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2) Drums of war
Author
Series
Captain Daniel Rawson volume 2
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
London 1851. With the opening of the Great Exhibition at hand, interest is mounting in the engineering triumphs of the railways, but not everyone feels like celebrating...
In an audacious attack, the London to Birmingham mail train is robbed and derailed, causing many casualties. Planned with military precision, this crime proves a challenge to Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck who fights to untangle a web of murder, blackmail and destruction.
...Author
Series
Robert Colbeck mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Author
Series
Robert Colbeck mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
"As a bustling crowd clambers aboard the Great Western Railway excursion train, taking them to an illegal prize-fight in Berkshire, the train guard fears for the safety of his rolling stock. Little does he expect, however, the brutal murder of one of his passengers, Jake Bransby. On the shocking discovery of the body, Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck and his assistant, Sergeant Victor Leeming, are sent to the scene." "Faced with what initially appears...
Author
Series
Nicholas Bracewell mysteries volume 12
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Author
Series
Robert Colbeck mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2009
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
2017.
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...
14) The queen's head
Author
Series
Nicholas Bracewell mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Author
Series
Nicholas Bracewell mysteries volume 14
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Author
Series
Nicholas Bracewell mysteries volume 13
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
When Lord Westerfield's Men are stricken by an unexpected disaster during a packed performance on the Kent countryside, Nicholas Bracewell investigates a clown's prediction about the end of the troupe.
Author
Series
Nicholas Bracewell mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2001], c1992
Language
English
18) The merry devils
Author
Series
Nicholas Bracewell mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
19) The silent woman
Author
Series
Nicholas Bracewell mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
The sixth novel in a series featuring Nicholas Bracewell, stage manager of an Elizabethan theater company. A fire at Queen's Head, home of the company, sends the troupe on a tour until the repairs are finished. While they are preparing for the trip a woman arrives with a verbal message, but dies from poisoning before she can speak. Bracewell investigates.
Author
Series
Nicholas Bracewell mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English