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Summary

Genre: Thriller, Detective

Format: Short Story

Setting: Orient Express

Recurring Characters: Parker Pyne

Synopsis

Elsie Jeffries, married for eighteen months to successful businessman Edward, meets Parker Pyne by chance on the Simplon-Orient Express. She has seen Pyne’s advertisements and feels he may be able to help her. She tells Pyne she has seen a fragment of a letter left on Edward’s blotting pad, which points to some sort of plot against her while she is on the train to Stamboul...

This story, which was published in 1933, appeared in the USA in Cosmopolitan. However when it was published in the UK in Nash’s Pall Mall it appeared under the title On the Orient Express. It is of course a completely different story to the novel Murder on the Orient Express which was published in the same year.

Published in Parker Pyne Investigates.

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