In the early morning, a train arrives in Paris from Marseilles. Passengers step onto the platform and go about their business, but in the compartment of one of the railcars, a railway clerk discovers the body of a young woman. Who needed to settle accounts with Mademoiselle Georgette Thomas? What secrets are the passengers of the unfortunate compartment keeping from justice? And why do all the fellow travelers of the murdered girl die one after another, barely managing to give testimony to the police? “The Compartment of the Suicide Squad” is the first novel by the acclaimed master of psychological detective stories, Sébastien Japrisot—this book in 1962 introduced the world to the name of the future classic of the genre.