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    Railway Detective Collection: The Railway Detective, The Excursion Train, The Railway Viaduct

    By Edward Marston

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    Three thrilling cases for The Railway Detective. With the Great Exhibition in the offing, interest is mounting in the icon of modern technological achievement: the railways. But this triumph of Victorian engineering has a darker side too, as these sinews of empire offer new opportunities for hidden crime and quick escape, vast destruction and dark double-dealings. Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck is the Railway Detective. When a train is robbed or a passenger killed, Colbeck and his trusty sergeant Victor Leeming must take to the rails and use their expert knowledge of crime and railways to untangle webs of murder, blackmail and destruction.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAllison & Busby
    Release dateDec 12, 2013
    ISBN9780749015893
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    Railway Detective Collection: The Railway Detective, The Excursion Train, The Railway Viaduct
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    Edward Marston

    Edward Marston has written well over a hundred books, including some non-fiction. He is best known for his hugely successful Railway Detective series and he also writes the Bow Street Rivals series featuring twin detectives set during the Regency; the Home Front Detective novels set during the First World War; and the Ocean Liner mysteries.

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    • 4/5
      A lively story about interesting times; early railways in England and France. The second installment in a good series
    • 4/5
      The Railway Viaduct starts off with an artist painting a ground's eye view of the Sankey Viaduct when a train passes over it and a man's body falls from a car into the water. Railway Detective Robert Colbeck is tasked to solve the murder. His investigations take him and his crew of quirky co-workers across the channel to France, where a British entrepreneur is expanding that country's rail lines, and employing a huge crew of Irish migrant workers to do so. As Colbeck gets closer to the solution, he discovers that the fate of the man on the train is linked to much larger matters.

      Meanwhile, maverick Irish police officer Brendan Mulryne must prove himself to a haughty, distrusting superior and, in his free time, Colbeck pursues his relationship with Madeleine Andrews by asking her to help him get closer to one of the suspects. But as he pursues the viaduct murderer, he also courts increasing danger.

      This is the third book in the Victorian era Railway Detective series. The characters are well written and interesting. I enjoy reading historical mysteries set in the Victorian period. I've learned quite a bit about trains as well. I definitely plan to read the other books in this enjoyable series.
    • 4/5
      Another Victorian era police procedural set in the early days of the railways. This time Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming are called in to investigate a murder on the Sankey Viaduct, but their hunt for the murderer takes them to the construction site for a new railway line in France. The construction company is British, but the navvies come from all over Europe, adding a new dimension to the problems of investigating murder.I thought the first book in this series suffered from a bad case of "my research, let me show you it", but here the background material is seamlessly woven in to provide some wonderful world-building. Lots of fun, and I'm looking forward to the next one.
    • 2/5
      Another in the 'Railway Detective' series from Martson, this time involving a murder on a railway viaduct leading to a French railway project with jingoistic overtones from British villains. A thoughtful plot takes us through a number of set pieces about Victorian railway culture. I felt it was all a little flat for my taste; all the twists and events seemed to come as no surprise and the secondary characters were only there for colour rather than as ingredients in the mix.
    • 4/5
      Enjoyable 'tec yarn in a series about the Victorian "Railway Detective". Well done settings and a suitably whodunit storyline.
    • 5/5
      I wasn't sure if I'd like this but it was a fascinating history lesson about the development of the railways across Europe and the pivotal role Britain paid, especially Thomas Brassey who built a third of the French railways in the mid-nineteenth century and Thomas Crampton who designed and built many of the locomotives. I was unaware of either so I enjoyed learning some industrial history and the plot was almost incidental to my enjoyment. The novel is well researched and plotted and involves Brassey as a key character as he is building one of his many French railways. Essentially it is a murder mystery and owes much to simmering English distrust of the French who they had beaten not many years previously at Waterloo. Recommended for anyone enjoys a good plot built on historical fact.
    • 4/5
      This is the third novel in the Railway Detective series set in the mid 19th century. They are settling into a familiar pattern, fairly decent page turners set against an interesting historical background, though with slightly annoyingly clichéd central characters whose personal idiosyncrasies are rather beaten over the reader's head at every opportunity, especially those of Chief Superintendent Tallis, Inspector Colbeck's boss, and Sergeant Learning, Colbeck's underling. The dialogue still reads as rather stilted to me. The plot was interesting enough, being based around sabotage at a French railway project being built by an English engineer, but felt rather similar to the plot of the first novel, as it involves a wealthy man, Sir Marcus Hetherington, trying to carry out the sabotage through others, albeit that his motives were based on nationalism rather than the Luddite attitudes of the landowner in the first novel. I think I'll pick up following novels in the series only when they are going cheap.
    • 5/5
      The Railway Viaduct (The Railway Detective #3) by Edward Marston – The third Railway Detective book presents a complex story that begins with Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Victor Leeming trying to solve the murder of a Frenchman named Gaston Chabal, whose body had been hurled from a train into a canal in Britain. Colbeck quickly discovers that Chabal had been an engineer working on an important rail line expansion in France. The investigation takes Colbeck and Leeming to France where the murder investigation becomes linked to criminals that are trying to stop construction of the rail line. Both Colbeck and Leeming suffer vicious attacks during this investigation. It’s an interesting story that provides much information about the hard-working and hard-living 19th Century railroad workers. I liked this book very much.
    • 2/5
      When the dead body of an unidentified man is flung from a train as it crosses Sankey Viaduct, the railway operators quickly call in Robert Colbeck of Scotland Yard. His previous successes at solving crimes connected with rail travel have earned him the nickname “The Railway Detective”. This time Colbeck's investigation will take him to France, where a British contractor is constructing a new rail line for the French.This book's plot feels forced. The author seems more interested in providing readers with a detailed history of railway engineering than in constructing a detailed puzzle for readers to solve along with the fictional detective. The detective is becoming more obnoxious in each subsequent novel in the series. I believe I'll stop with this one.
    • 1/5
      Charmingly quaint but overall terrible. Makes me think of those horrible BBC costume dramas.