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Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2019
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English
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"Halloween 1861. A special train with two carriages steams across the Lake District at night on its way to a place notorious for its record of supernatural incidents. Most of those on board have been fortified by alcohol so the mood is boisterous. Lighting inside the carriages is poor and without warning, the lamp goes out in the last compartment of the second carriage, plunging it into darkness. When the special reaches the end of its journey, the...
Author
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Robert Colbeck mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Author
Series
Home front detective mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Alison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Pentonville Prison. Wally Hibbert is serving a long sentence for arson. But after befriending and tricking one of the officers, Hibbert makes an audacious escape. Inspector Marmion, the detective who arrested Hibbert, is warned to watch his back, but it seems that Hibbert has another target in his murderous sights. However, the investigation is mired in confusion, the identities of killer and victim become increasingly ambiguous. An inmate at an internment...
Author
Series
Home front detective mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Allison & Busby, Limited
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In June 1916, a young woman is found murdered in a cinema. Harvery Marmion and Joe Keedy set out to find the killer who so elusively fled in the dark.
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Series
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
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Set in 19th century England, a bustling crowd boards the Great Western Railway Excursion train on their way to an illegal championship fight in Maidenhead. As the rowdiness of the crowd increases, the train s guard fears "for the safety of his rolling stock". The last thing he expects to find is the brutal murder of one of his passengers, Jake Bransby. Once the shocking discovery of the body is made, Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck and his assistant...
Author
Series
Home front detective mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
1916. As thousands of Brits are fighting on the Front Line, a new breed of women emerges to hold the Home Front together. Fiercely independent and fiery-spirited, the munitionettes, or 'canaries', are easily recognizable with their chemically-stained yellow faces. Among the raucous group of women is Florrie Duncan, who plans to celebrate her birthday in style at the Golden Goose publishing But the celebrations are cut short when all but one are killed...
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Series
Home front detective mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Investigating the murder of a conscientious objector during the height of World War I, Inspector Marmion and Sergeant Keedy find the case complicated by a lack of public sympathy and the popularity of a chief suspect.
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Series
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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October 1854. As an autumnal evening draws to a close, crowds of passengers rush onto the soon to depart London to Brighton Express. A man watches from shadows nearby, grimly satisfied when the train pulls out of the station.
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Publisher
Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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1859. St Mary's Church, Spondon. A little girl playing hide-and-seek jumps into a freshly-dug grave to find a dead man already occupying it. It is the body of a senior director of the Midland Railway. Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming travel to Derbyshire to investigate.
12) Dance of death
Author
Series
Home front detective mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The fifth book in the Home Front Detective Series. London, Autumn 1916. When he slips out of a house in the early hours of the morning, Simon Wilder is too preoccupied to realise that he is being stalked. As he walks along the street, lights begin to dim as a warning that there's another Zeppelin attack. Guns begin to pound away as British aeroplanes attack the Zeppelin. Suddenly, it bursts into flame and lights up the whole sky. The crowds cheer...
15) Points of danger
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Series
Publisher
Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
1861, East Anglia. Alone in a first-class carriage, the Swarbricks are robbed at gunpoint, but when the universally-admired Swarbrick fights back, the train robber takes more than money and jewellery, killing the man working to unify East Anglia's tangle of railway networks. Inspector Colbeck is brought in from London, as the only detective in Britain with enough expertise for the job. But as Swarbrick's glowing reputation begins to crumble, the line...
16) Orders to kill
Author
Series
Home front detective mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"December 1917. Ada Hobbes has cleaned for Dr Tindall for many years and begins this frosty morning like any other day. But it turns out the house is not empty after all. The blood-covered George Tindall is sprawled across the floor. Detective Inspector Harvey Marmion and Sergeant Joe Keedy arrive to a horrific scene. Someone enjoyed killing Tindall, without a doubt. Their investigation takes them out of London and on the trail of three different...
17) The unseen hand
Author
Series
Home front detective mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"It is the autumn of 1917, and at the luxurious Lotus Hotel in Chelsea, a maid is disrupted from her morning rounds by a horrifying discovery: instead of the dignified older lady who has been occupying a room, she finds the dead body of a much younger woman. Harvey Marmion and Joe Keedy are dispatched from Scotland Yard to investigate, and learn that she seems to have been poisoned. But who is this woman? And what has happened to the previous occupant...
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