{"product_id":"bodies-in-transit-true-crime-stories-of-railway-murders-canal-killings-and-road-crimes-from-victorian-britain-to-the-present-day-9798196218057","title":"Bodies in Transit: True Crime Stories of Railway Murders, Canal Killings and Road Crimes from Victorian Britain to the Present Day","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Julian Maddox\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Criminals \u0026amp; Outlaws\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBritish true crime history told through railway murders, canal killings, river bodies and road crimes - from Victorian Britain to the modern commuter age.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBodies in Transit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is a dark, documentary collection of fifteen true crime cases about the journeys that became crime scenes: sealed railway compartments, canal boats, left-luggage offices, bridges, tunnels, country lanes, burning cars and the dangerous last mile home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the first railway murder of Thomas Briggs and the Brighton Line Murder to the Thames Torso Murders, the Green Bicycle case, the Blazing Car Murder, the A6 Murder and the Railway Killers, Julian Maddox examines how Britain's transport systems changed murder - and how investigators learned to read movement as evidence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Victorian railway made strangers intimate. The river made bodies anonymous. The road made escape imaginable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are not simple tales of killers and victims. They are cases of mobility, concealment, class, forensic uncertainty, public fear, media manhunts, contested verdicts and unsolved murders. Some ended at the scaffold. Some ended in acquittal. Some still refuse to close.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInside you'll discover: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRailway murders and sealed-compartment crimes that terrified Victorian and Edwardian Britain\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCanal and river killings where water was used to conceal the dead - and repeatedly failed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRoad crimes, bicycle murders, burning cars and the modern commuter-route attacks of the Railway Killers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnsolved cases, wrongful conviction controversies and acquittals that still refuse to settle\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReal forensic science - fingerprints, entomology, DNA - and the cases that pushed detection forward\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAtmospheric, precise and deeply unsettling, \u003ci\u003eBodies in Transit\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how Britain built systems to move people faster - and how murderers learned to move bodies, stories and suspicion through those same routes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47892858765463,"sku":"9798196218057","price":1483.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798196218057.webp?v=1781189471","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/bodies-in-transit-true-crime-stories-of-railway-murders-canal-killings-and-road-crimes-from-victorian-britain-to-the-present-day-9798196218057","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}