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?
The series
Victorian crime fighting on the railways featuring Scotland Yard detectives Inspector Robert Colbeck and Sergeant Victor Leeming, set in the 1850s and 60s.
#1 · 2004The Railway Detective 
#2 · 2005The Excursion Train 
#3 · 2006The Railway Viaduct 
#4 · 2007The Iron Horse 
#5 · 2006Murder on the Brighton Express 
#6 · 2009The Silver Locomotive Mystery 
#7 · 2010Railway to the Grave 
#8 · 2011Blood on the Line 
#9 · 2012The Stationmaster's Farewell 
#10 · 2013Peril on the Royal Train 
#11 · 2014Inspector Colbeck's Casebook 
#12 · 2014A Ticket to Oblivion 
#13 · 2015Timetable of Death 
#14 · 2016Signal for Vengeance 
#15 · 2017The Circus Train Conspiracy 
#16 · 2017A Christmas Railway Mystery 
#17 · 2018Points of Danger 
#18 · 2019Fear on the Phantom Special 
#19 · 2020Slaughter in the Sapperton Tunnel 
#20 · 2021Tragedy on the Branch Line 
#21 · 2022The Railway Detective's Christmas Case 
#22 · 2023Death at the Terminus 
#23 · 2024Murder in Transit 
#24 · 2025Mystery at the Station Hotel 
#25 · 2025Murder on the Great Northern Railway 
#26 · 2026The Corpse on the Bristol Train Be the first reviewer
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