The Man from the Train : The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery (Hardcover)

from SamSattler

I have been a fan of Bill James ever since I discovered his first annual Baseball Abstract back in the seventies. James has a way of looking at the same data that everyone else has and coming up with very different and unique conclusions. His work eventually led to a revolution of sorts in the wa...

from Juva

A fascinating story about a string of seemingly related axe murders that took place at the turn of the century. The murders were of entire families, typically including sexual assault young female children, and often culminated in the family homestead being set on fire. The author posits the theo...

from 5hrdrive

Okay so I'm about 80-90% convinced that they're right, but honestly I enjoyed this more for the historical info about that era of American history than whether or not all these hideous crimes were related. I highly recommend Bill James if you've never read him, he's got a very engaging style that...

from irregularreader

On June 9th, 1912, eight people, a family of six and two children visiting for the night, were murdered with the blunt side of an axe. The murder of eight people, six of them children under 12 years of age, rocked the small farming town of Vilisca, Iowa. But the Moore family were simply the lates...

from gpangel

The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery by Bill James and Rachel McCarthy James is a 2017 Scribner publication. A most unorthodox approach to True Crime, but interesting and fascinating. Right from the start, the author explains he mainly writes books about base...