[DI Robert Colbeck 04] • The Iron Horse
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- Authors
- Marston, Edward
- Publisher
- Allison and Busby
- Tags
- traditional british , great britain , marked , history , mystery , 19th century , horse racing , fiction , police , mystery & detective
- ISBN
- 9780749080808
- Date
- 2007-09-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.34 MB
- Lang
- en
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 skullduggery stretching across the country. They are forced to ask themselves, just how much is someone prepared to hazard to win?