'The Lady Vanishes'

'The Lady Vanishes'

The IMDB one-liner for Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes is "While traveling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train." Echoes of Agatha Christie's disappearance? Vanishing women is a fascinating metaphor in itself, but Christie must have made her way to Harrogate by train in order to disappear and there's a fair amount of gaslighting going on on both trains.

The Lady Vanishes

The film's script was by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder, adapted from the Ethel Lina White story “The Wheel Spins” (1936). 

Original book cover, Collins Crime Club, London