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So he turns into a sort of horribly compelling character and one who certainly behaved in the most appalling way.

I'm Kate Winkler Dawson, a nonfiction author and journalism professor in Austin, Texas.

I'm also the co-host of the podcast

Buried Bones on Exactly Right. And throughout my career, research for my many audio and book

projects has taken me around the world. On Wicked Words, I sit down with the people I've met

along the way, amazing writers, journalists, filmmakers, and

podcasters who have investigated and reported on notorious true crime cases. This is about the choices

writers make, both good and bad, and it's a deep dive into the unpublished details behind their

stories. This week on Wicked Words, we're traveling to 1856 Ireland for a

locked door mystery. A cashier for a Dublin railway station is found dead, savagely beaten. Nothing appears to be

stolen. Can an experienced detective crack this case? Author Thomas Morris tells us the story in his new book,

The Dublin Railway Murder,

the sensational true story of a Victorian murder mystery.

Tell me how you came to write this book.

Where did you discover this story?

Well, I came across this story in a slightly unusual sideways fashion, which is that before I wrote this book, I really had no

intention of writing a true crime book at all. But what I was writing about a lot was the history of

medicine. My first book was a history of cardiac surgery. And after that, I wrote a slightly more kind of frivolous book,

which was based on a lot of stories I'd come across during two or three years' research.

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