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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.

Date: 2014-01-29 10:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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....
Edited Date: 2014-01-29 10:23 pm (UTC)

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