{"product_id":"death-on-the-line-julian-maddox-9798197221681","title":"Death on the Line: Railway Murders, Station Killings and Crimes on Britain's Tracks","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTwelve murders. One hundred and twelve years. And a railway that kept running through every one of them.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the telegram that caught a poisoner fleeing London in 1845 to the Underground stabbing that 18,000 interviews could not solve in 1957, \u003ci\u003eDeath on the Line\u003c\/i\u003e is a forensic investigation into the crimes that exploited Britain's railways - and the cases the railway could not explain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach chapter opens on a single object: a single-line token handed to a driver moments before a stationmaster was shot. A book left open on a dying woman's lap. An open safe in an empty booking office. A white bundle between the rails. These twelve true crime cases span Victorian railway compartments, Edwardian station offices, and a packed London Underground platform - and each reveals how a system built for order became, in one critical moment, a system that violence could enter and use.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInside Death on the Line, including: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJohn Tawell, poisoner \u003c\/b\u003e- caught by the world's first telegraph arrest, 1845\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Netherby burglars\u003c\/b\u003e - three murderers who fled through Cumberland on the railway line itself, 1885\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Camp\u003c\/b\u003e - a woman bludgeoned in a third-class carriage, her killer never found, 1897\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLouise Masset\u003c\/b\u003e - a governess who killed her three-year-old son in a station lavatory and used Brighton station left-luggage to hide the evidence, 1899\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThomas Wells\u003c\/b\u003e - an eighteen-year-old porter who shot his stationmaster in the office and became the first man executed privately in Britain, 1868\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eWillie Starchfield\u003c\/b\u003e - a five-year-old found dead in a carriage, his father acquitted, his killer unknown, 1914\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePeter Rampson \u003c\/b\u003e- an eight-month-old thrown from a moving train, 1938\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eGeoffrey Dean \u003c\/b\u003e- a booking clerk stabbed twenty times by a fellow railwayman who used his railway pass to gain access, 1952\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFlorence Nightingale Shore \u003c\/b\u003e- a decorated war nurse, mortally wounded in a carriage, carried past three stations by a train that did not know what it held, 1920\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCountess Teresa Lubienska\u003c\/b\u003e - an Auschwitz survivor stabbed at Gloucester Road Underground station; 18,000 people interviewed, no conviction, 1957\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten with legal precision and narrative rigour, \u003ci\u003eDeath on the Line\u003c\/i\u003e treats every victim first as a person before treating them as a case. Verdicts are verdicts. Acquittals are not minor technicalities. Unsolved means unsolved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor readers of The Dublin Railway Murder, Mr Briggs' Hat, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, and The Five.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeath on the Line\u003c\/i\u003e is Book 2 in the \u003cb\u003eBodies in Transit\u003c\/b\u003e series by Julian Maddox.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Julian Maddox\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798197221681\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/16\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d","brand":"Julian Maddox","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48801540702463,"sku":"9798197221681","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/death-on-the-line-julian-maddox-9798197221681","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}