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Gervase Fen Oxford professor and amateur detective tackles sixteen baffling cases including the disappearance of a conductor from his train
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How acute are your powers of perception Do they begin to match those of Gervase Fen Oxford don and sleuth supremeFirst published in 1953 Beware of the Trains is a collection of sixteen short mysteries Fen must link a missing train conductor to the murder of a thief decipher cryptograms to solve the death of a cipher expert and puzzle out a lockedroom mystery on Boxing DayErudite and complex these Gervase Fen cases are classic crime at its finest plot atmosphere and anecdote bound together by Edmund Crispins inimitable wit and charm
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How acute are your powers of perception Do they begin to match those of Gervase Fen Oxford don and sleuth supremeFirst published in 1953 these sixteen short stories are classic examples of Fens crimesolving prowess A professor of English at Oxford by trade he is also an eager amateur criminologist and this leads to him becoming involved in a whole host of compelling murder mysteries His intuition uncovers the most insoluble clues whenever even the best brains in the police force are frankly baffled These stories also allow you the reader to flex your own crimesolving muscles each one contains all the clues needed to anticipate its outcome using a delicate combination of logic and common sense with a bit of ingenuity thrown in Do you dare to take them on
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Who burglarised the train heading for Victoria Station and whatever became of its conductor Did the village idiot or Mrs Foley murder the meanspirited Edgar Foley Or could the constable be responsible for the devious deed Who on earth will be able to untangle the affair of the disappearing car the black necktie and the abortive theft
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Republished for the first time since 1951 Beware of Johnny Washington is Francis Durbridges clever reworking of the very first Paul Temple radio serial using his new characters the amiable Johnny Washington and newspaper columnist Verity Glyn Includes as a bonus the first Paul Temple short story A Present for PaulWhen a gang of desperate criminals begins leaving calling cards inscribed With the Compliments of Johnny Washington the real Johnny Washington is encouraged by an attractive newspaper columnist to throw in his lot with the police Johnny an American gentleman of leisure who has settled at a quiet country house in Kent to enjoy the fishing soon finds himself involved with the mysterious Horatio Quince a retired schoolmaster who is on the trail of the gangs unscrupulous leader the elusive Grey MooseBest known for creating Paul Temple for BBC radio in 1938 Francis Durbridges prolific output of crime and mystery stories encompassing plays radio television films and books made him a household name for more than 50 years A new radio character Johnny Washington Esquire hit the airwaves in 1949 leading to the publication of this oneoff novel in 1951This Detective Club classic is introduced by writer and bibliographer Melvyn Barnes author of Francis Durbridge A Centenary Appreciation who reveals how Johnny Washingtons only literary outing was actually a reworking of Durbridges own Send for Paul Temple
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Republished for the first time since 1951 Beware of Johnny Washington is Francis Durbridges clever reworking of the very first Paul Temple radio serial using his new characters the amiable Johnny Washington and newspaper columnist Verity Glyn Includes as a bonus the first Paul Temple short story A Present for PaulWhen a gang of desperate criminals begins leaving calling cards inscribed With the Compliments of Johnny Washington the real Johnny Washington is encouraged by an attractive newspaper columnist to throw in his lot with the police Johnny an American gentleman of leisure who has settled at a quiet country house in Kent to enjoy the fishing soon finds himself involved with the mysterious Horatio Quince a retired schoolmaster who is on the trail of the gangs unscrupulous leader the elusive Grey MooseBest known for creating Paul Temple for BBC radio in 1938 Francis Durbridges prolific output of crime and mystery stories encompassing plays radio television films and books made him a household name for more than 50 years A new radio character Johnny Washington Esquire hit the airwaves in 1949 leading to the publication of this oneoff novel in 1951This Detective Club classic is introduced by writer and bibliographer Melvyn Barnes author of Francis Durbridge A Centenary Appreciation who reveals how Johnny Washingtons only literary outing was actually a reworking of Durbridges own Send for Paul Temple
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A digital copy of Wells Fargo and Co Stagecoach and Train Robberies 18701884 The Corporate Report of 1885 with Additional Facts about the Crimes and Their Perpetrators by James B Hume Download is immediately available upon purchase
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Discover information, advice, and prices for Great Train Crimes Murder and sold for 35.95 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
Murder and robbery committed on the railways have long held a special place in British criminal history Railways and trains create special conditions and opportunities for criminal acts Two legendary largescale robberies took place on the British railways the Great Bullion Robbery of 1855 and the Great Train Robbery of 1963 and these extraordinary episodes are often used as examples of the ultimate in criminal audacityBut as Jonathan Oates shows in this powerful selection of case studies most railway crime is less sensational yet in many ways more revealing He reconstructs in vivid detail some of the most memorable cases dating from Victorian times to the present day Included are cases of adults and children who were thrown to their deaths from trains decapitated corpses found beside railway lines passengers who were pushed from platforms into the path of oncoming trains and others who were stabbed shot or strangled during their journeys and were found dead on arrival The sheer variety of crimes is astonishing as are the stories that unravel behind them As he retells these sensational bizarre often ghastly tales Jonathan Oates gives an insight into the reality of railway crime His collection is a must for addicts of true crime cases and for readers who enjoy railway history
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In January 1 1885 Wells Fargo amp Companys chief detective James B Hume and special agent John N Thacker published a report summarizing the companys losses during the previous 14 years It listed 313 stagecoach robberies 23 burglaries and four train robberies but included little or no details of the events themselves focusing instead on physical descriptions of the robbers Widely circulated the report was intended to assist law enforcement in identifying and apprehending the criminals believed still to present a danger to the company The present volume revisits each crime updating Hume and Thackers original report with rich new details culled from local newspapers personal diary entries and court records
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Mystery of the Blue Train sold at 350.3 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
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This is a fantastic froggy fairy tale from the creator of And the Train Goesand Whatever Mrs Collywobbles has nothing to fear from the strange and fearsome visitors that emerge from the big dark scary wood not with her pet frog guarding the garden gate Gobble They dont hang around for long But when Mrs Collywobbles frog demands a thankyou kiss things suddenly take a surprising turn
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Find tips, reviews, and features on The Man Who Watched Trains sold for 23.86 $ , available in the Movies, TV Series category; this product belongs to and is sold by Deepdiscount.com.
Bluray edition Based on a novel by Georges Simenon this exciting tale of crime passion betrayal and murder stars Claude Rains as Kees Popinga an honest mildmannered clerk at a Dutch trading company who discovers that his employer has been embezzling money to support his mistress Mrta Torn When his boss ends up dead Popinga finds himself on the run with the cash the girl and the police in hot pursuit With Herbert Lom Marius Goring AKA The Paris Express 83 min Standard So
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Train of Powder sold at 35.49 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
Like most all of Rebecca Wests reportage A Train of Powder approaches great literature Written between 1946 and 1954 these accounts of four controversial trials explore the nature of crime and punishment innocence and guilt retribution and forgiveness The centerpiece of the book is Greenhouse with Cyclamens a threepart essay on the Nuremberg trials written with precision clarity and daring insight She also reports on two particularly brutal murder trials â one for a lynching in North Carolina the other for a torso murder in England â and the espionage trial of a British telegrapher Throughout the question of guilt inspires Ms West to feats of psychological detection wherein unerring craftsmanship and a powerful narrative sense combine to a high purpose â the pursuit of truth An astonishing book As compelling as Court TV but without the frisson of voyeurism and with the compensatory satisfactions of Wests breathtakingly lucid prose style these elegant narratives remind us of the preciousness and fragility of our right to trial by juryâFrancine Prose It is her unique magic to combine impressionism and precision as if Monet and Ingres could somehow be fused Time and again a passage begins as a sort of iridescent cloud and culminates in a diamond pointâTelford Taylor Saturday Review Rebecca Westhas raised journalism to a high art breathing into it a depth a poetry a subtlety and an understanding and compassion for human beings and their endless follies and tragedies that give it a legitimate place in contemporary literatureâWilliam L Shirer
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on The Great Train Robbery sold at 41.81 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
In teeming Victorian London where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the welltodo as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of the century Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the daring theft of a fortune in gold Who could predict the consequences of making the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of Englands industrial era the mighty steam locomotive Based on fact as lively as legend and studded with all the suspense and style of a modern fiction master here is a classic caper novel set a decade before the age of dynamiteyet nonetheless explosiveMichael Crichton wrote and directed the screen adaptation of The Great Train Robbery starring Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland
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This third book in the Cascade Mountain Railroad Mysteries series based on a page from American history follows a trio of mischievous and determined young crime solversIt is 1926 in the remote camp town of Scenic Washington and Billy Dannie and Finn have more on their minds than the upcoming Fourth of July pageant When Billy finds a mysterious burlap sack containing a threatening note he and his best friends have a brand new case to solveDoes the note have something to do with the strange unscheduled trains that are moving through Scenic The trail leads the trio to a planned railroad heist of a special train carryingraw silk worth millions from the Seattle shipyards to the East Coast textile mills But time is running out as the three friends frantically search for clues to the identity of the robber before the targeted ghost train passes through ScenicAnne Capecis fastpaced historical series offers young readers a satisfying mystery welldrawn characters and an authentic portrait of the rough and tumble life of a western camp town in the 1920s
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Hercule Poirot tracks down the truth behind the death of a mysterious woman and the disappearance of a famous and reputedly cursed jewel on a night train to the Mediterranean in what seems like the perfect crime Reissue
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Lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side in Victorian Londonand Edward Pierce easily navigates both worlds Rich handsome and ingenious he charms the citys most prominent citizens even as he plots the crime of his century the daring theft of a fortune in gold But even Pierce could not predict the consequences of an extraordinary robbery that targets the pride of Englands industrial era the mighty steam locomotiveBased on remarkable fact and alive with the gripping suspense surprise and authenticity that are his trademarks Michael Crichtons classic adventure is a breathtaking thrillride that races along tracks of steel at breakneck speed
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The Great Train Robbery of 1963 is one of the most infamous crimes in British history The bulk of the money stolen equivalent to 40 million today has never been recovered There has not been a single year since 1963 when one aspect or another of the crime or its participants has not been featured in the media and there is no sign that public interest in this subject is abatingquite the opposite in fact With the 50th anniversary approaching interest will no doubt increase even more The Great Train Robbery will examine new evidence including previously classified documents from the Metropolitan Police Home Office and Foreign Office as to why such a meticulously planned crime failed during the getaway how the establishment conspired to ensure harsh sentences how the driver of the train was manipulated and how the police investigation was mishandled and will reveal what happened to the money
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On Thursday August 8 1963 fifteen masked men stopped the night train from Glasgow to London and robbed it of 2500000 the equivalent of 41 million today It was called the crime of the century and the thieves were relentlessly pursued by Scotland Yard until half the gang were behind bars serving huge prison terms But the story did not end there First one then another escaped in thrilling style and fled abroad catching the worlds imagination and making the Train Robbers into folk heroes Thirteen years later the gang combined to tell their story and Piers Paul Read author of the bestselling Alive agreed to write it This is the classic complete and exclusive story of the twentiethcenturys most audacious crime and its even more sensational aftermath
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A brand new threeinone Poirot omnibus featuring the worldrenowned detectives adventures in France Includes Murder on the Links Mystery of The Blue Train and Death in The Clouds It seems Hercule Poirot can never escape murder Crimes motives and killers followed him across the Orient and now they have found him again but this time much closer to home MURDER ON THE LINKS An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France But he arrives too late to save his client whose brutally stabbed body now lies face downwards in a shallow grave on a golf course But whay is the dead man wearing his sons overcoat And who was the impassioned loveletter in the pocket for Before Poirot can answer these questions the case is turned upside down by the discovery of a second identically murdered corpse THE MYSTERY OF THE BLUE TRAIN When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice a guard attempts to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her slumbers But she will never wake again for a heavy blow has killed her disfiguring her features almost beyond recognition What is more her priceless rubies are missing The prime suspect is Ruths estranged husband Derek Yet Poirot is not convinced so he stages an eerie reenactment of the journey complete with the murderer DEATH IN THE CLOUDS From seat No9 Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers Over to his right sat a pretty young woman clearly infatuated with the man opposite ahead in seat No13 sat a Countess with poorlyconcealed cocaine habit across the gangway in seat No8 a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp What Poirot did not yet realise was that behind him in seat No2 sat the slumped lifeless body of a woman
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