" Also in this collection of short stories, trains are dangerous places and almost never reach their destination with the same number of passengers alive when they left. "
Like every year, even if close to last Christmas Polillo Publisher has published an interesting story collection of the best writers of the Golden Age. This year the theme was chosen to train as a place of crime par excellence. If today, perhaps the train has lost much of its charm (if you choose to move over long distances?), At the dawn of the detective genre, it was still one of the most modern means of transport and dynamic symbol of speed and taste for adventure. When you think of the yellow train, immediately comes to mind Agatha Christie and her "Murder on the Orient Express" (1933), undoubtedly the most famous and original story ever set on a train. But many authors before police wrestled with Christie's and chose this environment for their adventures by the end of 1800 (in fact, three stories were published towards the end of 800, including one of Sir A. Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes). The very public Christie expressed his The Plymouth in 1923. Besides, she was a great traveler and the train always exercised a great fascination about her in preference to air and ships for its romantic charm. In fact in his autobiography "My Life" wrote: "Trains are a wonderful invention, my love forever. Rail travel is seeing nature, people, cities, churches and rivers, in short, life. "
In the stories in this collection trains used are extremely varied. The trains are privileged English course, whose names already suggest some kind of adventure: The Plymouth Express, the Cornish Riviera Express, the express of the North-Western Railways, the Brighton Line, the Flying Scots, a postal truck and a freight car Great Western Railway. Then there are a couple of adventures set in the London Underground, other trains in Boston as the American & Western and even in Argentina.
Now, my friends, I can only say: get on the train and make yourself comfortable, the killing begins.
TALES OF THE PICKING:
- Agatha Christie - The Plymouth Express
- GDH and MI Cole - A lesson on crime
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The man with the watches
- Freeman Wills Crofts - The mystery of the night espresso
- Thomas W. Hanshew - Enigma on the Brighton Line
- Edward D. Hoch - The problem of the car tightly closed
- Harry Kemelman - Nine miles in the rain
- Frank King - The body of the carriage
- Emmuska Baroness Orczy - The strange death in the subway
- John Oxenham - The murderess of Tuesday night
- Eden Phillpotts - My adventure on the Scottish Steering
- Paul Tabori - A traveler much quiet
- Victor L. Whitechurch - The picture of Sir Gilbert Murrell
Article by Martina "Palazzo Lavarda" Sartor
details of the book
- Title: Crimes train
- Author: various
- Publisher: Polillo
- Collection: The Dachshund - No 91
- Year: November 2010
- Pages: 316
- ISBN: 9788881543700
- Price: $ 14.40
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