Six people receive an invitation to take a train from Philadelphia to Chicago from a mysterious, unknown person. Once they board the train, which is empty except for them, they learn why: Anna Matheson. Anna is the daughter of the man who used to own the railroad and helped design the Philadelphia Phoenix. He was destroyed in WWII when one of his trains which was carrying a cargo of soldiers and weapons blew up, killing dozens of young men, including his own son, Tommy. Art Matheson went to prison, where he was stabbed to death. His wife was so distraught she killed herself, leaving Anna with the wreckage of her once happy family.
Anna's aunt left her proof that the six people on the train conspired with her father's chief competitor, Kenneth Wentworth, to destroy him and now Anna wants her vengeance.
I can't say too much more without ruining it but the ending was so logical that of course I didn't figure it out. Once it was revealed I had an "oh, yes, of course!" moment. It was a great book, very hard to put down.
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