Terror by Night

A train to Scotland carrying Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson and Inspector Lestrade is the scene of a puzzling jewel theft and murder. Director, Roy William Neill. Starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce.

In London, Vivian Vedder (Renee Godfrey) verifies that a carpenter has completed a coffin for her recently deceased mother's body. She boards the train that evening, as do Lady Margaret Carstairs (Mary Forbes), who owns and is transporting the famous Star of Rhodesia diamond. Holmes is pushed out of the train, nearly to his death, but he climbs back inside and discovers a secret compartment in the coffin carrying Miss Vedder's mother. Holmes suspects that one of the people on the train is the notorious jewel thief Colonel Sebastian Moran.