Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck
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Book 1
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The Railway Detective
- The Railway Detective, Book 1
- By: Edward Marston
- Narrated by: Peter Walters
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
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London, 1851. With the opening of the Great Exhibition at hand, interest in 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.
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Just okay
- By Kindle Customer on 10-10-24
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The Railway Detective
- The Railway Detective, Book 1
- Narrated by: Peter Walters
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 08-21-21
- Language: English
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Book 2
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The Excursion Train
- The Railway Detective, Book 2
- By: Edward Marston
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
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On the shocking discovery of a passenger's body on the Great Western Railway excursion train, Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck and his assistant, Sergeant Victor Leeming, are dispatched to the scene. Faced with what initially appears to be a motiveless murder, Colbeck is intrigued by the murder weapon - a noose. When it emerges that the victim had worked as a public executioner, Colbeck realises that this must be intrinsically linked to the killer's choice of weapon.
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Greatly entertaining!
- By Kathi on 08-18-13
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The Excursion Train
- The Railway Detective, Book 2
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 07-08-13
- Language: English
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Book 3
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The Railway Viaduct
- The Railway Detective, Book 3
- By: Edward Marston
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 8 hrs
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The Railway Detective faces his most dangerous adversary yet. It is 1852, and Inspector Robert Colbeck and his assistant Sergeant Victor Leeming are faced with their most complex and difficult case to date. As a train speeds over the Sankey Viaduct, a man is hurled from a carriage and plummets into the canal below. It later transpires that he has been stabbed to death. With no papers by which to identify the man, the detectives' investigation is hampered from the start. Suspecting that the victim may have come from continental Europe, Colbeck and Leeming take the case to France where a new railway is being built by a British contractor.
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Mystery Maven
- By Mystery Maven on 08-02-23
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The Railway Viaduct
- The Railway Detective, Book 3
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 08-05-13
- Language: English
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Book 4
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The Iron Horse
- The Railway Detective, Book 4
- By: Edward Marston
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
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Derby Day at Epsom Downs and a multitude of people crowd to watch the races: dukes and dustmen, bishops and beggars, privileged ladies and prostitutes. The gamut of Victorian society, though, is also a hotbed for crime and crooks of all kinds. With the country a-flutter in the run-up to this national occasion, events reach fever pitch when 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.
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Beautifully Narrated
- By Virginia Waldron on 08-30-10
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The Iron Horse
- The Railway Detective, Book 4
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 08-03-09
- Language: English
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Book 5
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Murder on the Brighton Express
- The Railway Detective, Book 5
- By: Edward Marston
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
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When the engines finally met, there was a deafening clash and the Brighton Express twisted and buckled, tipping its carriages on to the other line. It was a scene of utter devastation. October 1854. As crowds of passengers rush to make the departure of the London to Brighton Express, a man watches from the shadows nearby, grimly satisfied as the train pulls out of the station. Chaos, fatalities and unbelievable destruction are the scene soon after when the train derails on the last leg of its journey.
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Fabulous Narrator
- By Virginia Waldron on 08-30-10
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Murder on the Brighton Express
- The Railway Detective, Book 5
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 04-01-10
- Language: English
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Book 6
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The Silver Locomotive Mystery
- The Railway Detective, Book 6
- By: Edward Marston
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
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An exquisite silver coffee-pot in the shape of a locomotive is on its way to Cardiff in the care of silversmith, Hugh Kellow. When the coffee-pot is stolen and a murder is committed, Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming are called in to investigate.
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Fun when you need a light read with good mystery
- By Kathi on 07-04-14
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The Silver Locomotive Mystery
- The Railway Detective, Book 6
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 10-05-10
- Language: English
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Book 7
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Railway to the Grave
- The Railway Detective, Book 7
- By: Edward Marston
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
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Yorkshire 1855. When Colonel Aubrey Tarleton walks into the path of a speeding train, he is crushed to death on the track. The famous Railway Detective, Inspector Robert Colbeck, is immediately put on the case to determine why such a well-respected man would have resorted to suicide. Tarleton's wife had recently gone missing, but was the colonel responsible for her disappearance? It's up to Colbeck and his trusty sergeant Victor Leeming to uncover the truth.
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Finally- Leeming escapes without a concussion!
- By John on 09-30-17
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Railway to the Grave
- The Railway Detective, Book 7
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 02-21-12
- Language: English
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Book 8
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Blood on the Line
- The Railway Detective, Book 8
- By: Edward Marston
- Narrated by: Cornelius Garrett
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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The year is 1855, and on the LNWR train to London, a criminal is being escorted to his appointment with the hangman. But the wily Jeremy Oxley, conman, thief and murderer, has one last ace up his sleeve: a beautiful and ruthless accomplice willing to do anything to save her lover, including committing cold-blooded murder... When Inspector Robert Colbeck learns that Oxley, his nemesis, has once again escaped, black memories of their shared past leave him no choice but to do his duty.
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Mystery Maven
- By Mystery Maven on 08-10-23
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Blood on the Line
- The Railway Detective, Book 8
- Narrated by: Cornelius Garrett
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 01-10-12
- Language: English
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Book 9
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The Stationmaster's Farewell
- The Railway Detective, Book 9
- By: Edward Marston
- Narrated by: Cornelius Garrett
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
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Guy Fawkes Night, 1857. Joel Heygate is the popular stationmaster at Exeter St David's railway station - an impressive figure of a man replete with frock coat and top hat, bushy eyebrows and walrus moustache. But when the charred remains of a body are discovered in the embers of the town's annual Bonfire Night celebration, everyone is horrified when it becomes clear that they belong to Mr Heygate.
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Another great entry in the series!
- By Liz W. on 01-05-19
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The Stationmaster's Farewell
- The Railway Detective, Book 9
- Narrated by: Cornelius Garrett
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 06-01-13
- Language: English
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Book 10
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Peril on the Royal Train
- The Railway Detective, Book 10
- By: Edward Marston
- Narrated by: Nick McArdle
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
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Spring, 1858. The route of the Caledonian Railway through the southern uplands of the Scottish countryside is disrupted by a fatal crash. Inspector Robert Colbeck and Sergeant Victor Leeming are called from the crime of London to investigate, and must contend with old enemy Superintendent Rory McTurk to uncover the criminals behind the disaster.
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Complicated plot
- By Barbara Merry on 10-06-23
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Peril on the Royal Train
- The Railway Detective, Book 10
- Narrated by: Nick McArdle
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 09-01-22
- Language: English
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Book 11
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Book 12
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Book 13
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Signal for Vengeance
- The Railway Detective, Book 13
- By: Edward Marston
- Narrated by: Nick McArdle
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
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1860, Wimborne, Dorset. Rebecca Tullidge, miserably married to her callous husband, is having an affair with a railway officer, John Bedloe. Much to her distress, she trips over her lover's dead body on the railway tracks. Determined to win votes for the upcoming election of mayor, Mr Feltham calls for Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Lemming to solve the hideous crime, which takes longer than anticipated.
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Not great
- By JOHN on 05-19-18
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Signal for Vengeance
- The Railway Detective, Book 13
- Narrated by: Nick McArdle
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 09-01-17
- Language: English
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Book 14
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The Circus Train Conspiracy
- The Railway Detective, Book 14
- By: Edward Marston
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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Following a string of successful performances along the west coast, the Moscardi Circus is travelling by train to Hexham on the Newcastle to Carlisle Railway for their next show. Yet a collision on the track causes pandemonium. When the headless body of a woman is discovered in nearby woodland, Inspector Colbeck is desperate to lend assistance, however a reluctant Superintendent Tallis forbids him from doing so.
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The Circus Train Conspiracy
- The Railway Detective, Book 14
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 01-01-19
- Language: English
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Book 15
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A Christmas Railway Mystery
- The Railway Detective, Book 15
- By: Edward Marston
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
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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, boilersmith Frank 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.
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Probably good reading as a book-a bit boring
- By John on 12-08-18
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A Christmas Railway Mystery
- The Railway Detective, Book 15
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 11-01-18
- Language: English
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Book 16
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Points of Danger
- The Railway Detective, Book 16
- By: Edward Marston
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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East Anglia, 1861. Alone in a first-class carriage, the Swarbricks are robbed at gunpoint. But when the universally admired Swarbrick fights back, the train robber takes more than money and jewellery, killing the man working to unify East Anglia's tangle of railway networks. Inspector Colbeck is brought in from London, but as Swarbrick's glowing reputation begins to crumble, the line of investigation isn't clear.
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Points of Danger
- The Railway Detective, Book 16
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 05-01-19
- Language: English
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Book 17
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Fear on the Phantom Special
- The Railway Detective, Book 17
- By: Edward Marston
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
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Halloween 1861. A special train with two carriages steams across the Lake District at night on its way to a place notorious for its record of supernatural incidents. Lighting inside the carriages is poor, and without warning, the lamp goes out in the last compartment of the second carriage, plunging it into darkness. When the special reaches the end of its journey, the passengers pour out on to the station platform. There are almost 60 of them in all, laughing and jostling.
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Very fun British mystery
- By Cinda Gates on 05-22-23
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Fear on the Phantom Special
- The Railway Detective, Book 17
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 12-01-19
- Language: English
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Book 18
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Slaughter in the Sapperton Tunnel
- The Railway Detective, Book 18
- By: Edward Marston
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
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1862. A goods train is speeding through the Sapperton Tunnel when it hits a makeshift pen of sheep inexplicably set up near the exit. The animals are slaughtered by the impact whilst the train hits a pile of rocks and is derailed, seriously injuring the occupants. Inspector Colbeck discovers that the shepherd and his dog are missing. Stephen Rydall who owned the sheep is shocked by the occurrence, which further affects him as he is a major shareholder in the Great Western Railway.
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Slaughter in the Sapperton Tunnel
- The Railway Detective, Book 18
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 12-01-20
- Language: English
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Book 19
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Tragedy on the Branch Line
- The Railway Detective, Book 19
- By: Edward Marston
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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When Robert Pomeroy, a young undergraduate at Corpus Christi College, finds a letter slipped under his door in the early hours of a rainy day, he flies into a panic. He hurries to the railway station. But he doesn’t reach his destination alive. Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming are called upon to investigate this tragedy on the railway. It soon becomes apparent that Cambridge’s hopes of success in the forthcoming boat race rested on Pomeroy’s shoulders.
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Disappointing narration
- By Penelope on 08-13-21
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Tragedy on the Branch Line
- The Railway Detective, Book 19
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 05-06-21
- Language: English
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Book 20
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The Railway Detective's Christmas Case
- The Railway Detective, Book 20
- By: Edward Marston
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
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December 1864. As a cold winter wind scours the Worcestershire countryside, an excursion train comes through a tunnel in the Malvern Hills, only to be confronted by a blockage on the line ahead. The driver manages to slow the train down so that the impact is minimised, but the passengers are alarmed. The first person to alight is Cyril Hubbleday, the man in charge of the excursion. He walks to the front of the locomotive—and, as he is talking to the driver, fireman and guard, he is shot dead by a sniper.
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Awesome
- By CG on 02-04-23
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The Railway Detective's Christmas Case
- The Railway Detective, Book 20
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 12-01-22
- Language: English
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