Beau Blackstone

Blackstone #3

by Richard (Derek Lambert) Falkirk

Edmund Blackstone, Bow Street Runner, goes undercover to try to thwart a train robbery.

Genres: Historical Fiction

224 pages, Hardcover

First published September 20, 1973

Reviews

[Peter]

Bow Street Runner, Edmund Blackstone, himself a former criminal, is dispatched to the English Midlands in disguise as a railway worker, to uncover sabotage by those wanting to prevent the success of the railways, in this interesting 1973 novel set in the early-nineteenth century. Various landowners and a gang of railway workers stand in his way as he has to prevent a robbery taking place on one of the first trains. Much of interest about life and working conditions, and Blackstone is a credible, quite dark character. 4.5 stars.

[Susan]

Invested interests in the canal industry threatened the new railway engines. George Stephenson brings in the Bow Street Runners and therefore Blackstone to find the conspirators and stop the plots against him, and the railway between Stockton and Darlington.
An enjoyable thriller/mystery with the interesting character of Blackstone.
A NetGalley Book

[David]

Navvies and other members of the "dangerous classes," and the word's first train robbery. Great fun. So glad this fine series is now on Kindle, so I can complete it. Ripping yarns, with lots of Regency color. Extra half-star for period brand names (guns, snuff boxes, fashion).

[Steven Davis]

A good, fun, read; the same series I read a couple of when I was a teenager and really liked then; love now. Detail, character, an era of highwayman derring-do and Peelers who are more criminal than Police. Plenty of twists and turns.

[Paul]

One of the best of Falkirk's Blackstone series. Blackstone goes undercover as a navigator building a railway line. As with many of the other Blackstone novels it is well researched and gives us a look at the Victorian age.