Railway detective series

1860, Wimborne, Dorset. Rebecca Tullidge, miserably married, is having an affair with a railway officer, who she finds dead on the railway tracks. Mayoral hopeful, Mr Feltham calls for the Railway Detective to solve the hideous crime. With a pregnant wife at home, Colbeck must work at speed if he...

1860, Dorset. A married woman finds some escape from her miserable home life in an affair with another man. But the age-old tale has a new spin put upon it when, en route to a tryst, the wife trips over her dead lover on the railway tracks. Inspector Colbeck is drafted in from London to solve the...

An exquisitely designed silver coffee-pot in the shape of a locomotive is on its way to Cardiff in the care of young, talented silversmith, Hugh Kellow. When the coffee-pot is stolen and a murder is committed at the Railway Hotel, Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming of Scotland Yard are called...

A goods train speeds through the Sapperton Tunnel, but disaster strikes before it can reach the other side as it collides with an unusual blockage on the tracks: seven sheep penned in place. Specially requested to investigate the carnage in Gloucestershire, Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming ...

A goods train speeds through the Sapperton Tunnel, but disaster strikes before it can reach the other side as it collides with an unusual blockage on the tracks: seven sheep penned in place. Specially requested to investigate the carnage in Gloucestershire, Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming ...

A goods train speeds through the Sapperton Tunnel, but disaster strikes before it can reach the other side as it collides with an unusual blockage on the tracks: seven sheep penned in place. Specially requested to investigate the carnage in Gloucestershire, Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming ...

A goods train speeds through the Sapperton Tunnel, but disaster strikes before it can reach the other side as it collides with an unusual blockage on the tracks: seven sheep penned in place. Specially requested to investigate the carnage in Gloucestershire, Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming ...

As the community of Exeter celebrate Guy Fawkes day, one notable person is missing from the festivities - Joel Haygate, the affable stationmaster. Only when the bonfire finally dies down, the charred remains of his body are found. Who would possibly want to murder a man so universally liked?

As the community of Exeter celebrate Guy Fawkes day, one notable person is missing from the festivities - Joel Haygate, the affable stationmaster. Only when the bonfire finally dies down, the charred remains of his body are found. Who would possibly want to murder a man so universally liked?

Young Imogen Burnhope and her maid Rhoda board a non-stop train to Oxford to visit her Aunt Cassandra, who waits on the platform at Oxford station where the train terminates, to greet them. Only they never arrive. The train is searched and the coachman swears he saw them board a first-class carri...