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Blood on the Tracks: Railway Mysteries
by Martin Edwards
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
Blood on the Tracks -- edited by Martin Edwards, as usual for the British Library Crime Classics series -- is a collection of stories on an apparently very specific theme: railway mysteries. And yet there's plenty, and several novels as well that one can point to (more than one by Agatha Christie alone, as I recall!), so it's definitely a worthy theme.
As ever, there were some stories that spoke more to me than others, but overall it's a collection I enjoyed, including the Holmes pastiche by Knox (despite being often wary of Holmes pastiches). Reading E. Bramah's story featuring Max Carrados made me almost resolve to write to the lecturer back at university who refused to include more diverse characters like disabled detectives/characters in the course material ("what's next, animal detectives? This would be really scraping the barrel") -- Max Carrados being, of course, totally blind. These collections are really fun for how they dig for forgotten stories and bring them back to light.
Overall, one of the most fun collections; not just interesting because I'm interested in the genre, but with stories I enjoyed in and of themselves.
As ever, there were some stories that spoke more to me than others, but overall it's a collection I enjoyed, including the Holmes pastiche by Knox (despite being often wary of Holmes pastiches). Reading E. Bramah's story featuring Max Carrados made me almost resolve to write to the lecturer back at university who refused to include more diverse characters like disabled detectives/characters in the course material ("what's next, animal detectives? This would be really scraping the barrel") -- Max Carrados being, of course, totally blind. These collections are really fun for how they dig for forgotten stories and bring them back to light.
Overall, one of the most fun collections; not just interesting because I'm interested in the genre, but with stories I enjoyed in and of themselves.