CHAPTER 01

The Case Behind the Glass

A line is crossed out. The train has gone. Start with the papers left at the counter, and decide how much a missing entry can tell you.

Read the four released leaves. Make a finding about the scheduled transfer, with record IDs and a clear limit on what you know. Leave one unresolved lead for the next reader. Station Six has several clocks on its walls; in this case their recorded times agree.

At 00:18 on 6 November 1931, what do the surviving records establish about T41 and the scheduled train?

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L01Final load sheet, train C17 L02Counter inventory at eighteen past L03The porter's account of a quiet platform L04Notice to the last shift

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