The Passenger from Scotland Yard
A Victorian Detective Novel
by H. F. Wood
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Five men sat in a railroad compartment on the mail train from London to Dover, sharing the discomfort and amenities of a train ride in the 1880s. The same five men boarded the Channel steamer and crossed to Calais where they entrained for Paris. When the train reached Paris, however, it was revealed that one man was a detective from Scotland Yard, on the trail of a fortune in stolen gems; one man (identity unknown) was a murderer; and another was a corpse!
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The Passenger from Scotland Yard
January 1996, Books On Tape
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in English
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The Passenger from Scotland Yard: A Victorian Detective Novel
March 1981, Dover Pubns
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The Passenger from Scotland Yard: A Victorian Detective Novel
1977, Dover Publications
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First Sentence
"The night mail for the Continent stood ready to glide out of the London terminus, the leave-taking friends assembled in small groups upon the platform before the carriage doors were reiterating last messages and once more exchanging promises to 'write,' when a hard-featured, thick-set gentleman who had been peering out of a second-class window drew back with a slight exclamation of annoyance or disappointment, and sank into a corner seat. Hardly a moment had passed, when the rattle of the guard's key was again heard in the lock, and the door fell open to admit a fifth passenger. 'Just in time, sir! ' muttered the guard, banging the door after the new arrival and relocking it. He immediately signalled with his lamp, a whistle rang out sharply, and the night mail for the Continent started from London."
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Reprint of the 1888 ed. published by Chatto and Windus, London.
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