The Victorian Railway Murders.
Sellwood, Arthur. Sellwood, Mary. The Victorian Railway Murders. North Pomfret, Vermont: [1979]. 160 pp. Publisher's brown cloth wth gilt stamped spine, fine in fine dust jacket with Brodart. Bookseller's ticket "Clifford Elmer Books" to front pastedown, otherwise internally clean. $20. * A thorough historical reconstruction and legal analysis of the earliest homicides committed on the British railway network during the nineteenth century. The Sellwoods utilize contemporary court transcripts, Scotland Yard files, and newspaper archives to chart iconic criminal cases that occurred within the isolated, corridorless carriages of the steam era. The narrative examines the structural policing strategies deployed before the advent of fingerprinting, the legal progression of the subsequent murder trials, and how the resulting public outcry forced Parliament and corporate railway networks to institute landmark passenger communication and security mandates.
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