Hercule Poirot sets out to solve the murder of an American businessman stabbed to death aboard the luxury train, the Orient Express, snowbound in the middle of Europe.

When he is sent home alone for misbehaving in church, Tommy discovers that his house is a station on the Underground Railroad.

Brief text and illustrations trace the journey of a colorful train as it goes through tunnels, by cities, and over trestles.

When Miss Katherine Grey unexpectedly inherits a small fortune, she books the famous Blue Train for a trip to the French Riviera. Her new milieu includes millionaire Ruth Kettering, Ruth's estranged husband, a French mistress, and an inquisitive foreign man with an egg-shaped head and waxed moustache. But Nice is not so nice, for on arrival the gendarmerie asks Miss Grey to ID the strangled body of one of the pampered passengers--and for the great...

While on a journey from Chicago to San Francisco on the California Comet with his uncle, amateur sleuth Hal Beck stumbles into a mystery when the daughter of a billionaire tech entrepreneur goes missing.

A luxury trip aboard a train through scenic British Columbia with a friend and his railroad association brings Jessica Fletcher face to face with murder when a member of the entourage dies after a sip from an all-too-potent Bloody Mary.

McBride's short stories joyfully abound with indelible characters whose personal philosophies are far wiser than their circumstances allow, including the teenage members of the inner-city Five Carat Soul Bottom Bone Band--Buck Boy, Ray-Ray, Blub, and Goat. Then there's the lion, jaguar, and whale in "Mr. P & the Wind.? A fierce loyalty forged on an Italian battlefield during WWII unites Carlos, Lillian, and the Judge in a Harlem ballroom in "The Christmas...