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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
4.02
· 791 Ratings · 72 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
4.07
· 845 Ratings · 82 Reviews · published 2014 · 11 editions
Young Imogen Burnhope and her maid Rhoda board a n…
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Book 12

Timetable of Death
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Shrewsbury, 1866. At the Station Hotel, staff stru…
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Book 24

Murder on the Great Northern Railway:
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
Collected together for the first time, the first t…
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Inspector Colbeck's Casebook
3.91
· 466 Ratings · 46 Reviews · published 2014 · 18 editions
Thirteen specially commissioned short stories from…
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