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The Railway Detective

✍ Scribed by Edward Marston

Book ID: 112401494
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Weight: 649 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780749008864
ASIN: B006WB7MMU

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✦ Synopsis

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.
As Colbeck closes in on the criminal masterminds, events take an unexpected turn when the beautiful Madeleine, daughter of the injured train driver, becomes a pawn in the criminals' game. With time running out, good and evil, new and old, battle against each other. But will the long arm of the law have speed on its side?...M.F

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