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{{Short description|1953 story collection by Edmund Crispin}}
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| author =  [[Edmund Crispin]]
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| country = [[United Kingdom]]
| language = English
| series = [[Gervase Fen]]
| genre = Detective
| publisher =[[Victor Gollancz Ltd|Gollancz]]
| release_date = 1953
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| media_type = Print
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| preceded_by =[[The Long Divorce]]
| followed_by = [[The Glimpses of the Moon (Crispin novel)|The Glimpses of the Moon]]
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'''''Beware of the Trains''''' is a collection of [[detective novel|detective]] [[short stories]] by the British writer [[Edmund Crispin]] published in 1953.<ref>Reilly p.394</ref> It contains sixteen stories including ''Beware of the Trains'' which gave its title to the collection. They all feature Crispin's [[amateur detective]] and [[Oxford University|Oxford]] [[professor]] [[Gervase Fen]], an eccentric with a genius for solving complex cases. A number also featured [[Detective Inspector]] Humbleby of [[Scotland Yard]] who also appears in two of the novels in the Fen series. Apart from one they had all previously appeared in the ''[[Evening Standard]]'' newspaper.<ref>Whittle p.139</ref> It was the last work featuring Fen for many years, until Crispin returned to the character for the 1977 novel ''[[The Glimpses of the Moon (Crispin novel)|The Glimpses of the Moon]]''.<ref>Reilly p.395</ref>
==Stories==
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* ''Beware of the Trains''
* ''Humbleby Agonistes''
* ''The Drowning of Edgar Foley''
* ''Lacrimae Rerum''
* ''Within the Gates''
* ''Abhorred Shears''
* ''The Little Room''
* ''Express Delivery''
* ''A Pot of Paint''
* ''The Quick Brown Fox''
* ''Black for a Funeral''
* ''The Name on the Window''
* ''The Golden Mean''
* ''Otherwhere''
* ''The Evidence for the Crown''
* ''Deadlock''
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==References==
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==Bibliography==
* Reilly, John M. ''Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers''. Springer, 2015.
* Whittle, David. ''Bruce Montgomery/Edmund Crispin: A Life in Music and Books''. Routledge, 2017.
[[Category:1953 short story collections]]
[[Category:Mystery short story collections]]
[[Category:Novels by Edmund Crispin]]
[[Category:Victor Gollancz Ltd books]]
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