From the bestselling author of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, a fiendishly fun locked room (train) murder mystery that "offers a tip of the hat to the great Agatha Christie novel while at the same time being a modern reinvention of it" (Nita Prose) — perfect for fans of Richard Osman and Anthony Horowitz

When the Australian Mystery Writers' Society invited me to their crime-writing festival

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In 1908, a brilliant American battleship gun designer dies in a sensational apparent suicide. The man's grief-stricken daughter turns to the legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency to clear her father's name. Van Dorn puts his chief investigator on the case, and Isaac Bell soon realizes that the clues point not to suicide but to murder.

The narrator describes the excitement of having the train pull into the town of Jacksonville, Texas, when he was a boy.

Follow the Mighty Express in this sturdy board book! It's Mighty Recycling Day in Tracksville, and Flicker's Mega Mission is to pick up all the bottles and cans and recycle them in Building Yard Station. But when his big pile of recyclables turns into a big problem, it's up to Flicker and the Mighty Express to work together and get the job done and delivered. Will Flicker stay on track and deliver the recyling pile? Read along and find out! 

On any other night, the train departing from Stain'd Station does not stop on its way to the city. What makes this night different is far less important than what waits on the other side of the tracks as readers reach the end of the line with this conclusion to the series.

Even though jostling sheep, bright moonlight, and a monster teddy bear threaten the sleep of its passengers, the Goodnight Train successfully completes its run.

Thomas and James race to the big soccer match.

Thomas helps his friends Bash and Dash to slow down.

Stanley has a busy day driving a train to the sea.