Blood on the tracks
By: edited and introduced by Martin Edwards
Contributors: British Library
Edition: First US trade paperback edition.
Series: British Library crime classics; British Library crime classics
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9781464209697
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories
Description: "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."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: "Railway mysteries"--Cover.

"Published by Poisoned Pen Press in association with the British Library"--Title page verso.
Table of contents: title: The man with the watches  -- Arthur Conan Doyle; title: The mystery of Felwyn Tunnel  -- L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace; title: How he cut his stick  -- Matthias McDonnell Bodkin; title: The mysterious death on the underground railway  -- Baroness Orczy; title: The affair of the corridor express  -- Victor L. Whitechurch; title: The case of Oscar Brodski  -- R. Austin Freeman; title: The eighth lamp  -- Roy Vickers; title: The knight's cross signal problem  -- Ernest Bramah; title: The unsolved puzzle of the man with no face  -- Dorothy L. Sayers; title: The railway carriage  -- F. Tennyson Jesse; title: Mystery of the slip-coach  -- Sapper; title: The level crossing  -- Freeman Wills Crofts; title: The Adventure of the first-class carriage  -- Ronald Knox; title: Murder on the 7.16  -- Michael Innes; title: The coulman handicap -- Michael Gilbert.