Blood on the Tracks: Fifteen Locked-Room Mysteries set on Train Tracks (British Library Crime Classics) - Softcover
Synopsis
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder
"This is the perfect volume for fans of short, high-quality, fair-play detective fiction." ―Publishers Weekly
"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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About the Author
MARTIN EDWARDS is an award-winning crime writer best known for two series of novels set in Liverpool and the Lake District. He is a series consultant for British Library Crime Classics, Chair of the Crime Writers' Association, and President of the Detection Club. The Golden Age of Murder, his study of the Detection Club, was published in 2015 to international acclaim, and won the Edgar, Agatha, H.R.F. Keating and Macavity awards for the year's best book about the genre.
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"Blood on the Tracks makes a handy book to have around when you want to read a clever mystery but time doesn't permit you to get engrossed in a novel. It can also provide a bit of nostalgia for readers in America where rail travel has declined considerably in recent years." (Popular Culture Association)
"This is the perfect volume for fans of short, high-quality, fair-play detective fiction." (Publishers Weekly)
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- PublisherPoisoned Pen Press
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 1464209693
- ISBN 13 9781464209697
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages368
- EditorEdwards Martin
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