On Sunday morning, June 29, 1919, a group of people assemble at the Boulder
depot for a trip into the mountains on the Switzerland Trail of America
railroad, unsuspecting what lies in store for them. During the journey into the
mountains, past relationships and negative feelings between passengers become
apparent. After a lunch stop at the mountain destination, everyone returns to
the railroad car for the journey back down the mountain—except for one
passenger, who arrives only as the train is leaving. He staggers in through the
back door of the railroad car, points toward the others and shouts “You
assassin!” before collapsing in the aisle, dead from a knife wound. Off-duty
police officer Harry McBride is determined to solve the murder before the train
returns to the Boulder station. Armed with motives from the earlier
conversations, he sorts through suspects to find the killer. This historical
mystery novel provides a snapshot of the city of Boulder, Colorado, and its
narrow-gauge railroad in the early years of the twentieth century.
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