An Edgar Award finalist for Best Fact Crime, this
"impressive...open-eyed investigative inquiry wrapped within a
cultural history of rural America" (The Wall Street Journal) shows
legendary statistician and baseball writer Bill James applying his
analytical acumen to crack an unsolved century-old mystery
surrounding one of the deadliest serial killers in American
history. Between 1898 and 1912, families across the country were
bludgeoned in their sleep with the blunt side of an axe. Jewelry
and valuables were left in plain sight, bodies were piled together,
faces covered with cloth. Some of these cases, like the infamous
Villasca, Iowa, murders, received national attention. But few
people believed the crimes were related. And fewer still would
realize that all of these families lived within walking distance to
a train station. When celebrated baseball statistician and true
crime expert Bill James first learned about these horrors, he began
to investigate others that might fit the same pattern. Applying the
same know-how he brings to his legendary baseball analysis, he
empirically determined which crimes were committed by the same
person. Then after sifting through thousands of local newspapers,
court transcripts, and public records, he and his daughter Rachel
made an astonishing discovery: they learned the true identity of
this monstrous criminal. In turn, they uncovered one of the
deadliest serial killers in America. Riveting and immersive, with
writing as sharp as the cold side of an axe, The Man from the Train
paints a vivid, psychologically perceptive portrait of America at
the dawn of the twentieth century, when crime was regarded as a
local problem, and opportunistic private detectives exploited a
dysfunctional judicial system. James shows how these cultural
factors enabled such an unspeakable series of crimes to occur, and
his groundbreaking approach to true crime will convince skeptics,
amaze aficionados, and change the way we view criminal history.
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