Derby Day at Epsom Downs. A multitude of people crowd to watch the races: dukes and dustmen, bishops and beggars, privileged ladies and prostitutes. The gamut of Victorian society and a hotbed for crime and crooks of all kinds. With the nation a-flutter in the run up to this national event, a disembodied head is discovered on a passenger train at Crewe; the first in a murky course of events that takes in murder, fraud and race-fixing. Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck and his assistant are assigned to the case and are soon snarled up in a web of skulduggery stretching across the country. They are forced to ask themselves, just how much is someone prepared to hazard to win?
ISBN: | 9780749079154 |
Publication date: | 23rd June 2008 |
Author: | Edward Marston |
Publisher: | Allison & Busby |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 336 pages |
Series: | Railway Detective |
Genres: |
Historical Crime and Mysteries |