City Of Ghosts (A Miranda Corbie Mystery) - Plot & Excerpts
Pride of Southern Pacific but jointly owned by Union Pacific and Chicago and North Western, the City of San Francisco boasted both speed and the most luxurious accommodations of any train in America. In-room radio, telephone service to the sumptuous dining cars or to any connection in the country, once they pulled into a station. Stewardess-nurse, barber shop and hair salon, shower and club car, observation deck, and most of all … privacy. Top of the line were the drawing room bedrooms, suites with in-room telephones and more space than a Manhattan apartment. Each train car sported the name of a San Francisco district or landmark, from Market Street to Mission Dolores. Miranda noted Jasper’s—the Fisherman’s Wharf—as she walked down the platform toward her own. No sign of the professor himself. “Get your gen-u-ine replica of the City of San Francisco, folks, only twenty-five cents and makes a wonderful souvenir…” Hawkers selling miniature trains and SP personnel with toothy smiles lined the sides of the platform, the latter pressing menus and brochures into passenger hands, eager to dispel the aura of bad luck that still clung to the streamliner after last year’s tragic derailment.
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