When Private Eye Steve Ericson is asked by Dolly to keep an eye on her cheating husband Michael aboard the overnight Chicago-to-New York Express, it seems like a routine gig. But by the time the train rolls into Grand Central, the case has already gone off the rails: Michael is dead, causes unknown. Steve knows something is off-beat; anyone in the carriages could be involved - atomic scientists and beautiful women included. With the cops already eyeballing Dolly, Steve must clear her name - which wasn't all that untarnished to begin with...
Larence Lariar was best known as a cartoonist. He also wrote mysteries, creating comic book artist turned amateur sleuth Homer Bull. He published both under his own name and under the pseudonyms "Michael Stark," "Adam Knight," "Michael Lawrence," and "Marston La France."