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The Railway Detective Series
24 primary works • 26 total works
Also known as: Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck Series
The Railway Detective series, featuring Scotland Yard detectives Inspector Robert Colbeck and Sergeant Victor Leeming, is set in the 1850.
Book 1
The Railway Detective
by
Edward Marston
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published 2004
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London 1851. With the opening of the Great Exhibit…
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Book 2
The Excursion Train
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published 2005
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Set in 19th century England, a bustling crowd boar…
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Book 3
The Railway Viaduct
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published 2006
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As a train speeds over the Sankey Viaduct, the dea…
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Book 4
The Iron Horse
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published 2007
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Derby Day at Epsom Downs. A multitude of people cr…
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Book 5
Murder on the Brighton Express
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published 2007
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October 1854. As an autumnal evening draws to a cl…
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Book 6
The Silver Locomotive Mystery
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published 2009
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Book 7
Railway to the Grave
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published 2010
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Tragedy strikes close to the Detective Department …
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Book 8
Blood on the Line
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published 2011
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The year is 1855, and on the LNWR train to London,…
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Book 9
The Stationmaster's Farewell
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published 2012
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1857. Only when the bonfire finally dies down, the…
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Book 10
Peril on the Royal Train
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published 2013
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The driver and fireman of a goods train are speedi…
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Book 11
A Ticket to Oblivion
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published 2014
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Young Imogen Burnhope and her maid Rhoda board a n…
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Book 12
Timetable of Death
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published 2015
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1859. St Mary's Church, Spondon. A little girl pla…
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Book 13
Signal for Vengeance
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published 2016
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1860, Wimborne, Dorset. Rebecca Tullidge, miserabl…
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Book 14
The Circus Train Conspiracy
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Edward Marston
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published 2017
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Following a string of successful performances, the…
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Book 15
A Christmas Railway Mystery
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Edward Marston
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published 2017
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December 1860. Headed for the morning shift at the…
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Book 16
Points of Danger
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published 2018
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1861, East Anglia. Alone in a first-class carriage…
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Book 17
Fear on the Phantom Special
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Edward Marston
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published 2019
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Halloween, 1861. A special train with two carriage…
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Book 18
Slaughter in the Sapperton Tunnel
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published 2020
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1862. A goods train is speeding through the Sapper…
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Book 19
Tragedy on the Branch Line
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published 2021
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When Bernard Pomeroy finds a letter slipped under …
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Book 20
The Railway Detective’s Christmas Case
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Edward Marston
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An excursion train comes through a tunnel in the M…
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Book 21
Death at the Terminus
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1865. A passenger train stands in York station. Ja…
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Book 22
Murder in Transit
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published 2024
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Book 23
Mystery at the Station Hotel: The bestselling Victorian mystery series
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Edward Marston
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Shrewsbury, 1866. At the Station Hotel, staff stru…
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Book 24
Murder on the Great Northern Railway:
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Edward Marston
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Book 1-3
The Railway Detective Collection: The Railway Detective, The Excursion Train, The Railway Viaduct
by
Edward Marston
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published 2011
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Collected together for the first time, the first t…
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Inspector Colbeck's Casebook
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Edward Marston
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published 2014
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Thirteen specially commissioned short stories from…
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