Iris Carr is exhausted. Travelling by train from Switzerland to England she is surrounded by alien languages and situations which she finds difficult to comprehend. She is relieved, therefore, when sweet old English governess Miss Froy becomes her impromptu travelling companion. But when Iris wakes from a short sleep, Miss Froy has vanished - and none of the passengers will acknowledge her existence. Is Iris mad? Or is there some more sinister reason for the woman's vanishing act?
First published in 1936 as "The Wheel Spins" in Collins's celebrated Crime Club imprint, Ethel Lina White's novel is a classic suspense thriller. In 1938, under its present title it was memorably filmed by Alfred Hitchcock, and is now presented in this budget Kindle edition to delight a new generation of readers.