By Edward Marston
The Railway Detective faces his most deadly adversary yet
1852. Inspector Robert Colbeck and his assistant Sergeant Victor Leeming are confronted with their most intricate and hard case to this point. As a teach speeds over the Sankey Viaduct, a guy is hurled from a carriage and plummets into the canal less than. It later transpires that he has been stabbed to loss of life. without papers through which to spot the guy, the detectives' research is hampered from the start.
Suspecting that the sufferer could have come from continental Europe, Colbeck and Leeming take the case to France the place a brand new railway is being outfitted by way of a British contractor. yet in a brand new state the detectives face new difficulties. Anti-British feeling is rife and Colbeck and Leeming needs to positioned their very own lives at risk to select up the murderer's trail.
The 3rd within the acclaimed Railway Detective sequence, The Railway Viaduct is an soaking up secret that may preserve you guessing until eventually the very end.
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Bonny halted in front of his wife with his boots just short of the water, and for a moment he seemed about to hit her. Then he hesitated, and his gaze fell away from hers, and he scowled across at Shandy. He fumbled a clasp knife out of his pocket—Shandy stepped back, snatching at his own—but when Bonny had unfolded his blade he pressed the point into the tip of his own left forefinger and flicked the blade outward, throwing a couple of drops of blood toward Shandy, and at the same time he began chanting a nonsensical multi-language rhyme.
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Someone was yelling. "Cap'n Davies! " Davies dropped his bottle into the sand. "That's Venner," he said thoughtfully. "How did that move go? " Shandy shut his eyes and pictured it. "Right. " As the two men trudged back toward the fires, Davies pulled a pistol out of his belt. "If Venner plays me square I can handle him," he said quietly. "But if he doesn't, I want you to hang back with this and make sure no—" He stopped talking suddenly and gave a weary laugh. "Never mind. " He put the pistol away and lengthened his stride.