CRIME ON THE LINE Murder - Robbery - Riots - Terrorism and Many other Railway Crimes

Softcover. Murder on a train has always caused sensational headlines - especially in the days when carriages had neither lighting nor corridors. Many cases that shocked the nation are covered in this book, which takes a broad look at the fascinating and little-documented subject of crime and the railways. Apart from murder, there are gruesome assaults, grisly suicides and bizarre incidents of 'something nasty in the left luggage'. Accidents - often careless in origin and terrible in consequence - also feature as they frequently gave rise to emotively-charged trials for manslaughter. Rioting, terrorism, fraud and the Suffragette campaign are just some of the many other subjects covered. Illus. + Bibliog. and Index. 232pp. trade size softcover. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. with no creasing to covers.