Night Train to Murder
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4.3 • 6 Ratings
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
When a body is discovered in a locked toilet cubicle on the late-night train to Bath, Ishmael Jones is faced with his most puzzling case to date.
When Ishmael Jones and his partner Penny are asked to escort a VIP on the late-night train to Bath, it would appear to be a routine case. The Organisation has acquired intelligence that an attempt is to be made on Sir Dennis Gregson’s life as he travels to Bath to take up his new position as Head of the British Psychic Weapons Division. Ishmael’s mission is to ensure that Sir Dennis arrives safely.
How could anyone orchestrate a murder in a crowded railway carriage without being noticed and with no obvious means of escape? When a body is discovered in a locked toilet cubicle, Ishmael Jones has just 56 minutes to solve a seemingly impossible crime before the train reaches its destination.
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In Green's decent eighth paranormal mystery featuring disguised alien Ishmael Jones (after 2019's Till Sudden Death Do Us Part), Jones whose spaceship crashed in England in 1963 and was transformed by the ship's machines into the simulacrum of a human and his partner in the secret group called the Organization, Penny Belcourt, are tasked with guarding the new head of Britain's Psychic Weapons Division, Sir Dennis Gregson, on a late-night train from London to Bath. Steps have been taken to keep Gregson alive, but Jones and Belcourt's track record of "catching killers, if not always protecting their victims," is unfortunately extended. After Gregson goes to the bathroom, he's found on the toilet, with his neck broken, behind a locked door. Jones focuses on the surviving three passengers and Gregson's bodyguard, but neither Jones nor Belcourt saw any of the four approach the bathroom between the time Gregson entered it and the discovery of his body. Never mind that a human detective could have done as well in solving the crime. This entertaining romp is one of the series' better entries.
