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Off The Rails

When murder throws everything off the rails.

There's something so linear and definite about a train journey 鈥� it can only take you from A to B, with no possible deviations. Except when murder intervenes, and throws everything off the rails.

This archive episode of Shedunnit was first published on 2nd October 2019.

Books and sources:
鈥擳he Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
鈥�"The Fallow Fields of Fiction" by Arnold Bennett in The Author's Craft: And Other Critical Writings of Arnold Bennett
鈥擳he Edwardian Detective: 1901-15 by Joseph A Kestner
鈥擳hrilling Stories of the Railway by V.L. Whitechurch
鈥擳he Cask by Freeman Wills Crofts
鈥擝loody Murder by Julian Symons
鈥擬asters of the "Humdrum" Mystery: Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, Alfred Walter Stewart and the British Detective Novel, 1920-19 by Curtis Evans
鈥�"A Mystery of the Underground" by John Oxenham, collected in Capital Crimes: London Mysteries
鈥�4.50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie
鈥擳he ABC Murders by Agatha Christie
鈥擳he Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie
鈥擬urder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
鈥擜n Autobiography by Agatha Christie
鈥擳he Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
鈥擲tamboul Train by Graham Greene
鈥擲trangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
鈥擳he Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White
鈥擳he Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
鈥擳he Railway Detective by Edward Marston

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