Wait! Does this mean we are about to explore that classic British mystery subgenre, the Timetable Mystery? Like such classics as George Bellairs’ The Case of the Seven Whistlers, Yu Aoi’s Funatomi no Sangeki, and, of course, Mr. Neville Shunt’s immortal It All Happened on the 11.20 from Hainault to Redhill via Horsham and Reigate, calling at Carshalton Beeches, Malmesbury, Tooting Bec, and Croydon West

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