Murder on the Flying Scotsman by Carola Dunn (A Daisy Dalrymple mystery #4). 236 pp.
About this point in any mystery series, unless the protagonist is a cop or a P.I., you hit the problem of the amateur sleuth who somehow keeps getting involved in murders accidentally. In this one the author has a friend that Daisy is traveling with be the person who discovers the body. That's hardly any less likely, but she distracts us by making the friend a child--the daughter of Daisy's boyfriend the policeman. The character complications make it easier to ignore the unlikeliness of the actual plot. And, of course, this uses the classic murder-on-a-train setting to get a number of suspects in one place and keep them all together.
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