The Stationmaster's Farewell
The ninth book in the Railway Detective series starts in Exeter on Bonfire Night, 1857. The popular stationmaster, Joel Heygate, goes missing and his charred remains are later found beneath the bonfire.
Scotland Yard is contacted by the South Devon Railway and Inspector Robert Colbeck is sent to Exeter to solve the murder with the help of Sergeant Victor Leeming. They meet strong opposition from the Bishop and are hampered in other ways. In their search for the killer, they follow a long and tortuous trail that is fraught with danger.
Hardcover, April 2012
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Blood on the Line
Jeremy Oxley, thief and murderer, is being escorted by two policemen on a train. He is rescued by a beautiful female accomplice who shoots one man and helps to overpower the other. Both bodies are hurled out of the moving train.
Robert Colbeck, the Railway Detective, has a special reason to catch Oxley, an arch enemy from the past. Pursued relentlessly, Oxley eventually flees abroad but even then he is not safe. Colbeck and his assistant, Victor Leeming chase him and his accomplice all the way across the Atlantic Ocean.
Paperback, April 2012
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The Queen's Head
Nicholas Bracewell is the book holder with Westfield's Men, one of the finest theatre companies in Elizabethan England. When an actor is killed in a brawl, Nicholas has to replace him immediately and find the killer.
Trouble continues to dog the company. When they are invited to perform at Court, they lose the boy apprentice who plays the lead in the play and have to make desperate last-minute changes.
But catastrophe is at hand and only Nicholas can avert it.
Paperback, April 2012
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The Merry Devils
When Westfield's Men perform a new play, The Merry Devils, an unscheduled third devil appears and causes uproar in the inn yard theatre. The actors are superstitious and Nicholas Bracewell has difficulty persuading them to put the play on again. This time, one of the two devils fails to come out of the trap door and is found dead beneath the stage.
Believing that the play is cursed, the actors complain when forced to perform it for the third time and the results are devastating.
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The Trip to Jerusalem
Compelled to leave London and go on tour, Westfield's Men head for York where they will perform at an inn called The Trip to Jerusalem. On the way there, they encounter murder, theft, religious mania and vicious competition from a rival company.
Nicholas Bracewell, their book holder, needs all his resourcefulness to get them safely to York where they meet another battery of challenges.
Paperback, April 2012
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Instrument of Slaughter
1916. The second book in the Home Front Detective series features Cyril Ablatt, a young conscientious objector who refuses to join the army. After making a rousing speech at a mass meeting ("I refuse to be an instrument of slaughter in a khaki uniform…"), he is bludgeoned to death.
Inspector Harvey Marmion and Sergeant Joe Keedy are assigned to the case. The crime arouses little public sympathy and Ablatt's friends fear that they, too, are in danger. When there's another murderous attack in the same part of London, the press is highly critical of Scotland Yard.
Inspector Marmion is not convinced that both attacks are the work of the same person. Nor does he believe that Ablatt is the saint described by his family and friends.
Hardcover, Autumn 2012
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A Bespoke Murder
1915. The first book in the Home Front Detective series begins with the sinking of the Lusitania. In its wake, crowds storm into the West End to attack premises owned by German proprietors.
Jacob Stein is a renowned tailor. His shop is set ablaze, his daughter is raped and he is murdered. Inspector Harvey Marmion and Sergeant Joe Keedy find that they have to cope with a number of related crimes as well. To apprehend the rapists, they have to cross the Channel to reach the western front. The killer proves to be much more elusive.
Hardcover, Autumn 2012
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