For an instant the two trains ran together, side by side. In that frozenmoment, Elspeth witnessed a murder. Helplessly, she stared out of hercarriage window as a man remorselessly tightened his grip around a woman'sthroat. The body crumpled. Then the other train drew away. But who, apart from Miss Marple, would take her story seriously? Afterall, there were no
suspects, no other witnesses... and no corpse.