Mentre l’espresso per Parigi sta per arrivare a destinazione, una macabra scoperta sorprende i passeggeri: l’uomo che occupa la cuccetta 7 è stato brutalmente ucciso. E il colpevole deve essere per forza uno degli occupanti dello scompartimento.Tutti i passeggeri vengono tenuti in isolamento mentre il commissario capo della Sûreté cerca di venire a capo di un intrigo in cui niente è come sembra...Prima che Agatha Christie ambientasse sull’Orient Express il suo romanzo più famoso, il giallo per eccellenza d’ambientazione ferroviaria era "L’espresso per Parigi", del militare britannico Arthur Griffiths.

The Rome Express is a locked room murder mystery with a twist. This time the locked room is a sleeping-cab on a moving train! Featuring the formidable French detective Monsieur Floçon, this Agatha Christie-esque mind-bending locomotive whodunit is a must-read for fans of classic British mysteries.

The Rome Express, the direttissimo, or most direct, was approaching Paris one morning in March, when it became known to the occupants of the sleeping-car that there was something amiss, very much amiss, in the car. Arthur George Frederick Griffiths (9 December 1838 – 24 March 1908) was a British military officer, prison administrator and author who published more than 60 books during his lifetime. He was also a military historian who wrote extensively about the wars of the 19th century, and was for a time military correspondent for The Times newspaper