The last train
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The last train
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April 1950. Moscow Region. Bodies are being found on a railway embankment with terrifying regularity—one after another. The leading theory is that they were all passengers, and that death overtook them on the trains.
Six victims in a month.
Investigator Arkady Nikitin discovers only long-distance tickets with the dates torn off in the pockets of the dead men. But what if the real meaning lies not in what's lying in plain sight, and that the tickets aren't the route, but a red herring?
Nikitin's assistant, Lieutenant Orlov, is certain the criminal is among the conductors. Nikitin disagrees—he senses the killer is closer than he appears, that he rides regular evening commuter trains, breathes the same train station air, and knows every stop between Serpukhov and Moscow. And the worst part is, he's not finished yet.
Suspicion falls on the conductor Anna, who clearly has a crush on Nikitin. The investigator's jealous wife, Varya, makes a single visit—and the woman disappears. While the investigators search and argue, the killer again looks at the rain-slicked platform, searching for a new companion, for whom the next stop could be his last.
And the main question is no longer "who is the killer?" but... how to stop the train hurtling toward hell?
Six victims in a month.
Investigator Arkady Nikitin discovers only long-distance tickets with the dates torn off in the pockets of the dead men. But what if the real meaning lies not in what's lying in plain sight, and that the tickets aren't the route, but a red herring?
Nikitin's assistant, Lieutenant Orlov, is certain the criminal is among the conductors. Nikitin disagrees—he senses the killer is closer than he appears, that he rides regular evening commuter trains, breathes the same train station air, and knows every stop between Serpukhov and Moscow. And the worst part is, he's not finished yet.
Suspicion falls on the conductor Anna, who clearly has a crush on Nikitin. The investigator's jealous wife, Varya, makes a single visit—and the woman disappears. While the investigators search and argue, the killer again looks at the rain-slicked platform, searching for a new companion, for whom the next stop could be his last.
And the main question is no longer "who is the killer?" but... how to stop the train hurtling toward hell?
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