Robert Colbeck mysteries
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Robert Colbeck mysteries volume 1
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Distributed by Recorded Books
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p2005
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English
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London, 1851. The London to Birmingham mail train is robbed and derailed, injuring the driver and others aboard. With teh 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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The excursion train , Robert Colbeck mysteries volume 2
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The railway viaduct , Robert Colbeck mysteries volume 3
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The iron horse , Robert Colbeck mysteries volume 4
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Murder on the Brighton Express , Robert Colbeck mysteries volume 5
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The silver locomotive mystery , Robert Colbeck mysteries volume 6
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Railway to the grave , Robert Colbeck mysteries volume 7
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Blood on the line , Robert Colbeck mysteries volume 8
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The stationmaster's farewell , Robert Colbeck mysteries volume 9
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Peril in the royal train: a railway detective novel , Robert Colbeck mysteries volume 10
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A ticket to oblivion: a railway detective novel , Robert Colbeck mysteries volume 11
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Timetable of death , Robert Colbeck mysteries volume 12
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Signal for vengeance , Robert Colbeck mysteries volume 13
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The circus train conspiracy , Robert Colbeck mysteries volume 14
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A Christmas railway mystery , Robert Colbeck mysteries volume 15
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16) Points of danger
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Allison & Busby Limited
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[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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Allison & Busby Limited
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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...
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Allison & Busby
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2020.
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English
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"1862. A goods train is going through the Sapperton Tunnel when it hits a makeshift pen of sheep inexplicably set up near the exit. The animals are slaughtered by the impact whilst the train hits a pile of rocks and is derailed, seriously injuring the occupants. Inspector Colbeck is called in to investigate and discovers that the shepherd and his dog are missing. Stephen Ryle who owned the sheep is shocked by the occurrence which further affects him...
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Allison & Busby
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[2021]
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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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Allison & Busby Limited
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2022.
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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, 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...
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Death at the Terminus , Robert Colbeck mysteries volume 21
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Allison & Busby
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2024.
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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...
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Inspector Colbeck's casebook , Robert Colbeck mysteries volume Related works
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