num_pages: 288
description: 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.
language: English
title: Blood on the Tracks: Railway Mysteries
publisher: The British Library