Blood on the tracks

Blood on the tracks

Book - 2018

"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, featurin...g some of the most popular authors of their day alongside less familiar names."--Provided by publisher.

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Subjects
Detective and mystery stories.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Short stories.
Genres
Detective and mystery fiction
Short stories
Published
Scottsdale, Arizona : Poisoned Pen Press [2018]
Language
English
Corporate Author
British Library
Corporate Author
British Library (-)
Edition
First US trade paperback edition
Item Description
"Railway mysteries"--Cover.
"Published by Poisoned Pen Press in association with the British Library"--Title page verso.
Physical Description
349 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN
9781464209697
  • The man with the watches / Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The mystery of Felwyn Tunnel / L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace
  • How he cut his stick / Matthias McDonnell Bodkin
  • The mysterious death on the underground railway / Baroness Orczy
  • The affair of the corridor express / Victor L. Whitechurch
  • The case of Oscar Brodski / R. Austin Freeman
  • The eighth lamp / Roy Vickers
  • The knight's cross signal problem / Ernest Bramah
  • The unsolved puzzle of the man with no face / Dorothy L. Sayers
  • The railway carriage / F. Tennyson Jesse
  • Mystery of the slip-coach / Sapper
  • The level crossing / Freeman Wills Crofts
  • The Adventure of the first-class carriage / Ronald Knox
  • Murder on the 7.16 / Michael Innes
  • The coulman handicap / Michael Gilbert.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Edwards's entertaining railway-themed anthology, part of the British Library Crime Classics series, contains 15 short stories mainly from authors little known today. Arthur Conan Doyle, the most notable exception, kicks things off splendidly with "The Man with the Watches," in which a "well-known criminal investigator" offers his solution to the bizarre murder of a man who was found shot in a railway carriage, which he seemingly could not have entered, with six gold American watches in his pockets. Others introduce worthy sleuths to a new generation, such as Ernest Bramah's blind detective, Max Carrados, who cracks the mystery of more than 30 railroad-related deaths in "The Knight's Cross Signal Problem." Also noteworthy is R. Austin Freeman's "The Case of Oscar Brodksi," the first inverted detective story, in which, as Freeman once noted, "the reader knows everything, the detective knows nothing, and the interest focuses on the significance of trivial circumstances." This is the perfect volume for fans of short, high-quality, fair-play detective fiction. (July) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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