Authors: David Brandon & Alan Brooke
The History Press, The Mill, Brimdcombe Port, Stroud, Glouscester GL5 2QG Tel: 01453 883300 www.thehistorypress.co.uk
ISBN: 978-0752452319
Pages: 192
Illustrations: 60 monochrome
Date: July 2010
Cover: hardback with dust cover
Size: 240x163mm portrait
Price: £16.99
Index: none
Here we have the fascinating history of railway crime in Britain. It is, as you would expect, a book heavy in words and yet still well illustrated. It covers crime on the railways from the early nineteenth century right up to the present day. It deals with everything from murder to fare evasion and includes robberies, suicides and staff 'cooking the books'. From more recent times it covers terrorism. Fictional crime on film and in literature also get an airing, including the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie. The book brings together railway history with social history, which are inseparable, as one serves the other.