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The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery by Bill James, Rachel McCarthy James
5 reviews
nilyov's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Child death, Sexual violence, Racism, and Murder
juliana18's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Violence, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Racism, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Blood
Moderate: Stalking, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Ableism, and Police brutality
bibrarian_'s review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Sexual violence, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Child abuse, Child death, Racism, and Pedophilia
hanarama's review against another edition
3.25
• Conversational tone
• Compelling
The Bad:
• Circumstantial
• Large volume of cases
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I did enjoy reading this book. The light and conversational tone makes the individual chapters easy to follow. It feels more like listening to a friend tell you about something they've just learned rather than reading book. And I think that is a large part of why the evidence and theory presented feels so compelling. The authors are very convincing in their argument.
Despite this though, a large amount of what they present feels entirely like circumstantial conjecture. Especially after they have named their suspect.
And I suspect that this has to do with the sheer number of crimes that they describe over the course of the book. So many that it becomes difficult to remember them all. And in the end, only about 1/3 are ascribed with full confidence to the Man from the Train. I would have liked for these cases to be examined more in depth and left those more questionable cases to side notes. I feel like it may have allowed for the theory to feel more concrete.
In the end, I do feel convinced by the argument that a train-riding killer was probably behind some of these crimes. However, I am unconvinced of the sheer scale of violence committed as well as if the suspect presented makes total sense
Graphic: Gore, Violence, Stalking, Sexual violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood
aconfundityofcrows's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Racism, and Murder
Moderate: Body shaming, Pedophilia, Xenophobia, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Stalking, Gun violence, Fire/Fire injury, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Hate crime, Cursing, and Religious bigotry
Minor: Physical abuse, Infidelity, Incest, Domestic abuse, Chronic illness, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship