Every passenger on the night train to Edinburgh is carrying the same photograph of you. Then the conductor locks the carriage doors: “We’ve been expecting you, Miss Hale.” A locked-room mystery on a 1930s sleeper in the snow.
Pominis· 2 chapters· about 3 in all· about 5 min a chapter
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Chapter 1 · about 6 min
A Carriage Full of Faces
Evelyn Hale boards the midnight express during a blinding blizzard, only to find every stranger in Carriage B holds her photograph before the doors are locked from within.
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Chapter 2 · about 4 min
The Conductor's Ledger
Evelyn breaks into Conductor MacIntyre's private sanctum to uncover the paper trail behind the conspiracy aboard Carriage B.
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Evelyn Hale
A resourceful London archivist who discovers her own portra…
Conductor Alistair MacIntyre
The punctilious
Lady Cordelia Vance
An imperious aristocratic dowager harboring family secrets …