Blood on the Tracks Author:Martin Edwards (Editor) 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... more » 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 classic mysteries, featuring some of the most popular authors of their day alongside less familiar names. This is a classic short story collection to beguile even the most wearisome commuter.
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 --