"Ben Time, a locomotive engineer is on his usual train trip from Indianapolis to Saint Louis. He and his conductor find themselves held out of the railyard for an unusually long time. The delay involves the death of the train master. A railroad cop uncovers facts that lead him to exonerate the yard switch as cause of death, and instead search for a murderer of the human kind. Ben believes the engineer, being targeted as the culprit, to be innocent of the crime. Complicating the matter, the main suspect is a fellow engineer who continually derides Ben for his faith. Ben finds that in order to absolve him of the murder he needs to look into the facts and into his heart" -- Page [4] of cover.