Title: Shroud of Darkness
First published: 1954
Description: Classic British mystery/thriller with savage attacks at foggy Padington Station.  Also notable for glimpses of post-WW II London .  With Inspector MacDonald at the helm and a young beauty who reads Josephine Tey.

'They were five strangers on a fogbound train--a psychiatrist's pretty secretary, an agitated young man, a tweedy lady with a deep voice, a stockbrockerish businessman, and an eel-like "spiv." One was brutally attacked in the choking black fog in Paddington Station. Attempted murder became bona-fide manslaughter, and examination of the intimate lives of the passengers involved Chief Inspector MacDonald in a macabre game of hide-and-seek in which one man tried to find his identity and another was ready to kill to preserve the shroud of darkness that obscured his.'
Subjects: Police, Fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Suspense
Places: Great Britain, London, Devon, sheep farm, nazi Germany
Time periods: 1940s, 1950s
LC classification: PZ3.R526 Shr2, PR6035.I9 Shr2