The Man from the Train The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery

Bill James, Rachel McCarthy James, John Bedford Lloyd

eAudio - 2017

An Edgar Award finalist for Best Fact Crime, The Man from the Train is an "impressive...open-eyed investigative inquiry wrapped within a cultural history of rural America" (The Wall Street Journal). In this groundbreaking work of historical true crime, legendary statistician and baseball writer Bill James applies his analytical genius to crack an unsolved century-old mystery surrounding one of the deadliest serial killers in American history.Between 1898 and 1912, families across the United States were brutally murdered in their sleep with the blunt side of an axe. Valuables were left untouched, bodies were staged, and faces covered. Some cases, like the infamous Villisca Axe Murders in Iowa, gained national attention—but few be...lieved the crimes were connected. Fewer still noticed that every family lived within walking distance of a train line. Digging through thousands of newspapers, court transcripts, and public records, James and his... more