Edward Marston
Steps to the Gallows
In 1816 London, Leonidas Paige, the writer of a satirical newspaper, hires a bodyguard – he has reason to think…
Dance of Death
Set in 1916, this is the fifth title in the Home Front Detective Series. Dancer Simon Wilder leaves his house,…
Timetable of Death
When the body of Vivian Quayle is discovered in an open grave in the Spondon village church, everyone is shocked.…
Shadow of the Hangman
London, 1815. The Napoleonic wars are over but Britain, although victorious, is reeling from civil unrest. The Home Secretary, Lord…
Deeds of Darkness
Deeds of Darkness is the fifth novel in the Home Front series by Edward Marston, and continues the detecting journey…
A Ticket to Oblivion
1858. Inspector Colbeck’s latest case involves the disappearance of a young lady, Imogen Burnhope, and her maid, travelling on a…
Five Dead Canaries
1916. In the third of Marston’s Home Front Detective series, six young female ‘canaries’ from a munitions factory supplying the…
Peril on the Royal Train
Scotland, 1858. Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming are back on their tenth case. A goods train has been deliberately derailed…
The Stationmaster’s Farewell
If you like a Victorian detective whodunit set in a railway background, largely around Exeter (UK) St David’s GWR train…
Instrument of Slaughter
In the bleak winter of 1916, war takes its increasing toll of young servicemen in France. For some Londoners, the…
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