Blood on the Tracks: Railway Mysteries (British Library Crime Classics): 53

by Michael Gilbert (Author), Michael Innes (Author), Arthur Conan Doyle (Author), Freeman Wills Crofts (Author), Baroness Orczy (Author), Martin Edwards (Author), Michael Innes (Author), Martin Edwards (Editor), Arthur Conan Doyle (Author), Michael Gilbert (Author), Baroness Orczy (Author), Freeman Wills Crofts (Author), Arthur Conan Doyle (Author), Freeman Wills Crofts (Author), Victor L. Whitechurch (Author), Dorothy L. Sayers (Author), R. Austin Freeman (Author), Ernest Bramah (Author), F. Tennyson Jesse (Author), Ronald Knox (Author), Roy Vickers (Author), Matthias McDonnell Bodkin (Author)

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  2018

  $3.29

  'Never had I been given a tougher problem to solve, and never had I been so utterly at my wits' end for a solution.' A signalman is found dead by a railway tunnel. A man identifies his wife as a victim of murder on the underground. Two passengers mysteriously disappear between stations, leaving behind a dead body. Trains have been a favourite setting of many crime writers, providing the mobile equivalent of the 'locked-room' scenario. Their enclosed carriages with a limited number of suspects lend themselves to seemingly impossible crimes. In an era of cancellations and delays, alibis reliant upon a timely train service no longer ring true, yet the railway detective has enjoyed a resurgence of popularity in the twenty-first century. Both train buffs and crime fans will delight in this selection of fifteen railway-themed mysteries, featuring some of the most popular authors of their day alongside less familiar names. This is a collection to beguile even the most wearisome commuter.

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  Paperback
  2018

  $12.73

  'Never had I been given a tougher problem to solve, and never had I been so utterly at my wits' end for a solution.' A signalman is found dead by a railway tunnel. A man identifies his wife as a victim of murder on the underground. Two passengers mysteriously disappear between stations, leaving behind a dead body. Trains have been a favourite setting of many crime writers, providing the mobile equivalent of the 'locked-room' scenario. Their enclosed carriages with a limited number of suspects lend themselves to seemingly impossible crimes. In an era of cancellations and delays, alibis reliant upon a timely train service no longer ring true, yet the railway detective has enjoyed a resurgence of popularity in the twenty-first century. Both train buffs and crime fans will delight in this selection of fifteen railway-themed mysteries, featuring some of the most popular authors of their day alongside less familiar names. This is a collection to beguile even the most wearisome commuter.