The Plymouth Express
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Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976, after a prolific career spanning six decades.
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The Plymouth Express - Agatha Christie
The Plymouth Express
By Agatha Christie
Alee Simpson, RN, stepped from the platform at Newton Abbot into a first-class compartment of the Plymouth Express. A porter followed him with a heavy suitcase. He was about to swing it up to the rack, but the young sailor stopped him.
'No - leave it on the seat. I'll put it up later. Here you are.'
'Thank you, sir.' The porter, generously tipped, withdrew.
Doors banged; a stentorian voice shouted: 'Plymouth only. Change for Torquay. Plymouth next stop.'
Then a whistle blew, and the train drew slowly out of the station.
Lieutenant Simpson had the carriage to himself. The December air was chilly, and he pulled up the window. Then he sniffed vaguely, and frowned. What a smell there was! Reminded him of that time in hospital, and the operation on his leg. Yes, chloroform; that was it!
He let the window down again, changing his seat to one with its back to the engine. He pulled a pipe out of his pocket and lit it.
For a little time he sat inactive, looking out into the night and smoking.
At last he roused himself, and opening the suitcase, took out some papers and magazines, then closed the suitcase again and endeavoured to shove it under the opposite seat - without success.
Some hidden obstacle resisted it. He shoved harder with rising impatience, but it still stuck out half-way into