The Tunnel Mystery John FergusonA busy train, a howling gale, A pitch black tunnel. And a single, blood bent bullet There came a piercing shriek from the whistle, and the next moment they plunged into Highpen Tunnel and absolute darkness. No light came on. Even the usual flickering pencil point of flame in the bowl at the ceiling was absent Travelling third class on a crowded train from Yorkshire to London, after purchasing a necklace from a shady knight of the realm, Hatton Garden
Hay Smith has been found dead
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discoverer of the Magisterium – the ‘master-cure for all human ailments’
Alarming and strange occurrences greet them upon arrival
instead finds Hay Smith’s body
had been about to open in Hamlet at Hatherford’s Theatre Royal but now lay dead - stabbed in the back with a rapier
is heading home late one night when two men enter his train compartment
Solemnly dedicating themselves to the task of running down the murderer
Why did no one hear the shot
having been summoned to Marsh House to meet the chief editor of The Daily Record
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many of them leading figures of their generation including Virginia Woolf
