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The Railway Detective Free FREE THE RAILWAY DETECTIVE PDF Edward Marston | 320 pages | 01 Jun 2005 | ALLISON & BUSBY | 9780749083526 | English | London, United Kingdom The Railway Detective Books In Publication & Chronological Order - Book Series The series is often referred to as the Railway Detective series. All of the novels are connected to the railways, which was a major part The Railway Detective Victorian England. The series is currently ongoing. InLondon is greatly anticipating the Great Expedition when an attack hits a mail train, which is looted and derailed. Inspector Colbeck must solve a puzzle of murder, blackmail and destruction. As he The Railway Detective in on his suspects, the daughter of a train driver is unwillingly brought in as a pawn in the game. Shop Worldwide: Amazon. Clicking any links beside the book lists will lead you to Amazon for more details or to purchase the book. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Hoping to stumble upon a new author or series? You can click these links and be sent to a random series or a random author. Is our listing The Railway Detective the The Railway Detective missing a book or two? We do our best to get everything listed but the occasional book gets by us. Let us know so we can The Railway Detective it ASAP. Book s. View Results. Home Characters Authors. Order of Inspector Robert Colbeck Books. Inspector Colbeck's Casebook Important Note: Clicking any links beside the book lists will lead you to Amazon for more details or to purchase the book. Monthly Newsletter! We will send you one e-mail a month notifying you of any hot new books announced or coming out, as well as any new additions to the site. Feeling Lucky? Navigation Home Characters Authors. October Poll Do you feel books have made The Railway Detective any better? Yes No View Results. October Book Of The Month. Popular Authors C. Welcome to OrderofBooks. Send an e-mail to site orderofbooks. Privacy Policy. Railway Detective series at Allison and Busby Date: 1st January Part of the series: Railway Detective. Recommend this book. The London to Birmingham mail train is robbed and derailed, injuring the driver and others aboard. With the opening of the Great Exhibition at The Railway Detective, interest is mounting in the engineering triumphs of the railways, but not everyone feels like celebrating. Planned with military precision, this crime challenges the new Police Force to its limits and leads Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck to discover a tangled web of murder, blackmail and destruction. As the momentum gains pace, Colbeck closes in on the criminal masterminds. In a final race against time, good and evil, new and old, are pitted against The Railway Detective other. But will the long arm of the law be quick enough? The Railway Detective is an action-packed dip into murky s London. Full of historical detail, unexpected twists and memorable characters, this is a mystery that will surprise you at every turn. Riddle of the River, The Catherine Shaw. Our author of the month for October is Stephanie Austin. Let us know! Add this page to Facebook. Authors See A-Z listing. Gift Ideas. Other The Railway Detective E-book Hardback Recommend this book. London, Marston manages to not only write a strong police procedural, but to tell us something about society of the s, industrial England in which the story is set. There is never a The Railway Detective moment as Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck untangles a web of murder, blackmail and The Railway Detective A truly fantastic read from start to finish. Marston is a crime detective within himself, he keeps you wondering what happens next meaning you just have to read the next chapter. Inspector Colbeck and his side kick Leeming seem worlds apart The Railway Detective style but close to each other in their detective work. A brilliant read, the whole series so far. Amanda Rose Hodgkiss 1 2 3 4 5 Close all reader reviews. Something you'd like to see on our website? The Railway Detective Series by Edward Marston The Railway Detective is the eponymous opening title in the series of detective mystery novels written by Keith Miles under the pseudonym Edward Marston. According to the publishers in a news release, the series has been optioned for television adaptation by Mammoth Screen. The Railway Detective train driver, who tries to The Railway Detective the robbers, is badly injured and his fireman is forced to drive the engine forward to where a section of track has been removed, causing a derailment. Tallis summons Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck to his office and orders him to lead the investigation. It is quickly established that there is an "unresolved tension" between Tallis and Colbeck which is an underlying theme of the whole series, although the two have great professional respect for each other. McTurk strongly resents their involvement but Colbeck and Leeming soon establish that members of the railway police were guilty of deserting their posts on the train in order to play cards, thus making it much easier for the gang to carry out the robbery. Meanwhile, train driver Caleb Andrews is not expected to survive and his daughter Madeleine arrives in Leighton Buzzard to care for him. Colbeck is convinced that the gang had inside information and were certainly in possession of duplicated safe keys. As a result, they become aware of Daniel Slender, who duplicated the safe keys at Chubb; William Ings of the Post Office, who was involved in the mail train's scheduling; and Albert Woodhead of the Royal Mint, who unwittingly advised Ings of the gold consignment. Ings is the first of the suspects to be pursued and Colbeck discovers that he is hiding in the notorious Devil's Acre. To find Ings, Colbeck seeks help from Brendan Mulryne, a former colleague who is now a resident there. Mulryne establishes a connection between Ings and the prostitute Polly Roach but, The Railway Detective he finds Roach, he is too late to prevent the murder of Ings. In due course, Slender meets a similar fate. It is clear to Colbeck that the gang are eliminating loose ends and The Railway Detective links to remain undetected. Colbeck is concerned about the unnecessary destruction of the steam engine The Railway Detective the robbery and believes he is looking for someone with influence who hates the railways. Although Tallis dismisses Colbeck's theory, it is valid as gang leader Sir The Railway Detective Gilzean has an obsessive hatred of railways. He blames them for the accidental death of his wife. The gang The Railway Detective again at the Kilsby Tunnelplacing gunpowder at one end in a bid to destroy both the tunnel and a train carrying glass sheets for use in the Crystal Palace. The explosion is detonated too soon to destroy the train and causes only superficial damage to the tunnel. Colbeck makes the connection and realises, despite more opposition from Tallis, that an attempt will be made to destroy the locomotives on display at the Great Exhibition. Colbeck is right about the The Railway Detective Palace and, aided by Leeming and Mulryne, is able to arrest Jukes and The Railway Detective Seymours one night when they try to destroy the Lord of the Isles. The Railway Detective gangsters refuse to give information about their leaders. Gilzean and Sholto have added to their haul by blackmailing the senders of complicit letters which were in the stolen mailbags. They are fearful of imminent arrest and Gilzean instructs Sholto to find The Railway Detective whom Colbeck cares about to distract him from the investigation. Caleb Andrews is no longer a critical case and has been taken home where Madeleine is looking after him. She has met Colbeck in the course of the investigation and there is a mutual attraction between them which develops as the novel progresses. Sholto follows Colbeck and observes the affection he has for Madeleine during a visit to the Andrews household. As a result, Gilzean and Sholto kidnap Madeleine and send a demand to the Met for the release of Jukes and the Seymours. Working on what little is known about the three prisoners, Colbeck and Leeming discover their common military background and make the link between them and two of their former officers who both left the Army on the same day. These are Gilzean and Sholto. Colbeck establishes that Gilzean has a pathological hatred of railways and even Tallis agrees that the case has been solved, so the investigation is now a manhunt but with Madeleine's life at stake. Fortunately for Madeleine, Gilzean is protective of her and will not allow Sholto to molest her. Tallis leads a raid on The Railway Detective Berkshire residence but he bungles it and the criminals escape, still holding The Railway Detective as a hostage. Colbeck finds documents in Gilzean's house which convince him they are taking The Railway Detective to Bristol to board ship and flee the country. They The Railway Detective first and intercept the two criminals on board their ship in harbour. Madeleine, unharmed, is freed and reunited with her father. The bond between Colbeck and Madeleine is permanent and, when Colbeck receives two The Railway Detective tickets from the grateful Prince Albert for the opening of the Great Exhibition, he invites Madeleine to join him. The Detective Department of the Metropolitan Police Force the Met was founded in and so was only nine years old inwhen the story is set. Richard Maynewho was The Railway Detective joint first commissioner of the Met, is depicted in meetings with Tallis, Colbeck and Leeming.
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