The Burlington Northern was speeding through Iowa when passengers spotted six Indians riding alongside in pick-ups. Suddenly they began firing, a bullet pierced the dining car window and millionaire Harold Chaney was dead. When railroad detective Jake Hatch met the train at Osceola, the Indians were already in custody. They had confessed to getting drunk and riding out "to kill the Iron Horse." And that seemed to tie up the case. But Hatch was turning up loose ends. There was Chaney's business partner. A hotly contested takeover bid. Plus an emerald ring that led to two mistresses, a straying wife, and one very angry daughter. With so many fine suspects, Hatch needed hard evidence fast - before the Indians got railroaded into prison, and someone got away with murder.
