A Christmas railway mystery / Edward Marston.
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TextSeries: Marston, Edward. Railway detective series ; 15.Publisher: London : Allison & Busby Limited, 2018Copyright date: ©2017Edition: Paperback editionDescription: 350 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780749021696 (paperback)Subject(s): Colbeck, Robert, (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Colbeck, Robert, (Fictitious character) | Leeming, Victor, (Fictitious character) | Colbeck, Robert, (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Leeming, Victor, (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | 1800-1899 | Leeming, Victor (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Detective and mystery stories | Historical fiction | Christmas fiction | Kidnapping -- Investigation -- Fiction | Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction | Police | Railroad travel | Police -- Fiction | Railroad travel -- Fiction | Police -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction | Railroad travel -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction | Great BritainGenre/Form: Crime-Victorian -- Adult fiction -- Print | Detective and mystery stories. | Detective and mystery fiction | Historical fiction. | History. | Christmas fiction. | Detective and mystery fiction. | Fiction. | Detective and mystery fiction. | Historical fiction. | Christmas fiction. | Mystery fiction. | Detective and mystery stories DDC classification: 823/.914 Summary: 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 murder mired in contradictions. Was the victim a short-tempered brawler, or a committed Christian and chorister who aimed to better himself? On the trail of Rodman's enemy as the season starts to bite, Colbeck finds little festive cheer in the twists and turns of this peculiar case.
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Originally published: 2017.
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 murder mired in contradictions. Was the victim a short-tempered brawler, or a committed Christian and chorister who aimed to better himself? On the trail of Rodman's enemy as the season starts to bite, Colbeck finds little festive cheer in the twists and turns of this peculiar case.
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