Blood on the Tracks: Railway Mysteries by Martin Edwards
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

1. The Man with the Watchers - A.C.Doyle (1898) 1882 On the train London to Manchester, there were only 3 first class passengers in the carriage, all 3 disappeared but a body of male is found. His pockets containing 6 gold watches.
2. The Mystery of Felwyn Tunnel - L.T. Meade & R. Eustace (1898) In 1893 Mr John Bell is called in by Geoffrey Bainbridgee to solve the death of a signalman.
3. How he cut his stick - M.M. Bodkin. A bag of money is stolen from a junior clerk in a closed moving railway carriage and the thief disappears. Private detective Dora Myrl is asked to investigate.
4. The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway - Baroness Orczy (1901). The Man in the Corner relates to Polly the mystery of the lady found dead in a first class carriage (Read previously)
5. The Affair of the Corridor Express - V.L. Whitechurch (1912). Thorpe Hazell is asked to investigate by schoolmaster Wingrave, when a schoolboy disappears from a moving train.
6. The Case of Oscar Brodski - R.A. Freeman. Dr. Thorndyke investigates the discovery of a beheaded man found on a railway line (Previously read).
7. The Eighth Lamp - R. vickers (1916) what does signalman George Raoul see coming from the Underground Railway tunnel.
8. The Knight's Cross Signal Problem - E. Bramah. Who caused the crash that killed many, the signalman or the train driver. Blind detective Max Carrados investigates.
9. The Unsolved Puzzle of the Man with No Face - D.L.Sayers (1928).A group of people speculate on what happened concerning the dead man on the beach. One of which is Lord Peter Whimsey.
10. The Railway Carriage - F.T. Jesse (1931). Three strangers sit in a train carriage, one Solange Fontaine, a detective. what does fate have in store for them.
11. Mystery of the Slip-coach - Sapper. A man is murdered in an enclosed carriage. Standish and Inspector Grantham investigate. Is the raw egg jmportant.
12. The Level Crossing - F..W.Crofts (1933). Duncan Thwaite decides it time he killed his blackmailer John Dunn.
13. The Adventure of the First Class Carriage - R. Knox (1947) Holmes investigates the case of the missing man in a locked compartment on the train he and Watson are travelling on.
14. Murder on the 7.16 - M. Innes (1956) The body of the director is found dead on the film set inside a train carriage.
15. The Coulman Handicap - M. Gilbert. Although 24 police were involved in the operation it failed and Mrs Coulson, a fence, was still free. Can it work next time.
An enjoyable set of stories.

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