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Author
Series
Nicholas Bracewell mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Author
Series
Bow street rivals volume 5
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
London, 1817. An impatient crowd is gathered outside the stage door of the Covent Garden Theatre, desperate for a glimpse of actress Hannah Granville after her latest performance as Lady Macbeth, amongst them the Prince Regent himself. But before she can appear a gunshot sounds, and a man lies dead on the ground amidst the ensuing chaos. Sir Roger Mellanby MP had been a spearhead for social reform, although his political leanings had made him many...
Author
Series
Bow Street rivals volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A scurrilous newspaper has built up a large following by publishing details of political and sexual scandals. It is remarkably well-informed and has therefore created a whole host of enemies. When the editor is killed and the printing press smashed to bits, the Invisible Detectives are hired by the man who financed the production of the paper. He wants the killer brought to justice and the scandal sheet revived. Peter and Paul Skillen find themselves...
Author
Series
Railway detective volume 20
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
December 1864. As a cold winter wind scours the Worcestershire countryside, an excursion train comes through a tunnel in the Malvern Hills, only to be confronted by a blockage on the line ahead. The driver manages to slow the train down so that the impact is minimised, but the passengers are alarmed. The first person to alight is Cyril Hubbleday, the man in charge of the excursion. He walks to the front of the locomotive - and, as he is talking to...
Author
Series
Railway detective volume 22
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
1866. On a dark, brooding summer's evening, Agnes Lenham seats herself in an empty first-class compartment on the train to Portsmouth. She is joined by a naval officer and a middle-aged man, in high spirits after dining at his club, travelling to his home on the Isle of Wight. His name is Giles Blanchard - and within moments of the train leaving the station, the sailor strangles him... At Scotland Yard, Detective Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
"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....
Author
Series
[The Captain Rawson volume 5
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
1709. Europe is in the grip of the coldest winter for a century. Ports freeze. Cattle die. People starve. Mutiny and desertions rattle the French army leaving Louis XIV to search for peace on almost any terms. Captain Daniel Rawson acts as an interpreter at the negotiations in The Hague, feeling acute frustration when the talks collapse. While the resumption of war looms close at hand again, Daniel is given a personal mission by Marlborough himself...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"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
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Nicholas Bracewell mysteries volume 11
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
19) Danger of defeat
Author
Series
Home front detective volume 10
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
February 1918. Detective Inspector Harvey Marmion and Detective SergeantJoe Keedy are pulled from their beds to attend a sinister siege involving threeburglars where one policeman has already been shot dead. Attempts at talkingthe men in the house into surrender are met with stony silence so the policeproceed to batter down the door and Keedy bravely leads the way. A gunshotis heard. Keedy is hit.As Keedy is rushed to hospital, Marmion is on the trail...
Author
Series
Bow Street rivals volume 4
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
1817. Upon receiving a letter from an old family friend, Catherine Van Emden returns from Holland to find her father dead. She refuses to believe the middle-aged man died of natural causes, and the suspicious circumstances of his life during the past few months compel her to ask Peter and Paul Skillen for help. Why would a successful engineer suddenly begin begging for alms on the streets? Had he refused to ask for help, or was he prevented from doing...
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