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Shedunnit

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Unravelling the mysteries behind classic detective stories

27:12

Off The Rails

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

Find links to all the books mentioned at shedunnitshow.com/offtherails.

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Books and sources:

The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

—"The Fallow Fields of Fiction" by Arnold Bennett in The Author's Craft: And Other Critical Writings of Arnold Bennett

The Edwardian Detective: 1901-15 by Joseph A Kestner

Thrilling Stories of the Railway by V.L. Whitechurch

The Cask by Freeman Wills Crofts

Bloody Murder by Julian Symons

Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery: Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, Alfred Walter Stewart and the British Detective Novel, 1920-19 by Curtis Evans

"A Mystery of the Underground" by John Oxenham, collected in Capital Crimes: London Mysteries

4.50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie

The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie

The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

An Autobiography by Agatha Christie

The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

Stamboul Train by Graham Greene

Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith

The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

The Railway Detective by Edward Marston

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Find a full transcript of this episode at shedunnitshow.com/offtherailstranscript.

Music by Audioblocks and Blue Dot Sessions. See shedunnitshow.com/musiccredits for more details.

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