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Railway crime fiction
This includes stories in which: the protagonists, antagonists or victims are railway workers or passengers; or a train, railway carriage or railway building, is a central element in the plot.
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Mysterious railway stories
W. H. Allen
1984
07/23/2017
An anthology of thirteen short stories including 'The lost special'.
£8.00
The excursion train
Allison & Busby
2005
01/22/2017
Two men are strangled on a Great Western Railway excursion to an illegal prize fight. The second book in the Inspector Colbeck series.
£6.00
The railway detective
Allison & Busby
2004
01/22/2017
The London to Birmingham mail train is robbed and derailed. The first book in the Inspector Colbeck series.
£10.00
Inspector Colbeck's casebook: thirteen tales from the railway detective
Allison & Busby
2014
01/22/2017
A volume of short stories featuring Inspector Colbeck.
£6.00
Death of a Marseilles man
Macmillan
1995
01/22/2017
Why should a stranger try and kill a private eye on a train? The ninth book in the Nestor Burma series.
£20.00
Roses, roses
Macmillan
1993
01/11/2017
A stranger on a train murders Megan Harpur on her way to telling her husband she is leaving him.
£8.00
A metropolitan murder
William Heinemann
2004
01/11/2017
A young woman is found strangled on the last train to Baker Street station.
£5.00
Blood rain
Faber and Faber
1999
01/05/2017
An unidentified, decomposed corpse is found sealed in a railway wagon on a disused Sicilian branch line. The seventh book in the Aurelio Zen series.
£4.00
Death of a train
Hodder & Stoughton Limited
1946
01/04/2017
A network of German secret agents plans to derail a train carrying vital war supplies. The twenty-sixth book in the Inspector French series.
£20.00
The Great Train Robbery
Jonathan Cape
1975
01/04/2017
Edward Pierce masterminds the theft of gold bullion destined for the British Army in Russia.
£6.00
Le crime de l'Orient-Express
Claude Lefrancq
1995
01/04/2017
An American millionaire is found stabbed to death in his sleeping berth. Graphic novel adaptation of the ninth book in the Poirot series.
£7.00
The patriots
Hamish Hamilton
1960
01/01/2017
Two ex-soldiers plan the robbery of a train carrying wages to a power station.
£5.00