Book description
The Railway Detective faces his most dangerous adversary yet
1852. Inspector Robert Colbeck and his assistant Sergeant Victor
Leeming are faced with their most complex and difficult case to
date. As a train speeds over the Sankey Viaduct, a man is hurled
from a carriage and plummets into the canal below. It later
transpires that he has been stabbed to death. With no papers by
which to identify the man, the detectives' investigation is hampered
from the start.
Suspecting that the victim may have come from continental Europe,
Colbeck and Leeming take the case to France where a new railway is
being built by a British contractor. But in a new country the
detectives face new problems. Anti-British feeling is rife and
Colbeck and Leeming must put their own lives in danger to pick up
the murderer's trail.
The third in the acclaimed Railway Detective series, The Railway
Viaduct is an absorbing mystery that will keep you guessing till the
very end.
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
