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Entertaining enough, but the mystery itself was lacking. It's appealing mostly as a period piece and it's fun on that level.
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Feb 08, 2012
Kay
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it was ok
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I enjoy classic "murder on a train" mysteries, but this one suffered from a predictable love story and a tendency to jump forward and refer back to events that hadn't yet unfolded, as in "Had Harrington slept in his own berth, none of this would have happened" -- before the reader is acquainted with who Harrington is, for example. This got more than a little tiresome.
On the plus side, references to travel and domestic arrangements circa 1909 provided plenty of interest. At one point, the protag ...more
On the plus side, references to travel and domestic arrangements circa 1909 provided plenty of interest. At one point, the protag ...more
Attorney Lawrence Blakely travels to take a deposition about some forged checks. While he slept on his return train trip home, his briefcase is stolen (with the forged check evidence), and his clothes are stolen and replaced with a stranger's. As all this isn't bad enough, a man is found murdered and it appears to his fellow passengers that Blakely is guilty. Then, to top things off, his train wrecks in a ball of fire. Although badly injured, he survives. With the help of a fellow passenger - a
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Overall, I found this book enjoyable. But, it was a little too convoluted. The story was interesting, the characters were interesting, the mystery was interesting, but there were so many twists and turns that I wonder how in the world the author managed to keep it all straight herself. It did keep me from guessing who the murderer was, but took away part of my enjoyment in the book. And I have to say that I looked everywhere for her books, most of which have been out of print for years, and I ma
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