Phryne and Dot take the train to Ballarat to pick up Phryne's new car.
Tropes
- Asshole Victim: Mrs. Henderson spends every moment on the Ballarat train making life miserable for her fellow passengers. Nobody seems too broken up about it when she's found dead, and half the train seems to have a decent motive to kill her.
- Cool Car: Phryne's brand-new Hispano-Suiza, which is blinged to the max and has a nominal top speed of 85 MPH in an era when most motorcars struggled to break 60.
- Hypno Fool: Bert refuses to deal with the hypnotist Mr. Merton because of Old Shame associated with this: a stage show in which a hypnotist once made him "cluck like a chook and lay an egg."
- Instant Sedation: The would-be conspirators planned to execute this with chloroform to pull off their theft, but the victim wound up overdosed. The fact that said overdose was intentional winds up being a major plot point that triggers one of the conspirators' Heel–Face Turn."You think he didn't know? Even a failed medical student would know what dose of chloroform to use."
- Thriller on the Express
- Upper-Class Twit: The lads of the Melbourne University Boat Club are all massive toffs whose major employ seems to be rowing, looking pretty, drinking, gambling, whoring, and cutting classes.
