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Edward Marston

Murder in Transit (Railway Detective 22)

By Edward Marston - Published 2024

Genres:

Thanks to an acquaintance, Superintendent Tallis assigns D.I. Colbeck and D.S. Leeming to a case of murder on a Portsmouth section ...Read Review

Danger of Defeat (Home Front Detective)

By Edward Marston - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

The tenth in the Home Front Detective series, this story is set in London in 1918. Inspector Harvey Marmion is called to attend a ...Read Review

Murder on the Celtic (Ocean Liner Mysteries, 8)

By Edward Marston - Published 2022

Genres:

Mystery/Crime Nautical

1910. Here we are for the eighth episode for the ocean detectives George Porter Dillman and his wife Genevieve, known professionally by her original ...Read Review

Murder at the Arizona Biltmore (Merlin Richards 1)

By Edward Marston - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Dissatisfied with life in his father’s practice in Wales, young architect Merlin Richards becomes entranced by the work of the American Frank ...Read Review

Homicide in Chicago (Merlin Richards 2)

By Edward Marston - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime Western

In this second in the series, moving from Arizona and his close association with his hero Frank Lloyd Wright, Merlin Richards moves to ...Read Review

Death at the Terminus (Railway Detective 21)

By Edward Marston - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

England 1865. At the behest of the railway company’s chairman, Inspector Robert Colbeck of Scotland Yard travels north to investigate the death of ...Read Review

Murder on the Oceanic (Ocean Liner Mysteries, 7)

By Edward Marston - Published 2022

Genres:

Mystery/Crime Nautical

The seventh in the Ocean Liner series sees our on-board detectives, the married duo George Porter Dillman and Genevieve Masefield, embark on the ...Read Review

Murder on the Salsette (Ocean Liner Mysteries, 6)

By Edward Marston - Published 2022

Genres:

Mystery/Crime Nautical

May 1909, and George Dillman and Genevieve Masefield embark upon their sixth ocean-going crime adventure in the series. Having been married at the end ...Read Review