The Dublin Railway Murder: Victorian real-life whodunnit derailed by too much detail
Thomas Morris is successful in recreating an 1850s Dublin that had been shocked to the core by a railway cashier’s violent death, but the story loses its way amid the minutiae
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The Dublin Railway Murder: The Sensational True Story of a Victorian Murder Mystery
By Thomas Morris
Harvill Secker, €20.25
On November 13, 1856, George Little, the chief cashier of Dublin’s Broadstone railway terminus was brutally murdered in his office. The hapless clerk’s throat was severed, leaving him lying in a pool of blood until his body was discovered the following day.
The door was locked, seemingly from the inside. There was no sign of ...