On compulsory leave, Inspector Alan Grant has travelled by train to the Scottish Highlands

The dead man in an adjoining sleeping compartment is finally identified.

He'd been drinking heavily, but left an enigmatic clue of a poem scrawled in a newspaper.

But why was he heading to the Highlands?

Josephine Tey's detective mystery.

Abridged by Sian Preece.

Read by Paul Young.

Producer: Eilidh McCreadie

Made by BBC Scotland for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in March 2008. Show less