| ISBN |
9781458794451 (paperback) |
| 0750524057 |
| Name |
Marston, Edward author. |
| Title |
The excursion train / Edward Marston. |
| Edition |
Large print edition. |
| Published |
[Surry Hills, N.S.W.] : Read How You Want, [2016] |
| ©2005 |
| North Yorkshire, England : Magna Large Print, 2005 |
| ©2005 |
| Description |
413 pages (large print) ; 24 cm. |
| Notes |
"A Detective Inspector Colbeck mystery" |
| Edward Marston is a pseudonym used by Keith Miles. |
| Summary |
As a bustling crowd clambers aboard the Great Western Railway excursion train, taking them to an illegal prize-fight in Berkshire, the train guard fears for the safety of his rolling stock. Little does he expect, however, the brutal murder of one of his passengers, Jake Bransby. On the shocking discovery of the body, Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck and his assistant, Sergeant Victor Leeming, are sent to the scene.Faced with what initially appears to be a motiveless murder, Colbeck is intrigued by the murder weapon a noose. When it emerges that Bransby has worked as a public executioner, he realises that this must be intrinsically linked to the killer's choice of weapon. However, the further he delves into the case, the more mysterious it becomes. When a second man is strangled by a noose on a train, Colbeck knows that he must act quickly; can he catch the murderer before more lives are lost? |
| Subjects |
Railroad travel -- Fiction |
| Railroad travel -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction |
| Police -- England -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction |
| Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction |
| Genre |
Detective and mystery stories |
| Large type books |
| Series |
Railway detective series 02. |
| Read how you want 16 |
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