Just ahead of Episode Twelve of Mystery in White, a thank you for all your kind comments about this Christmas serialisation and about all our other Tales for Our Time. Seven-and-a-half years ago now, we launched this series of audio adventures on a whim, threw it together somewhat hastily, and learned on the job. So we're enormously grateful for your appreciation of it.
In tonight's episode, having fled a snowbound train on Christmas Eve, our party of stranded passengers are forced to consider that they may have made their situation rather worse:
Mr. Hopkins took his handkerchief from his pocket and mopped his brow. It was not the first time he had done so, but his brow had never needed the operation more acutely.
"W-what's that mean?" he asked.
"It means," answered Mr. Maltby, "that W. T. Barling is probably not the only person who has been murdered to-day, and that the body of the second murdered person is considerably nearer to us than Barling's as we sit here. It means that Smith, in his last flight, tripped over the body, and may now be a raving lunatic—with a knife—as well as a murderer."
"How do you know?"
"Because I nearly tripped over the body myself..."
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Fran, a New Mexico member of The Mark Steyn Club, writes:
I got a few good laughs from the scene with the character with ankle injury reading what she wrote in her journal. I read back what I sometimes write in comments and think yes, I wonder if I do that, too. Yikes.
Ah, well: unlike in Miss Noyes' day, everyone now keeps their journal on the Internet and accessible to the world.
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