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Book Review of The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery

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It is a warm night, often on a weekend. There is a very small town with a railroad track. He is looking for a house with no dog.. just isolated enough...a big two-story house would be best, with a family of five. A barn where he can hide until the middle of the night.... a house with a woodpile...and an axe sticking up out of the woodpile. Thus begins an excellent, well-researched account of a very prolific serial killer in U.S. in the early 1900's.