Railway Mysteries

This pairing brings together two of Christie's crime novels in which a train is the scene or the witness of murder. In The Mystery of the Blue Train, first published in 1928, Hercule Poirot is drawn into the killing of a wealthy American woman on the luxury service toward the Riviera, among jewels, a faithless husband, and the cars of the train. In 4.50 from Paddington, first published in 1957, Miss Marple acts on a friend's glimpse of a strangling in a passing carriage and sends a housekeeper into a country house beside the line. The set is two independent investigations, not one serial plot.

Bound in green cloth with a 1950's train design on cover in dark green and white by Eccles, dark green endleaves. The Mystery of the Blue Train, designed and ornamented by David Eccles, bound in blue cloth with a 1930's train design on cover in dark blue and white by Eccles, dark blue endleaves. Pink-brown two-volume slipcase.