The Ghost Train
by Arnold Ridley

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Highlights

1930s Interior Set Period Costumes American Mystery

Synopsis

Mystery/Thriller Arnold Ridley Characters: 7 male, 4 female Interior Set A long running success in London and on Broadway and packed with thrills, chills and laughter.

In Maine near the Canadian border there's a legend of a phantom locomotive sweeping through a peaceful village leaving death in its wake.

Rum and narcotic runners use this and the villagers' superstition to their advantage but a not as incompetent as he seems detective clears up the mystery of the sp

Characters

Character
Julia Price

an attractive, blonde young woman, probably in her late twenties.

Elsie Winthrop

a slender, dark-haired girl in her late twenties.

Peggy Murdock

a slender, dark-haired girl in her early twenties.

Teddie Deakin

a silly-ass, foppish Englishman, in his mid-thirties, with a tiny moustache and slightly thin hair.

Saul Hodgkin

a middle-aged, rather heavy-set man of about fifty years, with iron-grey hear and almost white chin whiskers, his face heavily lined.

Richard Winthrop

a slender, brown-haired, well set up man of about forty; smooth face.

Charles Murdock

a well set up young man in his early twenties; smooth face, fair hair and complexion.

Herbert Price

a tall, slender man of about fifty; fair, bald-headed, and with a light brown moustache.

John Sterling

a well set up man of about forty; smooth face, dark, with very dark hair.

Jackson

a stocky man of about forty; fair, brown hair, smooth face.

Two Officers

middle-aged men.

Miss Bourne

a severe, spinster type of woman; raw-boned and angular; dark hair; dresses somewhat mannishly; about 50 years of age.

Publication

Publisher Samuel French
Year 2010
Binding Paperback
Pages 114
Language English
ISBN-13 9780573609329
ISBN-10 0573609322

The Ghost Train is a American mystery play written by Arnold Ridley and published by Samuel French (2010).

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