288 pages | Paperback

Now with abeautifulnew series look,a woman in one train witnesses a murder occurring in another passing oneand only Miss Marple believes her story.

For an instant the two trains ran side by side. In that frozen moment, Elspeth McGillicuddy stared helplessly out of her carriage window as a man tightened his grip around a womans throat. The body crumpled. Then the other train drew away. But who, apart from Mrs. McGillicuddys friend Jane Marple, would take her story seriously? After all, there are no other witnesses, no suspects, and no casefor there is no corpse, and no one is missing.

Miss Marple asks her highly efficient and intelligent young friend Lucy Eyelesbarrow to infiltrate the Crackenthorpe family, who seem to be at the heart of the mystery, and help unmask a murderer.