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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
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3.74 · 3429 Ratings · 393 Reviews · published 2004 · 19 editions
London 1851. With the opening of the Great Exhibit…

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    Book 2

    The Excursion Train
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    3.90     · 1790 Ratings · 161 Reviews · published 2005 · 17 editions
    Set in 19th century England, a bustling crowd boar…

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    Book 3

    The Railway Viaduct
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    3.93     · 1515 Ratings · 124 Reviews · published 2006 · 20 editions
    As a train speeds over the Sankey Viaduct, the dea…

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    Book 4

    The Iron Horse
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    4.01     · 1252 Ratings · 103 Reviews · published 2007 · 20 editions
    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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    3.95     · 1384 Ratings · 124 Reviews · published 2007 · 21 editions
    October 1854. As an autumnal evening draws to a cl…

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    Book 6

    The Silver Locomotive Mystery
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    3.99     · 1213 Ratings · 109 Reviews · published 2009 · 19 editions
    This is the Railway Detective's puzzling new case.…

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    Book 7

    Railway to the Grave
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    4.13     · 1049 Ratings · 76 Reviews · published 2010 · 17 editions
    Tragedy strikes close to the Detective Department …

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    Book 8

    Blood on the Line
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    4.15     · 936 Ratings · 77 Reviews · published 2011 · 23 editions
    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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    4.12     · 920 Ratings · 96 Reviews · published 2012 · 15 editions
    1857. Only when the bonfire finally dies down, the…

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    Book 10

    Peril on the Royal Train
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    4.02     · 791 Ratings · 73 Reviews · published 2013 · 17 editions
    The driver and fireman of a goods train are speedi…

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    Book 11

    A Ticket to Oblivion
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    4.07     · 846 Ratings · 83 Reviews · published 2014 · 11 editions
    Young Imogen Burnhope and her maid Rhoda board a n…

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    Book 12

    Timetable of Death
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    4.15     · 723 Ratings · 64 Reviews · published 2015 · 12 editions
    1859. St Mary's Church, Spondon. A little girl pla…

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    Book 13

    Signal for Vengeance
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    4.14     · 634 Ratings · 58 Reviews · published 2016 · 12 editions
    1860, Wimborne, Dorset. Rebecca Tullidge, miserabl…

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    Book 14

    The Circus Train Conspiracy
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    3.96     · 646 Ratings · 54 Reviews · published 2017 · 11 editions
    Following a string of successful performances, the…

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    Book 15

    A Christmas Railway Mystery
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    3.86     · 1460 Ratings · 150 Reviews · published 2017 · 11 editions
    December 1860. Headed for the morning shift at the…

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    Book 16

    Points of Danger
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    4.24     · 563 Ratings · 51 Reviews · published 2018 · 9 editions
    1861, East Anglia. Alone in a first-class carriage…

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    Book 17

    Fear on the Phantom Special
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    4.01     · 677 Ratings · 84 Reviews · published 2019 · 9 editions
    Halloween, 1861. A special train with two carriage…

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    Book 18

    Slaughter in the Sapperton Tunnel
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    4.19     · 690 Ratings · 62 Reviews · published 2020 · 5 editions

    1862. A goods train is speeding through the Sapper…

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    Book 19

    Tragedy on the Branch Line
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    4.13     · 611 Ratings · 58 Reviews · published 2021 · 8 editions
    When Bernard Pomeroy finds a letter slipped under …

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    Book 20

    The Railway Detective’s Christmas Case
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    4.03     · 553 Ratings · 69 Reviews · published 2022 · 4 editions
    An excursion train comes through a tunnel in the M…

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    Book 21

    Death at the Terminus
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    4.13     · 486 Ratings · 43 Reviews · published 2023 · 5 editions
    1865. A passenger train stands in York station. Ja…

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    Book 22

    Murder in Transit
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    4.22     · 386 Ratings · 32 Reviews · published 2024 · 6 editions
    On a dark, brooding evening on the Isle of Wight, …

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    Book 23

    Mystery at the Station Hotel: The bestselling Victorian mystery series
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    4.17     · 242 Ratings · 17 Reviews · 2 editions
    Shrewsbury, 1866. At the Station Hotel, staff stru…

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    Book 24

    Murder on the Great Northern Railway:
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    3.92     · 40 Ratings · 5 Reviews · 3 editions
    April, 1867. A train departs King's Cross station …

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    Book 1-3

    The Railway Detective Collection: The Railway Detective, The Excursion Train, The Railway Viaduct
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    4.21     · 145 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2011 · 4 editions
    Collected together for the first time, the first t…

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    Inspector Colbeck's Casebook
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    3.91     · 466 Ratings · 46 Reviews · published 2014 · 18 editions
    Thirteen specially commissioned short stories from…

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