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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. She studied creative writing at Hollins University, and her work has previously been featured in publications including Bitch , Broadly , and The New Inquiry.

The Man from the Train is her first book. James has a conversational style of writing that draws the reader in, even when he departs from murders to offer short history lessons on 19th century detectives-for-hire pretty bad , 19th century newspapers not great and mob justice truly horrifying.

Even more remarkable than the exhaustive research and addictive narrative, the [authors] actually seem to solve the case and reveal the identity of The Man From the Train.

Did they get it right? Either way, the final twist in the story—set 10 years after the Villisca murders on the other side of the Atlantic—gave me chills. This is no pure whodunit, but rather a how-many-did-he-do. The strength of the book hangs on [the authors'] diligent research and analysis connecting crimes into the closing years of the 19th century.

Even those skeptical at the outset that one man was responsibile for so much bloodshed are likely to be convinced. Images of the atrocity popped into his mind at the most inopportune times. In terms of what made Jesperson kill, Phelps categorizes him as a born psychopath who was abused as a boy, weathered a difficult marriage he fathered two children before being dumped by his wife for spending time with prostitutes , became involved with unsavory people and lashed out the only way he knew how.

As the boy created structures with building blocks, Jesperson would knock them down. Then [Jesperson] said he did not know why he felt that way. Then, an instant later, he turned it off and returned to being the psychopath that he is. Contact The Author Name required. Email required. Comment required. But even that is drying up. After all, would you want your daughter to marry Poe?

The murder of a woman and her daughter in a supposedly locked room is being investigated by the police. This rings even truer when another murder happens, this time with allusions to The Pit and The Pendulum , and the victim is another critic whose venomous feud with Poe was played out in the newspapers. The violence escalates as the killer challenges the broken-down Poe to write more stories.

The game changer is when Emily is kidnapped. The Raven depicts a Baltimore as moody and imbued in squalor as Poe himself. Baltimore also seems to be a city full of ravens. And as Poe, John Cusack, a personal favorite, slips into the mindset of a drunken, out of control Poe who has pretty much alienated everyone around him.

His devastation over how his stories are being corrupted is credible. Scriptwriters Hannah Shakespeare and Ben Livingston have clearly done their homework, loading The Raven with a multitude of details about on Poe and his work.