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Author
Series
Publisher
Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When an explosion on a passenger train kills a guard, Inspector Robert Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming are sent to investigate whether it was an accident, deliberate vandalism, or targeted murder.
Author
Series
Domesday books volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ralph Delchard, a soldier who fought at the Battle of Hastings, and Gervase Bret, a talented lawyer, have been commissioned by William the Conqueror to look into irregularities brought to light during the compilation of the Domesday Book, the great survey of England. Their investigations take them throughout the kingdom, but the pair often find themselves embroiled in more sinister mysteries in the towns they visit. The King's work is a dangerous...
Author
Series
Ocean liner volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Southampton, 1910. When the Oceanic sets sail its ultimate destination is New York. But it must make one very important stop first: at Cherbourg, to pick up internationally renowned financier and art collector J. P. Morgan, fresh from a continental buying spree. George Dillman and Genevieve Masefield, the ship's detectives, are nervous about the presence of such an important passenger, not to mention his valuable cargo. After all, it is rare for a...
Author
Series
Home front detective mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 25 cm.
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
Nicholas Bracewell mysteries volume 7
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1995.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Home front detective mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Alison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pentonville Prison. Wally Hubbard is serving a long sentence for arson. But after befriending and tricking one of the officers, Hubbard makes an audacious escape. Inspector Marmion, the detective who arrested Hubbard, is warned to watch his back, but it seems that Hubbard has another target in his murderous sights. However, the investigation is mired in confusion, the identities of killer and victim become increasingly ambiguous. An inmate at an internment...
Author
Series
Nicholas Bracewell mysteries volume 11
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
273 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Out of work and desperate, the Westfield's Men theatrical troupe accepts an invitation to perform at an Essex manor house, but the job takes on a deadly turn when they come face to face with witchcraft and charges of being the devil's apprentices.
Author
Series
Home front detective mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The fifth book in the Home Front Detective Series. London, Autumn 1916. When he slips out of a house in the early hours of the morning, Simon Wilder is too preoccupied to realise that he is being stalked. As he walks along the street, lights begin to dim as a warning that there's another Zeppelin attack. Guns begin to pound away as British aeroplanes attack the Zeppelin. Suddenly, it bursts into flame and lights up the whole sky. The crowds cheer...
Author
Series
Publisher
Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 23 cm.
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
Publisher
Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
313 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a rare silver coffeepot in the shape of a locomotive disappears from the train to Cardiff and a murder subsequently occurs, Inspector Colbert and his sergeant are called in to investigate.
Author
Series
Publisher
Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 23 cm.
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Bow Street Rivals volume 5
Language
English
Formats
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
Ocean liner volume 8
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Paperback edition.
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
New York, 1910. George Dillman and Genevieve Masefield have crossed the Atlantic Ocean numerous times in their capacity as ship's detectives. On those crossings they've had the pleasure, and in some cases the trouble, of sailing with very famous passengers. Dukes. Duchesses. Artists. Actors. Musicians. Royalty. But few names have quite the level of fame and fortune as their fellow traveller Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Now aboard the Celtic, Dillman and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Railway detective volume 22
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 23 cm.
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...
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