THE PLYMOUTH EXPRESS AFFAIR AN AGATHA CHRISTIE MYSTERY
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 9 January 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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A young woman is found dead on a train with her jewels missing and her wealthy American father hires Poirot in London to get to the bottom of it.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to 1001 classic short stories and tales. |
| 0:34.1 | This is your host, John Hagadorn. |
| 0:36.5 | Today's story comes from the well-known |
| 0:38.4 | much-loved mystery writer Agatha Christie |
| 0:40.8 | and features her favorite Belgian detective Erkew Boaro. |
| 0:45.2 | The story, a young woman has been found dead on a train and it looks like robbery of her |
| 0:49.6 | jewels is the primary motive. |
| 0:51.9 | Her wealthy American father asks the famous |
| 0:54.0 | Paro to solve the murder and with his close friend Captain Hasties at his |
| 0:57.6 | side and Scotland Yard's chief inspector Jap in his way, |
| 1:01.0 | Paro gets busy using those little gray cells to solve it. And now our story. |
| 1:07.3 | Alex Simpson, Royal Navy, stepped from the platform of Newton Abbott into a first-class compartment of the |
| 1:13.7 | Plymouth Express. A Porter followed him with a heavy suitcase. He was about to swing |
| 1:18.7 | it up to the rack, but the young sailor stopped him. No, leave it on the seat. I'll put it up later. |
| 1:25.0 | Here you are. |
| 1:26.0 | Thank you, sir. |
| 1:28.0 | The porter generously tipped, withdrew. |
| 1:31.0 | Doors banged, a stentorian voice shouted. withdrew. and the train drew slowly out of the station. |
| 1:43.0 | Lieutenant Simpson had the carriage to himself. |
| 1:46.0 | The December air was chilly and he pulled up the window. |
| 1:50.0 | Then he sniffed vaguely and frowned. |
| 1:52.0 | What a smell there was, reminded him of that Then he sniffed vaguely and frowned. |
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