Excerpts from the Book 'Murder On The Limited':

... the only reminder Stanley, the pullman conductor, had that there was anyone else awake on the Limited other than himself. He glanced through the window ...
... husband had made the run from New York. Her white face and haggard eyes brought him to his feet. My husband's vanished-disappeared right before my ...
... it was more than the temperature that made her shiver and turn her stricken eyes toward the slightly swaying curtain to the corridor. He nodded for ...
... he saw her fingers wandering instinctively over the tightly constricted cords of her neck, trying to shake back her steadily rising hysteria. This ...
... turned away. We'll take a look in this car.. The light from the end of the Pullman shone dimly down the aisle, revealing the neat series ...
... diagonally across the bed, face down. The small light above the pillow illuminated the shock of iron-gray hair lying against the white sheet and his ...
... on his blue sleeve. Well. he breathed. Stanley spoke mechanically. Saunders was stabbed from behind and throttled as he came down the aisle ...
... was an eye-witness to a gang shooting in St. Louis a few months ago. There were some other witnesses but they won't talk, scared to death. Saunders was ...
... all of a sudden-like in your pajamas.. Kelley's eyes flickered and then steadied before the level gaze of the older man. O.K., he muttered. Stanley ...
... apparently innocent. At the other end of the car Kelley cursed softly. How can a dirty killer lie there and look so peaceful.. Of course ...
... a flash of the dark blue suit the man was wearing, saw an arm swing back. The flashlight was dashed from his hand, the berth plunged in darkness. As ...
... through the split in the curtains and fanned them menacingly. The other two froze and raised their hands. He sucked in his breath from pain and pushed ...
... his face.. Kelley shook his head in the negative. They went back and searched the berth. There was nothing, no clues-only blood-stained sheets where ...
... two plainclothes men.. Braden nodded silently and the two dicks walked down and got on the observation car with him and Kelley. Stanley explained ...
... of the last Muncie passenger, a heavily built, ill-tempered fellow. What's the big delay. he growled, drawing his watch and waving it before Stanley's ...
... what. Stanley smiled apologetically. Sorry to disturb you again. Was there anyone in this drawing room when you came on board.. The man raised ...
... flamed and his hand stole toward his coat. Hold that pose, cried one of the dicks, flashing his service pistol. Stanley knelt and examined the man ...
... one to jail and t'other to the hospital, Jeb drawled. Stanley lay back with a great sigh of relief. There's one thing those dicks couldn't understand, ...
... and kept waving his watch in front of my face. Yeah. And complainin' about the delay.. Yeah.. His watch was on Eastern Standard time. Muncie's ...
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