Edward Marston
The King’s Evil
The King’s Evil is a reprint of the first of the Christopher Redmayne novels published in 1999, a historical mystery…
The Amorous Nightingale
In this, the second outing for Christopher Redmayne and Jonathon Bale, the architect and the constable are tasked by Charles…
Railway to the Grave
When a retired Army officer throws himself under a train leaving a note for his old friend, Superintendent Tallis of…
The Silver Locomotive Mystery
The sixth book in the Railway Detective series of Victorian mysteries, The Silver Locomotive Mystery brings back Inspector Robert…
Murder on the Brighton Express
This is the fifth book in the series which features Inspector Robert Colbeck and Sergeant Victor Leeming, and is set…
Soldier of Fortune
Edward Marston is famous as a writer of whodunits, which are published under at least three names. For the first…
The Painted Lady
This is Restoration comedy, the eighth whodunit in the popular Redmayne series. Christopher Redmayne, the young architect, is making his…
The Painted Lady
London, 1670s. To aid their seduction of the beautiful Araminta, four of London’s most dissolute rakes have set up The…
The Excursion Train
This second novel in the Detective Inspector Colbeck mysteries is now in reprint with a splendidly eye-catching new cover. Robert…
The Railway Detective
The first novel in the Detective Inspector Colbeck Mysteries has a handsome new cover in honour of its reprint. 1851:…
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