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A Christmas Railway Mystery by Edward Marston
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Railway Detective Ser.
December 1860. Headed for the morning shift at the Swindon Locomotive works is an army of men pouring out of terraced houses built by the GWR, a miniature town and planned community that aims to provide for its employees from cradle to grave. Unfortunately, boiler smith Frank Rodman is headed for the gr ...Show more
Blood on the Line by Cornelius Garrett (Read by); Edward Marston
Category: Audio | Series: Railway Detective Ser.
The year is 1855, and on the LNWR train to London, a criminal is being escorted to his appointment with the hangman. But the wily Jeremy Oxley, conman, thief and murderer, has one last ace up his sleeve: a beautiful and ruthless accomplice willing to do anything to save her lover, including committing c ...Show more
Death at the Terminus by Edward Marston
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Railway Detective Ser.
1865. A passenger train stands ready to depart amid the bustle at York station. The flurry of passengers and porters, the swooping pigeons and barking dogs are thrown into a state of turmoil when an explosion ripsthrough the brake van of the train killing guard Jack Follis. In response to a summons from ...Show more
Fear on the Phantom Special (Railway Detective #17) by Marston, Edward
Category: Fiction | Series: Railway Detective Ser.
1861. It is Halloween and the special train steaming across the Lake District is renowned for its supernatural incidents. A fire and a disappearance make this journey no exception.
Peril on the Royal Train by Edward Marston
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: The Railway Detective Series
Spring, 1858. The route of the Caledonian Railway through the southern uplands of the Scottish countryside is disrupted by a fatal crash. Inspector Robert Colbeck and Sergeant Victor Leeming are called from the crime of London to investigate, and must contend with old enemy Superintendent Rory McTurk to ...Show more
Points of Danger by Edward Marston
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Railway Detective Ser.
Book 16 in the popular Railway Detective series
Slaughter in the Sapperton Tunnel (Railway Detective #18) by Marston, Edward
Category: Fiction | Series: Railway Detective Ser.
1862. A goods train is going through the Sapperton Tunnel when it hits a makeshift pen of sheep inexplicably set up near the exit. The animals are slaughtered by the impact whilst the train hits a pile of rocks and is derailed, seriously injuring the occupants. Inspector Colbeck is called in to investig ...Show more
Slaughter in the Sapperton Tunnel - The Bestselling Victorian Mystery Series by Edward Marston
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Railway Detective Ser.
1862. A goods train is going through the Sapperton Tunnel when it hits a makeshift pen of sheep inexplicably set up near the exit. The animals are slaughtered by the impact whilst the train hits a pile of rocks and is derailed, seriously injuring the occupants. Inspector Colbeck is called in to investig ...Show more
The Circus Train Conspiracy (Railway Detective #14) by Edward Marston
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Railway Detective Ser.
Book fourteen in the Railway Detective series following Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming in Victorian England
The Railway Detective by Edward Marston
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Railway Detective Ser.
In 1851 England, the city of London anticipates the grand opening of the Great Expedition. Excitement is mounting with each engineering triumph of the railways, but not everyone feels like celebrating. A sudden attack hits the London to Birmingham mail train and it is looted and derailed. Planned with m ...Show more
The Railway Detective's Christmas Case by Edward Marston
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Railway Detective Ser.
December 1864. As a cold winter wind scours the Worcestershire countryside, an excursion train comes through a tunnel in the Malvern Hills to be confronted by a blockage on the line ahead. The driver manages to slow the train down so that the impact is minimised, but the passengers are alarmed. The firs ...Show more
Tragedy on the Branch Line by Edward Marston
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Railway Detective Ser.
When Bernard Pomeroy finds a letter slipped under his door in the early hours, he flies into a panic. After dashing off a short note to his friend, he hands it to the porter at Corpus Christi College before hastening on to the railway station and boarding a train leaving Cambridge. However, shortly afte ...Show more