While waiting for a train connection, Sarah Marlowe is drawn into a conversation with an elderly woman named Emily who is also traveling alone. She tells Sarah an incredible tale of being entrusted with a package by a stranger dying of a stab wound. Soon afterward, on the train to London, Sarah discovers the same package in her own handbag. The next day, she learns Emily has been murdered.<br /><br />Beloved crime writer Patricia Wentworth fills us with romance, adventure, and gothic intrigue in this exciting thriller.