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London, 1851. The London to Birmingham mail train is robbed and derailed, injuring the driver and other aboard. With the opening of the Great Exhibition at hand, interest is mounting in the engineering triumphs of the railways. But not everyone is celebrating. Planned with military precision, this crime challenges the new police force to its limits and leads Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck to discover a web of murder, blackmail, and destruction....
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Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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After the death of his mother, Paul abandons his family to live life on the edge with his daughter from a previous marriage who is pregnant and living in a run-down council flat, while Cora rebels against her marriage and society.
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Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2007.
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English
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It is 1852, and Inspector Robert Colbeck and his assistant Sergeant Victor Leeming are faced with their most difficult case to date. As a train speeds over the Sankey Viaduct, a man is hurled from a carriage into the canal below. It later transpires that he has been stabbed to death.
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Allison & Busby
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English
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"When Robert Pomeroy, a young undergraduate at Corpus Christi College, finds a letter slipped under his door in the early hours of a rainy day, he flies into a panic. Hastily readying himself and dashing off a few lines for the porter to summon his friend Nicholas Thorpe, he hurries to the railway station. But he doesn't reach his destination alive. Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming are called upon to investigate this tragedy on the railway....
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Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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When the bonfire finally dies down on Guy Fawkes night 1857, the charred remains of a popular stationmaster's body are found. Who would possibly want to murder a man so universally liked? It's the question Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck and Sergeant Victor Lemming ask when they arrive in Exeter at the request of the South Devon Railway. Yet, as they investigate the stationmaster's life, they realize he is not as popular as they first believed....
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Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"December 1860. Headed for the morning shift at the Swindon Locomotive works is an army of men pouring out of terraced houses built by the GWR, a miniature town and planned community that aims to provide for its employees from cradle to grave. Unfortunately, boiler smith Kenneth Rodman is headed for the grave sooner than he'd expected, or he will be once his missing head is found. Colbeck, the Railway Detective, finds his investigation into Rodman's...
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The British Library
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"A signalman is found dead by a railway tunnel. A man identifies his wife as a victim of murder on the underground. Two passengers mysteriously disappear between stations, leaving behind a dead body. Trains have been a favorite setting of many crime writers, providing the mobile equivalent of the 'locked-room' scenario. Their enclosed carriages with a limited number of suspects lend themselves to seemingly impossible crimes. In an era of cancelations...
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Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Halloween 1861. A special train with two carriages steams across the Lake District at night on its way to a place notorious for its record of supernatural incidents. Most of those on board have been fortified by alcohol so the mood is boisterous. Lighting inside the carriages is poor and without warning, the lamp goes out in the last compartment of the second carriage, plunging it into darkness. When the special reaches the end of its journey, the...
16) Points of danger
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Publisher
Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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1861, East Anglia. Alone in a first-class carriage, the Swarbricks are robbed at gunpoint, but when the universally-admired Swarbrick fights back, the train robber takes more than money and jewellery, killing the man working to unify East Anglia's tangle of railway networks. Inspector Colbeck is brought in from London, as the only detective in Britain with enough expertise for the job. But as Swarbrick's glowing reputation begins to crumble, the line...
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Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In this selection of stories, a young porter is found dead in a coal tub, Colbeck devises a trap to catch a thief, and a burnt train carriage holds a gruesome secret in a small coastal village. As Colbeck and his trusty aide Victor Leeming begin to piece together clues and motives for each crime, it becomes clear the pair must stay a step ahead of the culprits to solve the cases. With a new suspect at every turn, can the duo unearth the real villains?"...
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Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"December 1864. As a cold winter wind scours the Worcestershire countryside, an excursion train comes through a tunnel in the Malvern Hills to be confronted by a blockage on the line ahead. The driver manages to slow the train down so that the impact is minimized, but the passengers are alarmed. The first person to alight is Cyril Hubbleday, the man in charge of the excursion to the delightful spa town of Great Malvern. He walks to the front of the...
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Examines the history of The Flying Scotsman locomotive while witnessing its return to Yorkshire in celebration of its 200th birthday. In a second program viewers join engineers, crew, former owners, and rail fans on a journey through the countryside of Britain as The Flying Scotsman is tested and readied for summer seaside excursions. Also includes a bonus program featuring an interview with Alan Pegler, who rescued The Flying Scotsman from the scrapheap...