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nt, in 1919
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for Mnt
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tion and in not ruledak
ou
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ssport cont
e have
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that
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th
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tension be
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k between
notes rigorous skeptic
son bo
MAKRY
to ex
tw
en
ith

LONDON 1923

LONDON 1923

Dr Julius Smith

een the Br
and Turks
itish
in Constan
tinople
in early 19
23. The cler
k angrily maintai
ns that th
e Makryat passport
s are forger
ies, not
duplicates
, and that
they are
therefore a
British prob
lem.
If the inve
stigators sp
the time an
end
d effort to
befriend
the well-dr
essed youn
g clerk,
Mustapha
Köprülü by
name,
they get on
e piece of
intriguing news:
though th TH
e AmROba
UGsH THE ALPS
sador ne
ver ackn
owledges
it, all files
containing
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LONDON 1923

MUSTAPHA Koprulu

London 1923

isting

James Beddows

INSPECTOR FLEMING

th met un
ism and m
ds: Alexis
AT’S SHO
. His
senior died
fortunate earn him high
P
while trav
reputation ethodical analysis
A shop be
eling to Li in a train derailmen diums, spir
as
a
de
longing to
bunker of
itu
t
verpool in
mean M. Mak Alexis junior disa
holy sites, ap alists, fortune-tellers
1897, whi
ppeared fr
ryat exists
le
, prophets
Mustapha Kö
pa
in 3 Brop
om his ho
,
fastly refuse ritions, and so on. H
Each piprecülü
hy Lane,
m
e
in
e of the resu The
e has steadd
Islington.
figured with
lting m
po
of his topic to give the investigat
lic
e
od
ha
el
ve
w
ar
or
as
fo
ca
s any hint
r tonight.
ne symbo
con-the addres
as ls.doAf
inscribed a
s,
esterthth
Smith is dr
e eTutrrk
number of
ainish emba
the barrier
circui
man who re oll, an entertaining
do
ssy,
tsesonthth
to the neth as
e
e
Lo
tr
an
co
ac
d pr
nd
un
ts with relis
on
, teleph
er di
Burdened
dire
mct
(and his cl
ension colla ks
one
h the clever ecise
with his fa
everer expo
d ps
ther’s sour or y, an
deceits
. the
aseddo
peated man
su
pr
re
ce
et
s)
gu
s,
en
m
of charlata
y of his fa
ders. Laught
any
es to thend
son rens and
ther’s id
bert inadve
on
mistakesLo
“There prov er is general and on
rtently sum Bu
Now Al.-The Antique
r’s Gui. de
go
e
monedyeba
in
train itself,
to
g.
be, however
lists it; ch
voice turn
ck the orig
an
,” and here
ecking
s serious,
ith So
al
into and ou d was sweptwup
th y’s in
his
“cat
phenomen
ord any es
t of existen lis by it aseb
it flashe
on offering egories of repetitious
heth
tabce over
track set-up
d eaulectio
no simple
I refer to th
ngthnof
hothuse e coul
. Then trai
elucidation.
e ‘poltergei
n an
un
d
al
d co
so
sonveva
r ni
st,’ to the ‘tr
suddenly fi
thsh
e re
edfe
. rence.Beddows, the
nds himself
aveler’ who
faithful and
In Islingt
do
miles or ye
devoted butle
on, neighb
ars from w zens or thousands of
r to Professo
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shopkeeper
oring
he
be
re he stood
r Smith
fore, and to
s say thatBook
moments
the sh
2 op
is run by an
tonight conc the ‘haunting.’ My
presentatio
erns the last
old Turk, w
n
.
ho just
a few days
ago closed
it and
has not
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Horror

Randolph Alexis

Arthur Butter

London 1893
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is modeled
ma
on the Lond
is placed on tter which way the mo
s of 1897. In
on
the tracks,
del train
that year, an -Liv- coac
nor in wh
hes are ho
e cost of ma
ex
at order th
oked togeth
ny lives. Th press der.
e
er behind
Nothing ha
e details
crash can
th
e tenpp
be found in
ens until
inscribes 1D
the model
newspariod or in
50 circuits
tra
in
any good
th
of
e keeper wi
book on
s. Arthur Bu
shes. The nu the course, or as
tter can rel
forth the ph
mber need
ate the
talking ab
an
ed to call
out this tra
summoning tom train can differ
in wreck
with every
.
Once the mo
erailed no
del train ha
rthwest of
nu
mb
s run the ne
er of courses
London
rcumstances
eded
, the real tra
, and the
toy is a rep
in of which
engine,
lica
first two ca
the
rriages we
be prevented inevitably arrives,
re nevand cannot
or delayed
the river in
. If the spell
of doors, th
which they
is cast out
e entire Do
were
he remain
om Train
ing carriag
doors, the
appears; ines were
physical lim
ver one hu
itations of
which the
ndred peop
th
train is su
le were
Police and
mmoned de e room in
dimensions
railw
termine th
of the Ga
out anarchis ay investiga- tra
e
te
and the am
in segment
t involvem
ount of
visible at an
ent, ve
e disaster
sti
y one time.
was ever sh
The inown. po gator acting as summ
nd nothing
on
ints. The co
to recover,
mplete descr er loses 3 magic
but is
high from
found near
iption of th
unusual rai
to Randolp
e spell
ns; the
at the missi
h Alexis’ sta
end of this
ng coaches
tistics at
ch
ha
ap
d
eam. An un
ter.
Shimmerin
named offi
g track an
cial large
d
the
locomotive
in a gatherin shunting of a
g cloud of
steam
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Mrs. Grim

Orient express 1893

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Karla minkoff

Orient express 1893

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Henry Stanley

London 1893

t Expre

he investiga
tors
In the dream
summoning destroy the train set
:
the Doom
Arthur Butter
and curse
is a
Train, the
d occupant
machinist.
s must co
ander in
ntinanother dim
ension. Th
unt the inv
eir
estigators
who particip
ey see the
attrain night
ly in
nr y Stanle
observed tha
y is glimpsed dreams in
t seventy-od
in
ming. Each
least, were
d ton locom
night the dr one winunlikely to
otives, at
eamer loses
Sanity until
drift down
dr
ift anywhe
driven int
stream or
re, but there
o madness
ay to stop
to
are those wh
. supernatural
this is to bu
o find the
in everythi
ild
any good
ng. The ma
and was for
medium or a second
tter rested,
gotten.
mystic will
ereign to ad
vise.

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elizabeth meyers

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Julius Smith

London 1893

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Bentley Burnham

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Hieronymus menkaph

London 1893

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Dr Niels Hobbs

Orient express 1893

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Henri Peeters

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kapok

Orient express 1893

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Count razumosky

LONDON 1923

MEHMET MAKRYAT
age was in
sufficient
to cause
electrocut
ion. Still,
to be absolutely su
re, the set,
in
ing the tra
ck, has been cludpassed
on for expe
rt examinati
the London
on to
Train Spot
Associatio
n, in the pe ters’
rson of
Arthur Bu
tter, presid
ent.
sergeant ca
n supply M The
r. Butter’s addres
s if reques
ted. In
any case, th
e train set
is part
of the Stan
ley estate;
ow
ship of it
devolves to nerley’s heirs
Stan, whomev
er they
might be.

THROUGH

THE ALPS

If the Cred
it Rating
fail, Butte
rolls
r still offer
s to let
them use it
in his basem
ent.
If the investi
gators have
this point
by
booked th
eir tic
ets aboard
the Simplon k-Orient Express
, or have de
cided to
travel upon
it and tell
him so,
Butter chee
rs up, and
proceeds
to wax ra
pturous ab
ou
t the
wonders of
such a trip,
overcome with
enthusiasm
Mrs. Atkins
awed envy
and
. If the Cr
edit Rating rolls fai
led before,
he now
ign
or
es
his own pe
and forces
the train se
rceptions,
The headqu
t on them.
is to be an
arters of th
Further, th
Association
e associatio
ere
Butter’s ho
dinner this
he strongly
n is in Arth
me in Cam
evening, an
invites the
ur
berwell. He
man, upse
d
investigato
be lots of th
t about th
rs. “There’
ings to learn
e disappea is a friendly
sible death
ll
rance and
about train
of Henry St
poss,” he says.
anley. “Mr.
quiet and lik
Stanley wa
able chap,
Stanley's roo
sa
and a longti
of the Asso
m.
me membe
ciation.”
r
Butter mak
es
a face if aske
set. He say
d
ab
out the tra
s that he ra
in
n the beau
for a mom
tiful set on
ent, to satis
ce,
fy the polic
reminds hi
e, but that
m of Henr
it
y
Stanley, an
him no plea
d that allow
sure of it.
s
“Actually,”
in rather po he says tentatively,
“the set is
or taste; th
e model de
tual train
which wrec
picts an ac
ked in ‘97
pool run, wi
on
th great los
s of life.” Bu the Liverthink that
Stanley kn
tte
r does not
ew this. “H
for the auth
e
ha
d a keen ey
en
e
tory, if you tic, but not much in
terest in hi
di
sgeous mod vine my sense, gents.
el, even for
It is a gora
pound sterli
Butter has
ng.”
put the se
ing against
t in his ce
the wall. If
llar, leanceive a su
the investi
ccessful Cr
ga
tors reedit Ratin
them, Butte
g roll amon
r offers to
g
all
the model
train and tra ow them to borro
w
ck. “Might
something,
be you’ll find
pe
when the po rhaps. As for me, I’l
l be please
lic
d
arrangemen e call round for it.”
Make what
ts
reasonable. of custody the play
ers will find

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Constance atkins
Lo n d o n Tra in -S

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Mathew Pook

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Aileen Macgregor

Book 2

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scott myers

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Countess razumosky

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