A Christmas Railway Mystery

A highly enjoyable festive offering in the Railway Detectives series. I wasn’t initially aware that this was part of that series, as the artwork is slightly different to the rest. This Christmas Special was my first introduction to these characters. December 1860 and Inspector Colbeck is sent to Swin......more

​This is my first winter/Christmas season read and it was a good one. ​I​nspector​ Colbeck​ from Scotland Yard is on the case of a rail worker who has been found murdered and headless. It's pretty grim​ and​ Colbeck and Leeming aren't to return home until the case is solved. Did I mention Christmas......more

Edward Marston never lets the reader down with his railway detective series; here is another thrilling case ... It is December 1860 and when Inspector Robert Colbeck and Sergeant Victor Leeming hear of a body being discovered in the Swindon works of the Great Western Railway, their Superintendent Edw......more

have to admit that this was the weakest of all of the series I have read so far and didn't have the usual feel......more

Each year I attempt to find at least one Christmas murder mystery - after all, what would Christmas be without a good murder? I thought I had hit the jackpot with A Christmas Railway Mystery - not only a Victorian Christmas setting, but the location of the murder was the Great Western Railway village......more