The Plymouth Express Affair

A cold train journey to Plymouth becomes a nightmare when naval officer Alec Simpson discovers a murdered woman hidden beneath a seat in his compartment. The victim is soon identified as Mrs. Rupert Carrington, known to her family as Flossie, the troubled daughter of powerful American industrialist Ebenezer Halliday, who calls on Hercule Poirot to expose the killer. What begins as a shocking railway murder quickly widens into a web of wealth, marital strain, and old scandal. Poirot and his companion trace Flossie's last journey, learning that she was actually bound for Bristol, traveling alone with her maid in a separate carriage and carrying a jewel case worth a fortune. At Bristol, the maid, Jane Mason, was alarmed to find an unidentified man in the compartment with her mistress. As Poirot examines the train timings, the missing jewels, the failing marriage, and the divorce proceedings that left the husband poised to inherit everything, the case darkens into a carefully planned crime shaped by greed, deception, and secret meetings. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.