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Last week Jean Williams told us about her Great Train Mystery.
In 1946, four women are sitting on a train in York station when a young woman burst into the carrriage...
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We asked you to tell us what you thought had happened to the girl, and why she was so distraught. It set your collective imaginations going. The winner of the packet of Bourbon biscuits we generously offered for the best explanation goes to Dr J Watson aka Stuart Hyett from Stratford Upon Avon with this excellent piece of deduction:
The Case of the Girl
on the Train
10.00am 23rd April 2005. Holmes switched off the wireless and reached for a pipe."A two pipe problem" he muttered.
"What? How to pull a face like a fig roll?"
"No, Watson", scowled Holmes making a grimace for all the world like an oily chocolate bourbon, "The girl on the train."
Holmes was silent for twenty minutes. He lit a second pipe, "There's a cover up at least, if not criminal activity. Let's accept the evidence of the narrator, The girl was flustered - the more so when faced with four staring women on "falling" into the train. She gathers her wits and comes out with a fantastical story. She gives detail upon detail of her job on the railways and then refers to a telegram purporting to tell of her own demise. She is given a note of the addresses of all four of the women. My suspicions are aroused. She didn't produce the telegram, the very piece of evidence that anyone else would carry with them. She doesn't give her own address and, of course, doesn't contact the four interrogators.
"Obtain a copy of the York Gazette for that week Watson and I'll wager there's an unsolved crime bearing all the hallmarks of an expert female criminal mind. Now then, this business of the fig roll...."
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