It's a very easy read, and perfect for December nights, but towards the end I did find that too much of the big reveal was delivered through dialogue instead of action. The whole set up is quite wildly improbable and the amateur detective (a psychic expert) is perhaps a little too insightful, but all the disparate people and elements of the plot make for a darn good story. I also seem to remember getting frustrated with the character who appoints himself as a leader of the group though my memory may be cheating me! Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).

The train passengers include a David and Lydia (a brother and sister), Jessie (a chorus girl) and Robert (a clerk with a worsening fever). She felt herself sinking back into an easy, amiable past, where the fight for bread-and-butter – often so sordid a fight – did not exist.There are a good cast of characters, including an elderly bore, a psychic, a brother and sister, a young office clerk and a chorus girl travelling to an audition. It is still not that often that I have come across depictions of characters suffering from shell shock in the original 1920s/30s mysteries. After this delightfully intriguing start, things get more and more puzzling for the trapped visitors. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Attempts are made at trying to find a path out of the snowbound haven but these fail but on one of the excursions a lady and her father are discovered, having crashed their car into a ditch. I’m glad that you were able to go back and take another look at this as I was curious to see what you made of it. Age has not diminished this wintry tale, originally published in 1937, from British crime novelist Farjeon (1883–1955), whose Number 17 was the basis of the Hitchcock film of the same name.And it’s even harder when you're trying to put your finger on precisely where the book disappointed you. J. Jefferson Farjeon does provide a subtly humorous, well-plotted, if not strictly cozy, puzzle for us to solve. Some of the passengers attempt to walk to the nearest station, get lost, and find themselves at a house where the fires are lit in the grates, the kettle's boiling on the stove, the table has been set for tea .