Book description
Derby Day at Epsom Downs. A multitude of people crowd to watch the
races: dukes and dustmen, bishops and beggars, privileged ladies and
prostitutes. The gamut of Victorian society and a hotbed for crime
and crooks of all kinds. With the nation a-flutter in the run up to
this national event, a disembodied head is discovered on a passenger
train at Crewe; the first in a murky course of events that takes in
murder, fraud and race-fixing. Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck
and his assistant are assigned to the case and are soon snarled up
in a web of skulduggery stretching across the country. They are
forced to ask themselves, just how much is someone prepared to
hazard to win?
Edward Marston was born and brought up in South Wales. A full-time
writer for over thirty years, he has worked in radio, film, television
and the theatre and is a former chairman of the Crime Writers'
Association. Prolific and highly successful, he is equally at home
writing children's books or literary criticism, plays or biographies.
There are currently seven books in the series featuring Inspector
Robert Colbeck and Sergeant Victor Leeming, set in the 1850s.
www. edwardmarston. com
