Previously published in the print anthology Parker Pine Investigates.
Elsie Jeffries, married for eighteen months to successful businessman Edward Jeffries, meets Parker Pyne by chance on the Simplon-Orient Express. She has seen Pyne's advertisements and feels he may be able to help her. She tells Pyne she has seen a fragment of a letter left on Edward's blotting pad, which points to some sort of plot against her, to be carried out while she is on the train to Stamboul ...
Previously published in the print anthology Parker Pine Investigates.
Elsie Jeffries, married for eighteen months to successful businessman Edward Jeffries, meets Parker Pyne by chance on the Simplon-Orient Express. She has seen Pyne's advertisements and feels he may be able to help her. She tells Pyne she has seen a fragment of a letter left on Edward's blotting pad, which points to some sort of plot against her, to be carried out while she is on the train to Stamboul ...