- A disagreeable woman vanishes from a moving train, later found slain, with a scared girl in possession of her jewelry. Miss Fisher aims to help, much to Insp. Robinson's professional annoyance.
- Phryne Fisher, accompanied by her new maid Dot, finds her journey on the Ballarat Train interrupted when their rail-car is gassed with chloroform. Phryne offers her detective skills to solve the case of a young amnesic girl and the murder of a fellow passenger.—L. Hamre
- Miss Fisher and her maid Dot Williams are traveling on the train to Ballarat when they rescue a young woman in the next compartment, Eunice Henderson, from a chloroform-soaked cloth. Her mother, Mrs. Henderson, seems to have vanished however. Much to DI Jack Robinson's regret, Miss Fisher seems intent on helping him out and they soon find the missing woman hanging from the water tower where the train had stopped earlier. The dead woman had exchanged harsh words with another passenger, Andy Cotton, who blames her for the death of his wife who died during childbirth when Mrs. Henderson was a hospital matron. When the local police find a young girl, Jane - who somehow came into possession of Mrs. Henderson's jewels - Miss Fisher takes her in, certain that she knows far more than she is telling.—garykmcd
- The glamorous Phryne Fisher, accompanied by her maid Dot, decides to travel to the country by train to collect her new Hispano-Suiza motor car. The charm of rail travel soon evaporates though, when Phryne unexpectedly has to use her trusty pearl-handled pistol to save a young woman's life and solve the disappearance of her fellow passenger's mother. Her train trip derailed by a gruesome murder, Phryne speeds home in her Hispano-Suiza to her new abode in St Kilda where she works through the clues until she discovers her unassuming murderer.
- * Phryne and Dot travel by train to Ballarat, to collect Phryne's new Hispano-Suiza car. During the journey, they awaken unconscious Eunice Henderson, who was drugged with a chloroform-soaked cloth, while her bully mother, Mrs. Henderson, seems to have vanished, so they pull the emergence break. They soon discover Mrs. Henderson hanging from a water tower where the Ballarat Train had earlier stopped. Henderson had an argument with passenger Andy Cotton, who blamed her for the death of his wife, who died during childbirth when Mrs. Henderson was a hospital matron. Later, scared young orphan girl Jane is found in possession of Mrs. Henderson's jewels. Returning home to her new residence in St Kilda, Phryne analyzes the clues to discover the murderer.—KGF Vissers
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