Murder on the Mullet Express: 1 (Three Snowbirds)

Its 1926. The West Coast Development Company is staging its biggest land deal in Homosassa Florida selling pieces of a planned city to speculators who dream of a tropical paradise. Army nurse Cornelia Pettijohn takes leave to travel to Florida with her ancient uncle who claims that he wants a warm winter home. When their car breaks down they take the local train The Mullet Express into Homosassa. By the time they arrive though a passenger has been poisoned. A second murder victim boards the train later iced down with the fish. Uncle Percivals hidden agenda makes him the sheriffs prime suspect. Cornelia and Teddy Lawless a twenty-year-old flapper in a body pushing sixty must chase mobsters and corner suspects to dig her uncle out of the hole hes dug for himself.