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This page lists a selection of railway related crime fiction anthologies.

Crime on the Lines. An Anthology of Mystery Short Stories with a Railway Setting

Editor: Bryan Morgan

1975

The contents are:

• The Signalman (Charles Dickens)
• How He Cut His Stick (M McDonnell Bodkin)
• The Adventure Of The Bruce-Partington Plan (Arthur Conan Doyle)
• The Case Of Oscar Brodski (R. Austin Freeman)
• Sir Gilbert Murrell's Picture (Victor L. Whitechurch)
• The Eighth Lamp (Roy Vickers)
• The Mystery Of The Sleeping-Car Express (Freeman Wills Crofts)
• Crime On The Footplate (Freeman Wills Crofts)
• Beware Of The Trains (Edmund Crispin)
• The Very Silent Traveller (Paul Tabori)
• Mr. Duckworth's Night Out (Michael Gilbert)
• The Garside Fell Disaster (L.T.C. Rolt)

Midnight Specials: An Anthology For Train Buffs And Suspense Aficianados

Editor: Bill Pronzini

1977

An anthology of mystery stories.

"Murder in and around trains, planes, and automobiles has always been a rich source of inspiration for mystery writers and here the boundaries are extended to their widest."

• The Signal-Man (Charles Dickens)
• The Shooting Of Curly Dan (John Lutz)
• The Invalid's Story (Mark Twain)
• A Journey (Edith Wharton)
• The Problem Of The Locked Caboose (Edward D. Hoch)
• Midnight Express (Alfred Noyes)
• Faith, Hope And Charity (Irvin S. Cobb)
• Dead Man (James M. Cain)
• Phantom Of The Subway (Cornell Woolrich)
• The Man On B-17 (August Derleth)
• The Three Good Witnesses (Harold Lamb)
• Snowball In July (Ellery Queen)
• All Of God's Children Got Shoes (Howard Schoenfeld)
• The Sound Of Murder (William P. McGivern)
• The Train (Charles Beaumont)
• That Hell-Bound Train (Robert Bloch)
• Inspector Maigret Deduces (Georges Simenon)
• Sweet Fever (Bill Pronzini)
• The Man Who Loved The Midnight Lady (Barry N. Malzberg)

Mysterious Railway Stories

Editor: William Pattrick

1984

The contents are:

• The Four Fifteen Express (Amelia B. Edwards)
• My Adventure In The Flying Dutchman (Eden Phillpotts)
• The Lost Special (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
• The Tragedy On The London And Mid-Northern (Victor L. Whitechurch)
• The Cloud-Bursters (Francis Lynde)
• The Ghost Train (Ruth Alexander)
• The Girl In The Train (Agatha Christie)
• The Fisherman’s Special (Hal Thomson)
• Swamp Train (Harry Walton)
• The Level Crossing (Freeman Wills Croft)
• The Man On B-17 (August Derleth)
• That Hell-Bound Train (Robert Bloch)
• The Last Train (Fredric Brown)

Murder On The Railways

Editor: Peter Haining

1996

"The stories in this omnibus feature some the most famous trains, the best-known fictional characters and some of the stories that have become classic films."

• Express To Stamboul (Agatha Christie)
• Crime On The Footplate (Freeman Wills Crofts)
• The Man With No Face (Dorothy L. Sayers)
• Dead Man (James M. Cain)
• Cheese (Ethel Lina White)
• A Curious Suicide (Patricia Highsmith)
• Jeumont: 51 Minutes' Wait (Georges Simenon)
• Three-Ten To Yuma (Elmore Leonard)
• The Adventure Of The First-Class Carriage (Ronald A. Knox)
• The Murder On The Okehampton Line (Victor L. Whitechurch)
• The Mystery Of The Black Blight (Francis Lynde)
• The Knight's Cross Signal Problem (Ernest Bramah)
• Once Upon A Train (Craig Rice And Stuart Palmer)
• The Rhine Maiden (Leslie Charteris)
• Murder On The 7.16 (Michael Innes)
• Murder In The Tunnel (Brian Hunt)
• A Mystery Of The Underground (John Oxenham)
• Death In The Air (Cornell Wollrich)
• The Mysterious Death On The Underground Railway (Baroness Orczy)
• Thubway Tham's Bomb Scare (Johnston Mcculley)
• The Coulman Handicap (Michael Gilbert)
• A Midnight Train To Nowhere (Ken Follett)
• Oxford Circus (Maeve Binchy)
• Drink Entire: Against The Madness Of Crowds (Ray Bradbury)
• The Riddle Of The 5.28 (Thomas W. Hanshew)
• Headhunter (Jan Carol Sabin)
• Escape To Danger (Erle Stanley Gardner)
• Death Decision (William F. Nolan)
• Broker's Special (Stanley Ellin)
• Galloping Foxley (Roald Dahl)
• The Second Passenger (Basil Copper)
• The Green Road To Quephanda (Ruth Rendell)

Crime On The Move: The Official Anthology of the Crime Writers' Association

Editor: Martin Edwards

2005

An anthology of mystery stories.

"Murder in and around trains, planes, and automobiles has always been a rich source of inspiration for mystery writers and here the boundaries are extended to their widest."

• Owl Wars (Ann Cleeves)
• One Hand One Bounce (Mat Coward)
• Revenge On The High C (Judith Cutler)
• Better To Arrive (Carol Anne Davis)
• Test Drive (Martin Edwards)
• Man Overboard (Jurgen Ehlers)
• Top deck (Kate Ellis)
• Case For Gourmets (Michael Gilbert)
• 6-5 Against (Lesley Grant-Adamson)
• Asylum (John Harvey)
• Shameful Eating (Reginald Hill)
• Vanishing Of Velma (Edward D. Hoch)
• Death Ship (Bill Kirton)
• On A Bicycle Made For Two (Keith Miles)
• Landfall (Stephen Murray)
• Gum's Goer (Amy Myers)
• Lammergeier Vulture (Christine Poulson)
• Baba's Bites (Chris Simms)
• Anniversary (Sally Spedding)
• Canal Blues (Rebecca Tope)
• Another Man's Crime (Alison White)
• Seeing Off George (David Williams)

Blood on the Tracks: Railway Mysteries

Editor: Martin Edwards

2018

"Trains have been a favourite setting of many crime writers, providing the mobile equivalent of the locked-room scenario. Their enclosed carriages with a limited number of suspects lend themselves to seemingly impossible crimes. In an era of cancellations and delays, alibis reliant upon a timely train service no longer ring true, yet the railway detective has enjoyed a resurgence of popularity in the twenty-first century. Both train buffs and crime fans will delight in this selection of fifteen railway-themed mysteries, featuring some of the most popular authors of their day alongside less familiar names."

• The Man with the Watches (Arthur Conan Doyle)
• The Mystery of Felwyn Tunnel (L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace)
• How He Cut His Stick (Matthias McDonnell Bodkin)
• The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway (Baroness Orczy)
• The Affair of the Corridor Express (Victor L. Whitechurch)
• The Case of Oscar Brodski (R. Austin Freeman)
• The Eighth Lamp (Roy Vickers)
• The Knight's Cross Signal Problem (Ernest Bramah)
• The Unsolved Puzzle Of The Man with No Face (Dorothy L. Sayers)
• The Railway Carriage (F. Tennyson Jesse)
• Mystery of the Slip-Coach (Sapper)
• The Level Crossing (Freeman Wills Crofts)
• The Adventure of the First-Class Carriage (Ronald Knox)
• Murder on the 7.16 (Michael Innes)
• The Coulman Handicap (Michael Gilbert))