The Crime in Car 13

Murder disrupts a reporter’s train trip in this classic mystery from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, from the author of The House of the Two Green Eyes.

New York City reporter Hamlin Douglas has a knack for getting into trouble. When an assignment gets dangerous and his editor pushes him more, he loses his temper and is promptly placed on suspension. Making use of his new surplus of free time, Ham decides to escape the city for a few weeks of bass fishing upstate. But trouble soon finds him after he boards the Montreal-Adirondack Limited at Grand Central.

A ticket mix-up leads Ham to switch berths with a peculiar Englishman with two names, and one portfolio chained to his wrist. The next morning, the porter discovers the Englishman strangled to death in his berth and his portfolio has vanished. As a reporter, Ham can’t help but be curious. Just who was the Englishman? Myron? Morepath? And the portfolio wasn’t all that vanished. There was a seedy looking passenger on board who disappeared . . .

Suddenly Ham’s trip to catch some bass turns into a hunt for a killer that’s tangled up in international intrigue. It will be quite a story for the paper, if he survives.