to kill again.
Soon, a girl in desperate circumstances finds herself at the hands of a criminal organisation – will Crook now step in as her salvation in this life-and-death chase?
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Reviews
If there is one author whose books need to be widely available, it is Gilbert
Unquestionably a most intelligent author. Gifts of ingenuity, style and character drawing
Anthony Gilbert shared with other successful crime writers a combination of writing talent and clever plotting skills necessary to make it in detective fiction's Golden Age ... Along with Agatha Christie [he] had a talent to deceive
The plot is knife-edge tension all the way
Anthony Gilbert's novels show the unsensational type of detective story at its best
No author is more skilled at making a good story seem brilliant
Fast, light, likeable
