Word: magowan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Engineer Magowan, making his last run, with a second-rate engine in the teeth of a blizzard, swore he would get to division point on time; he drove the train recklessly through the storm. The conductor was worried. At Avondalc they had to stop to pick up a single passenger- Everett Jason, a long-repressed model husband who was methodically running away from his wife. Martin Knox, criminal lawyer, was bringing a secret star witness back East: red-headed Lena Karelsen, whose evidence would free his gunman client, smash the political ring. Three people were on Knox's trail...
True to the conductor's premonition, Magowan's mad driving was too much for the old engine: a side rod let go, flailed the engineer to death. During the long wait for the relief engine Jason and Lena decided to make a run for it to the nearest town. But a railroad detective chased them, shot Lena. Jason's dream of freedom collapsed; he knew he would go home to his wife. Knox's star witness was gone but he got his old mistress back again. The remains of old Magowan, covered with a blanket, were...