Murder On The Railways

by Peter Haining

The stories in this omnibus feature some the most famous trains, the best-known fictional characters and some of the stories that have become classic films. This anthology is a companion to "Murder at the Races".

Genres: Mystery, Short Stories, Crime, Fiction, Collections

627 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Peter Alexander Haining was an English journalist, author and anthologist who lived and worked in Suffolk. Born in Enfield, Middlesex, he began his career as a reporter in Essex and then moved to London where he worked on a trade magazine before joining the publishing house of New English Library.

Haining achieved the position of Editorial Director before becoming a full time writer in the early Seventies. He edited a large number of anthologies, predominantly of horror and fantasy short stories, wrote non-fiction books on a variety of topics from the Channel Tunnel to Sweeney Todd and also used the pen names "Ric Alexander" and "Richard Peyton" on a number of crime story anthologies. In the Seventies he wrote three novels, including The Hero (1973), which was optioned for filming.

In two controversial books, Haining argued that Sweeney Todd was a real historical figure who committed his crimes around 1800, was tried in December 1801, and was hanged in January 1802. However, other researchers who have tried to verify his citations find nothing in these sources to back Haining's claims. A check of the website Old Bailey at for "Associated Records 1674-1834" for an alleged trial in December 1801 and hanging of Sweeney Todd for January 1802 show no reference; in fact the only murder trial for this period is that of a Governor/Lt Col. Joseph Wall who was hanged 28 January 1802 for killing a Benjamin Armstrong 10 July 1782 in "Goree" Africa and the discharge of a Humphrey White in January 1802. Strong reservations have also been expressed regarding the reliability of another of Haining's influential non-fiction works, The Legend and Bizarre Crimes of Spring Heeled Jack.
He wrote several reference books on Doctor Who, including the 20th anniversary special Doctor Who: A Celebration Two Decades Through Time and Space (1983), and also wrote the definitive study of Sherlock Holmes on the screen, The Television Sherlock Holmes (1991) and several other television tie-ins featuring famous literary characters, including Maigret, Poirot and James Bond. Peter Haining's most recent project was a series of World War Two stories based on extensive research and personal interviews: The Jail That Went To Sea (2003), The Mystery of Rommel's Gold (2004), Where The Eagle Landed (2004), The Chianti Raiders (2005) and The Banzai Hunters (2007).

He won the British Fantasy Awards Karl Edward Wagner Award in 2001.

Reviews

[Jack Heath · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 Stars. A great collection. I like short stories partly because I can get a flavour of different authors in the mystery field without expending a large amount of valuable time. Don't you hate it when you end a novel with, "Lousy; I'll never get back those 8 hours of reading time." Some people don't like short stories but they remind me of half hour or one hour TV shows at the end of which you decide if you'll ever watch more of the series. Or in this case, read a full novel. Murder on the Railways is a collection of over 30 stories; no author appears twice. Many are big names in the field. Editor Peter Haining's first edition came out in 1996 and all the stories originate in the 100 years prior to that. If you like mysteries, and find those on railways and in subways interesting, this is for you! Consider some of them as locked-room mysteries. When the train is going 80K, no one can get on or off. Even when stopped, there are only so many entries and exits. I hope you enjoy them! I did.

PS: I review each story by either referring readers to my entry under its title elsewhere on Goodreads (if it was already on GR), or by adding a short review here. Where I note a lead character, the story is part of a series featuring that amateur or police detective. The numbers, 1 to 4, match the sections in the book but the 1As and 1Bs are only for clarity to distinguish each title. (Fe2025/Se2025)

1A. Express to Stamboul. Agatha Christie. Lead character: Mr. Parker Pyne. See my review elsewhere on GR. 3 Stars.

1B. Crime on the Footplate. Freeman Wills Crofts. See my review elsewhere on GR. 3 Stars.

1C. The Man with No Face. Dorothy Sayers. Lead character: Lord Peter Wimsey. See my review elsewhere on GR. 4 Stars.

1D. Dead Man. James M. Cain. See my review elsewhere on GR. 4 Stars.

1E. Cheese. Ethel Lina White. See my review elsewhere on GR. 3 Stars.

1F. A Curious Suicide. Patricia Highsmith. See my review elsewhere on GR. 5 Stars.

1G. Jeumont: 31 Minutes' Wait. Georges Simenon. Lead character: Jules Maigret. See my review elsewhere on GR. 3 Stars.

1H. Three-Ten to Yuma. Elmore Leonard. See my review elsewhere on GR. 5 Stars.

2A. The Adventure of the First-Class Carriage. Ronald A. Knox. Lead character: an imitation Sherlock Holmes. See my review elsewhere on GR. 3 Stars.

2B. The Murder on the Okehampton Line. Victor I. Whitechurch. Lead character: Godfrey Page. See my review elsewhere on GR. 3 Stars.

2C. The Mystery of the Black Blight. Francis Lynde. Lead character: Calvin Sprague. See my review elsewhere on GR. 3 Stars.

2D. The Knight's Cross Signal Problem. Ernest Bramah. Lead character: Max Carrados. See my review elsewhere on GR. 4 Stars.

2E. Once Upon a Train. Craig Rice and Stuart Palmer. Lead characters: John J. Malone and Hildegarde Withers. See my review elsewhere on GR. 3 Stars.

2F. The Rhine Maiden. Leslie Charteris. Lead character: Simon Templar aka The Saint. JH Review: It's hard to believe how popular The Saint was at one time. Charteris and others published numerous novels and short stories featuring him from 1928 to 1997. The Saint had a huge TV show in the 60s, with Roger Moore, of 007 fame, playing the lead. A spy, he is not constrained as much as the police, private detectives or amateur crime sleuths. Here, Templar is on the train up the Rhine valley to Stuttgart in Germany and thinking about Richard Wagner's Rhine maidens from the opera cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen. He enters a pleasant conversation with an older man and his teenage daughter Gretchen - a lovely Rhine maiden. They are on holiday for which the man saved diligently by working at, and investing in Voyson Plastics in Ohio. Surprisingly, the man saw the factory owner, Bruce Voyson, on the train platform earlier that same day. Then Templar reads an article in the paper about the company going bankrupt. You must read. 4 Stars.

2G. Murder on the 7:16. Michael Innes. Lead character: Sir John Appleby. See my review elsewhere on GR. 3 Stars.

2H. Murder in the Tunnel. Brian Hunt. Lead character: Ulysses Pierrot. JH Review: It's a takeoff on Agatha Christie and her Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. With an ample dollop of comedy thrown in. Later in the same year as the UK-France Channel Tunnel opened, which was May 6, 1994, the Daily Telegraph in London ran the initial part of Hunt's short story. It was the first to use the new train as a setting for murder. They asked readers to send in their solutions and later ran the last section with the correct solution. The winning entry received a free return trip on Eurostar to Paris! Now to the story - Sir Erskine Forret, a man with few friends for reasons you will easily understand when you read it, is taking the train to France. He is a Shakespearian actor and is accompanied by a literary agent named Shirley Knott-Mee! Of course the famous French detective, Monsieur Ulysses Pierrot (sic), is on the train, and of course Sir Erskine becomes the victim. Can you work out the solution before turning the last page where the author concludes the story? I can offer a free, one-way trip to Canadian Tire if it's less than a kilometre away, but unfortunately no free C.T. money, sorry. PS. I did the Chunnel about a decade ago, exciting. 4 Stars.

3A. A Mystery of the Underground. John Oxenham. See my review elsewhere on GR. 4 Stars.

3B. Death in the Air. Cornell Woolrich. Lead character: Inspector Stephen Lively. See my review elsewhere on GR. 4 Stars.

3C. The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway. Baroness Emmuska Orczy. Lead character: the Old Man in the Corner. See my review elsewhere on GR. 4 Stars.

3D. Thubway Tham's Bomb Scare. Johnston McCulley. Lead character: Subway Sam. JH Review: We start on the New York subway system just after the first world war. With pickpockets galore, hold onto your valuables. One of the petty criminals is a smaller man with a lisp named Sam, hence Thubway Tham. He was featured in more than 125 stories between 1919 and 1960. This is from 1960. Author McCulley is better known today for his 1920 novel, The Mark of Zorro. We find Sam enjoying breakfast at a small restaurant because he's fallen for a Russian émigré who is head waitress. One day, two men talking in whispers drop in to eat, and listening as best she can is Sam's friend Tilley. She discerns that the two are Russian communists planning a bombing nearby! Now Sam has something important to tell his nemesis, NYPD Detective Craddock. PS: I don't think people with disabilities should be made fun of, including those with lisps; it's probably best the Thubway Tham series ended 65 years ago. I docked a star. 2 Stars.

3E. The Coulman Handicap. Michael Gilbert. Lead character: Detective Sergeant Patrick Petrella. JH Review: The title gives the impression of a horse race; there's some truth to that but it's not a 1,000 metre dash but rather a 3,000 metre steeplechase with more than 30 obstacles before the finish. The subject of interest? A Mrs. Coulman who lives at 35 Bond Road in London. The chasers? Superintendent Palance of S Division and several of his police details including one led by D.S. Petrella. She is suspected of being the fence in a jewellry robbery, and she's extremely wary of being followed; she's on and off the underground, dashing into pubs, taking cabs at odd moments, etc. To the chagrin of his Super, Petrella recommends the long course and a most complicated way of following Coulman. You'll need to re-read a few sections to catch it all. 4 Stars.

3F. A Midnight Train to Nowhere. Ken Follett. JH review: This 3-page story ran in The London Evening News long before Follett wrote his blockbuster, Eye of the Needle in 1978. The scene is similar to something I experienced on the Toronto subway late one evening - an operating station had closed early, possibly for repairs, and my train glided past the reduced platform lights. Eerie. In my case, the doors didn't open. Subways also have ghost stations. Toronto has one; it was built 60 years ago as a transfer point to a planned line that didn't follow the anticipated route when finally built. Now it's used for movie sets! This is about a ghost station in London on the Northern Line. We're on the midnight run, the last of the day, and the train crews are not paying attention; they accidently stop and open the doors. Janet, a passenger who is exhausted and thinking she's gone too far, jumps up quickly and exits. She's going to the Euston stop and thinks she can transfer to the last train in the other direction if she passed it. But no, this is one of those ghosts and trains don't, or at least shouldn't, stop. Her problems mount. You can see Follett learning his craft. 3 Stars.

3G. Oxford Circus. Maeve Binchy. JH review: Maeve Binchy was one of the best known authors of the late 20th century. Irish. She's not known for writing murder mysteries and, when you read this 9 page story you'll find the mystery is not whodunit, rather whytheydunit. Neither railways nor the London Underground are featured; they are just means by which two women of about 40 are able to get together for lunch at a smart little restaurant in Oxford Circus in London. Linda Grey and Joy Martin. They have one person in common, Edward. From the description of him, what you can fathom from their convoluted conversation, he's truly a bastard in each of their eyes - can I use that word on Goodreads? And yes, the subject of murder does come up. I'll leave you there as I am still trying to fathom their convoluted conversation! Your challenge. 3 Stars.

3H. Drink Entire: Against the Madness of Crowds. Ray Bradbury. JH Review: Strange title, we'll get to that. Ray Bradbury was another, best-known author of the 20th century. American. Fahrenheit 451 from 1953 is his most remembered. There's no murder here but one is hinted. Nor do trains feature in the 12-pager but there's a sweaty scene describing New York subways in summer, how they almost boiled like Dante's Inferno. This was before air conditioning. I remember Toronto subways in the 1960s. We follow Will Morgan, a distressed middle-aged office worker on one such night; he stumbles off the train and into a shop near Washington Square where he meets a mysterious woman, Melissa Toad. Her door plaque asserts that she is a witch. She asks him to marry her and, in return, offers serenity and success in the face of the turmoil of Manhattan. Question #1, does he take her deal? Back to the title. It's the label on a sample bottle of elixir on the shelf outside her shop door. Question #2, does he drink it? A strange one. 3 Stars.

4A. The Riddle of the 5.28. Thomas A. Hanshew. Lead character: Hamilton Cleek. See my review elsewhere on GR. 3 Stars.

4B. Headhunter. Jan Carol Sabin. JH Review: I searched GR; I could only find one other reference to this author - it says she had a story in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in 1990. This comes from that same magazine in 1994. Someone of that name contributed to a book called Shadow People as well. I wish she was more available; she's good. The story is simple but she builds the fear quotient until it goes through the roof. The scene is late at night in one of those commuter glass cubicles alongside the tracks of suburban railways; maybe you've even sat in one while waiting for the train to or from the city. This one's at a stop on the Long Island Railroad in Nassau County near New York City. A businessman is sitting there reading a shocking story in the paper. It's headline? "Third Headless Body Found." The victims were found along this very line! Also present in the cubicle are three or four others including a homeless woman, a young woman and a young man who seems to be with her. I began to suspect all 4 of them. That's enough; I'm switching to Uber. Oops, that didn't exist back then; I'm stuck in the cubicle. 5 Stars.

4C. Escape to Danger. Erle Stanley Gardner. JH Review: I knew that Gardner wrote many more novels and stories than just those about Perry Mason, the ones which made him internationally famous. This is an example. It came out in 1960. The danger level is high for a young woman, Jane Marlow, the former secretary and assistant to scientist Frank Hardwick. This is not part of a series with a lead character or two but a young farm owner plays a vital role. Jane's employer had been found at the base of a building after doing a swan dive from the eighth floor. Suicide? Murder? With her help? The police seem to think the latter and have been following her on the continental train. She doesn't know who to trust and jumps train in the middle of nowhere. But the issue of who is reliable continues to haunt her - me too. It's good. 4 Stars.

4D. Death Decision. William F. Nolan. JH Review: I don't know what to make of this. It's from 1981. We find Leonard Bair and his two children, Michael 14 and Lucy 7, on a long trip from Missouri to Los Angeles. For the kids, it's their first experience on a train. Exciting but there's so much more. The story is filtered through the eyes of Michael, and it's far from a loving one for the young teenager. It appears that his parents separated 6 years ago as a result of her drinking and she went to live in California where she has recently died. He is very protective of his sister and resents his father for the children losing their mother. In the third decade of the 21st century, one wonders about the reasons behind her drinking. Nolan describes Michael's anger as it rises to a crescendo of emotion and violence. For me? 4 Stars.

4E. Broker's Special. Stanley Ellin. JH Review: Wikipedia notes that Marcel Berlins in The Times said, "Stanley Ellin is the unsurpassed master of the short story in crime fiction." This one appeared in the 1950s - ten pages of murder and horror. There's more than one murder. But carefully planned? It's a stunning story which demonstrates that the accolades Berlins heaped on Ellin were well deserved. Cornelius was a broker on Wall Street in New York City, and usually travelled to work and back on a special commuter train, The Broker's Special. For his kind of people. Of course it cost a little extra but he thought it was worth it. Unfortunately for his wife Claire, he came home early one day to prepare for a mid-week dinner and caught her with another man. Almost immediately, Cornelius began to plot a deadly accident. For whom you ask? Jack, read more Ellin. 5 Stars.

4F. Galloping Foxley. Roald Dahl. See my review elsewhere on GR.

4G. The Second Passenger. Basil Copper. JH Review: You might have heard of Copper (1924-2013). He has two reasonably well known crime detectives to his name, Solar Pons between 1979 and 2006 as a continuation of August Derleth's earlier work, and Mike Faraday between 1966 and 1988. Plus he wrote crime short stories with a touch of horror and science fiction; this is one of them. Peter Haining, the editor of this railway collection, uses the word "retribution" to describe it. Perfect. It's about two lawyers in the same office in London. They started as law clerks and rose to become partners in the firm. Rivals all the way with jealousy and one-upmanship featured big time. The central character is Reginald Braintree but Samuel Briggs plays the nasty almost as well. Unfortunately, Briggs had another problem; his expenses outran his income and he got caught with his hand in the till. How does retribution and the train fit in? The title is interesting as well. The motto of the Province of Ontario is, Yours to Discover. 3 Stars.

4H. The Green Road to Quephanda. Ruth Rendell. JH Review: It's from the author of the Chief Inspector Wexford series but he's not in this one. Peter Haining calls it "the most curious in the entire collection." And "evocative." First, don't ask - I don't know how to pronounce the last word in the title. In Canada, it might be one of three ways: K-fanda as in K-beck (Quebec), or Q-fanda as in pool que, or Kwe-fanda as in the first letters of queen. You choose and let me know. It's 17 pages and came out in 1981. The green road refers to the railway bed of a former commuter line that connected Finsbury Park and Highgate in London. The rails were removed years ago and it became a delightful walking trail. The narrator tells us that one of it's local users is Arthur Kestrell, an author of fantasy books in the style of J.R.R. Tolkien with The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Unfortunately, Kestrell's Kallinarth series was not as successful. Then the narrator discovers, among the flowers and bushes, a hidden entry to a branch line, a gateway to the unknown. Yes, curious. 3 Stars.

[Πάνος Τουρλής · Rating 4 out of 5]

Πολύ καλή ανθολογία πραγματικά. Κανένα διήγημα δεν είναι πεταμένο μέσα στο βιβλίο, όλα σε μια νοηματική σειρά που σε οδηγεί στο μαγικό κόσμο του αστυνομικού. Όντως το τελευταίο διήγημα ήταν το καλύτερο για να κλείσει η ανθολογία. Ένα συγκροτημένο βιβλίο που σε παρακινεί να γνωρίσεις κι άλλους συγγραφείς πλην των επιφανεστάτων. Το καταφχαριστήθηκα (και, ναι, πάλι έχανα στάσεις στο τρόλεϋ).

Στα ελληνικά από Bell το 1998.

[Δήμος Καραχάλιος · Rating 4 out of 5]

Φοβερή συλλογή με εγκλήματα στο τραίνο! Γενική εισαγωγή για τη σύνδεση των τρένων με ιστορίες μυστηρίου αλλά και εισαγωγή σε κάθε ιστορία. Ονόματα όπως Σιμενόν, Κρίστι, Χάισμιθ, Ρέντελ, Σέηερς, Κέην, Λέοναρντ, Γούλριτς κ.ά.

[Jeff Hobbs]

Read so far:

Express to Stamboul (aka Have You Got Everything You Want?)/ Agatha Christie --3
Crime on the footplate / Freeman Wills Crofts --3
The man with no face / Dorothy L. Sayers --3
Dead man / James M. Cain --3
Cheese / Ethel Lina White --2
A curious suicide / Patricia Highsmith --3
*Jeumont: 51 minutes' wait / Georges Simenon --
Three-ten to Yuma / Elmore Leonard --
The adventure of the first-class carriage / Ronald A. Knox --2
The murder on the Okehampton Line / Victor L. Whitechurch --3
The mystery of the black blight / Francis Lynde --2
The knight's cross signal problem / Ernest Bramah --3
Once upon a train / Craig Rice and Stuart Palmer --3
The Rhine maiden / Leslie Charteris --
Murder on the 7.16 / Michael Innes --2
Murder in the tunnel / Brian Hunt --
A mystery of the underground / John Oxenham --2
Death in the air / Cornell Woolrich --2
The mysterious death on the underground railway / Baroness Emmuska Orczy --3
Thubway Tham's bomb scare / Johnston McCulley --
The Coulman handicap / Michael Gilbert --2
A midnight train to nowhere / Ken Follett --
Oxford circus / Maeve Binchy --
Drink entire: against the madness of crowds / Ray Bradbury --4
The riddle of the 5.28 / Thomas W. Hanshew --3
Headhunter / Jan Carol Sabin --
Escape to danger / Erle Stanley Gardner --
*Death decision / William F. Nolan --
Broker's special / Stanley Ellin --3
Galloping Foxley / Roald Dahl --2
The second passenger / Basil Copper --
The green road to Quephanda / Ruth Rendell--4

[Anne Seebach · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great anthology! Excellently edited to successfully gel a widely varied mix of styles and periods, including a number of deserving 'forgotten' as well as well known authors - making it virtually impossible to comment on the tone. Some of the stories were definitely a creative stretch to include in a collection of railway murder fiction, but I can forgive that for an overall entertaining read. The introductions preceding each section and story are also more than usually entertaining and interesting, as well as informative. I've not only discovered a whole bunch of authors to add to my ever-growing 'to read' list, but a few interesting little pieces of railway trivia. Well worth the read.

[Graham · Rating 4 out of 5]

An eclectic collection of railway-themed crime stories from prolific editor Peter Haining. As per usual, there's something here for everyone, with stories ranging from the Victorian era through to the 1990s, and split between British and American authors. Most of the writers are famous to a greater or lesser degree. Many tales are traditional, but there are some unusual ones thrown in to spice up the mix too.

Agatha Christie's EXPRESS TO STAMBOUL typically crams plenty of plotting into a short running time, and Freeman Wills Crofts' CRIME ON THE FOOTPLATE was so popular that it inspired its own film adaptation (1929's THE FLYING SCOTSMAN). THE MAN WITH NO FACE sees Dorothy L. Sayers' Peter Wimsey tackling an unusual case from his own armchair, while James M. Cain's DEAD MAN gets into the mind of a murderer like few others.

CHEESE, by Ethel Lina White, is a favourite of mine here, in which a brave girl is used by the police as bait to catch a killer. Patricia Highsmith delivers cold-blooded murder with plenty of twists in A CURIOUS SUICIDE, while Georges Simenon's Maigret tackles a complex case in JEUMONT: 51 MINUTES' WAIT. Elmore Leonard's THREE-TEN TO TUMA has, of course, been filmed twice, but this excellent short story is better than either adaptation.

Ronald Knox's THE ADVENTURE OF THE FIRST-CLASS CARRIAGE is a straightforward Holmes pastiche, but Victor Whitechurch's MURDER ON THE OKEHAMPTON LANE is better, with all the right ingredients in the best classic tradition. Francis Lynde's THE MYSTERY OF THE BLACK BLIGHT is a hardboiled case of American crime and Ernest Bramah's THE KNIGHT'S CROSS SIGNAL PROBLEM sees blind detective Max Carrados at his best.

ONCE UPON A TRAIN is by a pair of American writers working in the Ernest Hemingway tradition, with terse writing and snappy dialogue, although it didn't grab me too much. Neither did Leslie Charteris' THE RHINE MAIDEN, a typical sort of adventure for the Saint. Michael Innes contributes MURDER ON THE 7.16, which is novel but doesn't offer much other than a twist, and Brian Hunt's MURDER IN THE TUNNEL is my least favourite of the collection, a 1990s Channel Tunnel story written as a Poirot pastiche.

Thankfully, Cornell Woolwich picks things up with MURDER IN THE AIR, in which the brilliant detective Step Lively undertakes an action-packed and surprisingly funny little adventure. Johnston McCulley's THUBWAY THAM'S BOMB SCARE is a story of red menace that hasn't aged too well, while Michael Gilbert's THE COULMAN HANDICAP is a routine police procedural. Two very famous novelists then contribute slight pieces: A MIDNIGHT TRAIN TO NOWHERE is Ken Follett's story of a woman accidentally alighting at a disused station, while Maeve Binchy's OXFORD CIRCUS has a couple of women discussing whether they should murder the man who jilted them both.

The brilliant Ray Bradbury delivers a typically evocative tale in DRINK ENTIRE: AGAINST THE MADNESS OF CROWDS, a sort of magic realism story set in a sweltering New York. Thomas Hanshew's RIDDLE OF THE 5.28 is another Holmesian style story and acceptable enough, while Jan Carol Sabin's HEADHUNTER is a brief and exciting saga of a serial killer at large on the trains. Erle Stanley Gardner's ESCAPE TO DANGER is a fine adventure about a woman pursued by a spy, and William F. Nolan's DEATH DECISION explores the mind of a child in a fascinating way.

BROKER'S SPECIAL sees Stanley Ellin delivering a story of cold-blooded revenge to good effect, and then Roald Dahl chills us with GALLOPING FOXLEY, a story of school bullying complete with his obligatory twist in the tale. Basil Copper's THE SECOND PASSENGER is another elaborate story of revenge enlivened by an unexpected denouement. The best story in the book is saved right to the end: Ruth Rendell's THE GREEN ROAD TO QUEPHANDA is an unexpectedly lyrical story of depth and beauty, of frustrated authors and their unappreciated fantasy worlds. I found it thoroughly moving.

[Athanasios Papaioannou · Rating 4 out of 5]

Μια εξαιρετική ανθολογία αστυνομικών διηγημάτων με θέμα το τρένο. Τα διηγήματα είναι σωστά ομαδοποιημένα και συνοδεύονται από πρόλογο με αναφορές στην ιστορική εξέλιξη του τρένου και των συγκεκριμένων γραμμών στις οποίες διαδραματίζεται κάθε διήγημα καθώς και με την βιογραφία του κάθε συγγραφέα...