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c2011., General, Talonbooks Call No: QWF Fic Tre Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 1913, a young girl leaves her grandparents' farm in Saskatchewan, to reunite with her mother who abandoned her five years earlier. As she travels to Montreal by train, she makes three stops, and at each of them, a female relative is awaits her. Each reveals to her, one of the roles to which women of the time were confined: the spinster, the mother or the prostitute.
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2016., Poisoned Pen Press Call No: MYS Fic Bur Edition: First edition, First US Trade paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: British Library crime classics.Summary Note: "On a dark November evening, Sir Wilfred Saxonby is travelling alone in the 5 o'clock train from Cannon Street, in a locked compartment. The train slows and stops inside a tunnel; and by the time it emerges again minutes later, Sir Wilfred has been shot dead, his heart pierced by a single bullet. Suicide seems to be the answer, even though no reason can be found. Inspector Arnold of Scotland Yard thinks again when he learns that a mysterious red light in the tunnel caused the train to slow down. Finding himself stumped by the puzzle, Arnold consults his friend Desmond Merrion, a wealthy amateur expert in criminology. To Merrion it seems that the dead man fell victim to a complex conspiracy, but the investigators are puzzled about the conspirators' motives, as well as their identities. Can there be a connection with Sir Wilfred's seemingly untroubled family life, his highly successful business, or his high-handed and unforgiving personality? And what is the significance of the wallet found on the corpse, and the bank notes that it contained?"--
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-- Destination murder.c2003., New American Library Call No: MYS Fic Bai Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2024., Mariner Books Call No: NEW MYS Fic Ste Edition: First U.S. edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Ernest Cunningham Volume: 2Summary Note: I'm Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. When the Australian Mystery Writers' Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the famous train between Darwin and Adelaide, I was hoping for some inspiration for my second book. Fiction, this time: I needed a break from real people killing each other. But, the Ghan is not the respite I'd been hoping for. It turns out I've trapped myself on an 1,800-mile journey with a powder keg of grudges: crime writers with hidden secrets, overeager fans bearing conspiracy theories, and agents and editors undercutting each other in order to sign the next big thing. When one of us is murdered, the remaining writers turn into detectives. Together we should know how to solve a crime. Of course, we should also know how to commit one.
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2020., Adult, HarperCollins Publishers Call No: MYS Fic Han Edition: First U.S. edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: New Hercule Poirot Volume: 4Summary Note: Hercule Poirot is traveling by luxury passenger coach from London to the exclusive Kingfisher Hill estate. Richard Devonport has summoned the renowned detective to prove that his fiancée, Helen, is innocent of the murder of his brother, Frank. Poirot will have only days to investigate before Helen is hanged, but there is one strange condition attached: he must conceal his true reason for being there from the rest of the Devonport family. The coach is forced to stop when a distressed woman demands to get off, insisting that if she stays in her seat, she will be murdered. Although the rest of the journey passes without anyone being harmed, Poirot's curiosity is aroused, and his fears are later confirmed when a body is discovered with a macabre note attached... Could this new murder and the peculiar incident on the coach be clues to solving the mystery of who killed Frank Devonport? And if Helen is innocent, can Poirot find the true culprit in time to save her from the gallows?
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2013., General, Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Lady V Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Iris Carr is travelling across Europe by train when she unwittingly becomes embroiled in a sinister Balkan plot. Feeling disoriented after a fall, Iris is befriended by Miss Froy, an elderly English woman sharing her carriage. But when she wakes up from a few hours' sleep, Miss Froy has vanished without a trace. As fellow passengers claim the lady never existed, Iris faces danger and intrigue as she fights to discover the fate of Miss Froy-- and prove that she's not going crazy. Or is she?"--Container.
![The lady vanishes [DVD] (2013). Directed by Diarmuid Lawrence](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "The lady vanishes [DVD] (2013). Directed by Diarmuid Lawrence")
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By Towles, Amor2021., Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC Call No: Fic Tow Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the work farm where he has just served a year for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett’s intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother and head west where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden’s car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett’s future.
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2002, c2001., Thorndike Press Call No: LP Fic Kam Edition: Large print ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Porfiry Rostnikov Volume: 14
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2021., Adult, Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Canada Call No: BLK Fic Oye Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When Otto and Xavier Shin declare their love, an aunt gifts them a trip on a sleeper train to mark their new commitment -- and to get them out of her house. Setting off with their pet mongoose, Otto and Xavier arrive at their sleepy local train station, but quickly deduce that The Lucky Day is no ordinary locomotive. Their trip on this former tea-smuggling train has been curated beyond their wildest imaginations, complete with mysterious and welcoming touches, like ingredients for their favourite breakfast. They seem to be the only people onboard, until Otto discovers a secretive woman who issues a surprising message. As further clues and questions pile up, and the trip upends everything they thought they knew, Otto and Xavier begin to see connections to their own pasts, connections that now bind them together.
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2009., Allison & Busby Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: In an audacious attack, the London to Birmingham mail train is robbed and derailed, causing many casualties. Planned with military precision, this crime proves a challenge to Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck who fights to untangle a web of murder, blackmail and destruction.
![The railway detective [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT75772.JPG "The railway detective [eBook]")
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2022., Coach House Books Call No: BLK Fic May Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Baxter's name isn't George. But it's 1929, and Baxter is lucky enough, as a Black man, to have a job as a sleeping car porter on a train that crisscrosses the country. So when the passengers call him George, he has to just smile and nod and act invisible. What he really wants is to go to dentistry school, but he'll have to save up a lot of nickel and dime tips to get there, so he puts up with "George." On this particular trip out west, the passengers are more unruly than usual, especially when the trainis stalled for two extra days; their secrets start to leak out and blur with the sleep-deprivation hallucinations Baxter is having. When he finds a naughty postcard of two queer men, Baxter's memories and longings are reawakened; keeping it puts his job in peril, but he can't part with the postcard or his thoughts of Edwin Drew, Porter Instructor.
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2012., Pantheon Books Call No: SC Fic McC Edition: First United States edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: As they travel by rail from Edinburgh to London, four strangers entertain one another with tales of how trains have changed their lives.
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-- La diaspora des Desrosiers.c2007., Adult, Leméac ; Actes Sud Call No: QWF FR Fic Tre Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: En 1913, Rhéauna, onze ans, doit quitter son village de Sainte-Maria-de-Saskatchewan où elle a été élevée par sa grand-mère, pour rejoindre sa mère à Montréal. Elle traverse le Canada en train, fait quelques rencontres marquantes et arrive enfin à Montréal, où se tourne une des pages les plus marquantes de sa jeune vie. Un roman initiatique plein de tendresse, inspiré par l'histoire de la propre mère de l'auteur. [SDM]
