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Blood on the tracks / edited and introduced by Martin Edwards.
Van Pelt Library PR1309.D4 B58 2018
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Mystery Blood
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- British Library crime classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Detective and mystery stories.
- Genre:
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 349 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- First US trade paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Scottsdale, Arizona : Poisoned Pen Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- "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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- "Railway mysteries"--Cover.
- "Published by Poisoned Pen Press in association with the British Library"--Title page verso.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Rupp Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9781464209697
- 1464209693
- OCLC:
- 1041140347
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