Escape: The Lost Special (Arthur Conan Doyle)

[james_davis_nicoll]

The Lost Special (Arthur Conan Doyle)

A detective is stuck with a seemingly impossible to solve mystery: how could a train vanish without a trace from a single tracked route between stations?

Very reminiscent of a Holmes story but not in this form a Holmes story.

Comments

[emt-hawk.livejournal.com]

That was the plot of the last of the Cummerbach SH tv shows I watched.

--Hawk

[kithrup.livejournal.com]

I don't think that's the case... it does indeed sound familiar, but I don't recall it from the Moffat show.

Unless it was one of the small vignettes in "The Sign of Three"?

[emt-hawk.livejournal.com]

No, it was the one where he "returned from the dead."

[kithrup.livejournal.com]

"The Empty Hearse," then?

I was planning on rewatching it, so I'll look out for that. Thanks.

[nelc.livejournal.com]

So it's not one of the sequels to The Lost World then? Because I was betting it had something to do with Prof Challenger's lost pterodactyl (which was really a baby quetzalcoatlus).

[harvey-rrit.livejournal.com]

I liked Donald Westlake's take on the idea: KAHAWA.

Written chiefly from the viewpoint of the crooks, of course. A trainload of coffee is stolen from Idi Amin....

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

Archive.org had a set of five "Railway Mysteries" in this series read by Benedict Cumberbatch up for a while---they're gone now. (I've now asked for their return.) Quite charming!

[chrysostom476.livejournal.com]

Does Sir Topham Hatt have an alias?