Edward Marston

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  • Bibliography:
    93 Books (10 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1988
  • Latest Book:
    January 2024
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Full Series List in Order

An Architecture Mystery

1 - Murder at the Arizona Biltmore (Jul-2023)
2 - Homicide in Chicago (Jul-2023)

Bow Street Rivals

1 - Shadow of the Hangman (Feb-2015)
2 - Steps to the Gallows (Feb-2016)
3 - Date with the Executioner (Apr-2017)
4 - Fugitive from the Grave (Jun-2018)
5 - Rage of the Assassin (Jun-2020)

Captain Rawson

1 - Soldier of Fortune (Mar-2008)
2 - Drums of War (Mar-2009)
3 - Fire and Sword (Mar-2010)
4 - Under Siege (Feb-2011)

A Christopher Redmayne Mystery

1 - The Parliament House (Mar-2006)
2 - The Painted Lady (Apr-2007)

The Domesday Books

1 - The Wolves of Savernake (Sep-1993)
2 - The Ravens of Blackwater (Sep-1994)
3 - The Dragons of Archenfield (Sep-1995)
4 - The Lions of the North (Sep-1996)
5 - The Serpents of Harbledown (1996)
6 - The Stallions of Woodstock (Dec-1998)
7 - The Foxes of Warwick (1999)
8 - The Hawks of Delamere (Feb-2000)
9 - The Wildcats of Exeter (Jan-2001)
10 - The Owls of Gloucester (Apr-2003)
11 - The Elephants of Norwich (Sep-2021)

An Elizabethan Theater Mystery

1 - The Queen's Head (1988)
2 - The Merry Devils (Dec-1989)
3 - The Trip to Jerusalem (Oct-1990)
4 - The Nine Giants (Sep-1991)
5 - The Mad Courtesan (Nov-1992)
6 - The Silent Woman (1992)
7 - The Roaring Boy (Jul-1995)
8 - The Laughing Hangman (Aug-1996)
9 - The Fair Maid of Bohemia (Jun-1997)
10 - The Wanton Angel (Jul-1999)
11 - The Devil's Apprentice (Aug-2001)
12 - The Bawdy Basket (Aug-2002)
13 - The Vagabond Clown (Aug-2003)
14 - The Counterfeit Crank (Aug-2004)
15 - The Malevolent Comedy (Jul-2005)
16 - The Princess of Denmark (Sep-2006)

Home Front Detective

1 - A Bespoke Murder (Oct-2011)
2 - Instrument of Slaughter (Nov-2012)
3 - Five Dead Canaries (Feb-2014)
4 - Deeds of Darkness (Aug-2015)
5 - Dance of Death (Nov-2015)
6 - The Enemy Within (Dec-2016)
7 - Under Attack (Dec-2017)
8 - The Unseen Hand (Jun-2019)
9 - Orders to Kill (Oct-2021)
10 - Danger of Defeat (Oct-2023)

Insepctor Robert Colbeck, Railway Detective

1 - The Railway Detective (Mar-2004)
2 - The Excursion Train (Jun-2005)
3 - The Railway Viaduct (Sep-2006)
4 - The Iron Horse (Sep-2007)
5 - Murder on the Brighton Express (Oct-2008)
6 - The Silver Locomotive Mystery (Sep-2009)
7 - Railway to the Grave (Jun-2010)
8 - Blood on the Line (Apr-2011)
9 - The Stationmaster's Farewell (Jul-2012)
10 - Peril on the Royal Train (Jul-2013)
11 - A Ticket to Oblivion (Feb-2015)
12 - Timetable of Death (Jun-2015)
13 - Signal for Vengeance (Aug-2016)
14 - The Circus Train Conspiracy (Aug-2017)
15 - A Christmas Railway Mystery (Oct-2017)
16 - Points of Danger (Oct-2018)
17 - Fear on the Phantom Special (Oct-2019)
18 - Slaughter in the Sapperton Tunnel (Sep-2020)
19 - Tragedy on the Branch Line (Apr-2021)
20 - The Railway Detective's Christmas Case (Oct-2022)
21 - Death at the Terminus (Apr-2023)
Inspector Colbeck's Casebook (Aug-2014)

An Ocean Liner Mystery

1 - Murder on the Lusitania (Feb-2022)
2 - Murder on the Mauretania (Feb-2022)
3 - Murder on the Minnesota (Feb-2022)
4 - Murder on the Caronia (Feb-2022)
5 - Murder on the Marmora (Apr-2022)
6 - Murder on the Salsette (Apr-2022)
7 - Murder on the Oceanic (Jun-2022)
8 - Murder on the Celtic (Jun-2022)

A Restoration Mystery

1 - The King's Evil (Aug-1999)
2 - The Amorous Nightingale (Jul-2000)
3 - The Repentant Rake (Aug-2001)
4 - The Frost Fair (Feb-2003)

Book List in Order: 93 titles

  • The Queen's Head

    • / Historical Mystery
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    An Elizabethan Theater Mystery - 1

    Stage manager for one of Elizabethan England's famed acting companies, Nicholas Bracewell investigates the brutal murder of a hot-headed actor and uncovers a conspiracy that leads to the court of Elizabeth I...

  • The Merry Devils

    An Elizabethan Theater Mystery - 2

    HE HAD THE POWER TO ASSUME A PLEASING SHAPE, BUT WOULD HE TAKE TO THE STAGE...? The audience was merry indeed when a third devilish imp bounded onstage to join the two that had been written into the script. But backstage all was uproar. The third ...

  • The Trip to Jerusalem

    An Elizabethan Theater Mystery - 3

    Traveling from plague-ridden Elizabethan London to York, Nicholas Bracewell and his acting troupe, Lord Westfield's Men, mourn the sudden death of one member, learn that their arch-rivals are pirating their best plays, and suspect an even more menaci...

  • The Nine Giants

    An Elizabethan Theater Mystery - 4

    "Brimming with life, colorful dialogue, and, of course, drama."

    PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

    The celebrated Elizabethan theatre company known as Lord Westfield's Men is being scared nearly to death. Then when stage manager Nichlas Bracewell pulls ...

  • The Silent Woman

    • / Historical Mystery
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    An Elizabethan Theater Mystery - 6

    When fire destroys their London theater, Lord Westfield's players must seek out humbler venues in the countryside. But company manager Nicholas Bracewell is distracted by a shocking tragedy: a mysterious messenger from his native Devon is murdered by...

  • The Mad Courtesan

    An Elizabethan Theater Mystery - 5

    BUTCHERY OUTSIDE A LONDON BROTHEL HAS WESTFIELD'S MEN IN DISARRAY. The axe murder of gentleman player Sebastian Carrick is only the first of many bitter blows to strike the celebrated acting troupe. Feuds blossom among players. A rival company lau...

  • The Wolves of Savernake

    The Domesday Books - 1

    DOMESDAY IS COMING. In 1086 England's mighty king, William the Conqueror, sends out surveyors and census takers to record the resources of his land and its people. Some welcome these inquisitive royal agents and their "day of judgment. " Others ha...

  • The Ravens of Blackwater

    The Domesday Books - 2

    DOMESDAY IS COMING In 1086, England's mighty king, William the Conqueror, sends out surveyors and census takers to record the resources of his land and its people. Some welcome these inquisitive royal agents and their "day of judgment." Others hat...

  • The Roaring Boy

    An Elizabethan Theater Mystery - 7

    "COLORFUL . . . A BREATHTAKING CLIMAX."
    --Publishers Weekly
    DAME FORTUNE HAS ABANDONED LORD WESTFIELD'S MEN TO CALAMITY . . .
    One member of the popular London acting troupe has died. Their present production is a failure. Then an anonymous ...



  • The Dragons of Archenfield

    The Domesday Books - 3

    DOMESDAY IS COMING In 1086, England's mighty king, William the Conqueror, sends out surveyors and census takers to record the resources of his land and its people. Some welcome these inquisitive royal agents and their "day of judgment." Others hat...

  • The Serpents of Harbledown

    • / Historical Mystery
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    The Domesday Books - 5

    Perplexing clues lead commissioners Ralph Delchard and Gervase Gret to the hospital, where a young murder victim named Bertha, found dead with snakebites on her neck, volunteetered, and they begin searching for an evil force incarnate....

  • The Laughing Hangman

    An Elizabethan Theater Mystery - 8

    Jonas Applegarth is a brilliant but belligerent playwright. When his play, The Misfortunes of Marriage, is performed by Westfield's Men, it causes an uproar. All of Applegarth's enemies attack the company. Nicholas Bracewell defends the playwright lo...

  • The Lions of the North

    The Domesday Books - 4

    William the Conqueror sends Gervase Bret and Ralph Delchard into the lands of Yorkshire to investigate a rogue named Olaf Evil Child, but on the way, they hear rumors of two lions owned by a rich merchant that have been killing people....

  • Murder Mid-Atlantic

    in Malice Domestic 6

    Esteemed mystery writer Anne Perry, author of twenty-five novels and two acclaimed detective series, heads up a delectable cast of contemporary writers, the very best from both sides of the Atlantic. In the tradition of Britain's honored crime writer...

  • The Fair Maid of Bohemia

    An Elizabethan Theater Mystery - 9

    When plague strikes London, Lord Westfield's Men count themselves fortunate they've been invited to perform as part of the wedding celebrations for Sophia Magdalena, the fair maid of Bohemia. The long

    journey across Europe is a daunting prospe...

  • Domesday Deferred

    in Crime Through Time II

    A GOOD MYSTERY IS TIMELESS Crime Through Time was the remarkable first collection. Now, bestselling mystery authors Miriam Grace Monfredo and Sharan Newman present Crime Through Time II -- featuring even more never-before-published historical myster...

  • The Stallions of Woodstock

    The Domesday Books - 6

    The seventh volume of the popular Domesday books, set in the time of England's William the Conqueror, follows Ralph Delchard and Gervase Bret to Oxford, where they become involved in the investigation surrounding a rider's murder during a horse race....

  • The Foxes of Warwick

    • / Historical Mystery
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    The Domesday Books - 7

    Henry Beaumont keeps a renowned pack of foxhounds: quick, brave and ruthless at the kill. Yet one December hunt, the dogs uncover more than a fox in the woodlands-brushing aside dead leaves, Beaumont finds the crushed body of Martin Reynard, a former...

  • The Wanton Angel

    An Elizabethan Theater Mystery - 10

    In the tenth installment of this dramatic Elizabethan series, Westfield’s Men are flying high after a celebrated performance of The Insatiate Duke at the Queen’s Head. However, victory is bittersweet as the company is soon faced with dissolution ...



  • The King's Evil

    A Restoration Mystery - 1

    A PERILOUS INVESTIGATION IN THE HEART OF LONDON RAVAGED BY THE GREAT FIRE September 1666. Meeting in the ashes of a devastated London, Christopher Redmayne, an architect with Cavalier instincts, and Jonathan Bale, a Puritan constable, are hardly kind...

  • The Hawks of Delamere

    The Domesday Books - 8

    When Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester, leads a hunting party into the Forest of Delamere his prized hawk is killed by an arrow. Two poachers are discovered hiding in the forest, and the Earl demands that they be imprisoned, but unanswered questions linger...

  • The Amorous Nightingale

    A Restoration Mystery - 2

    London 1667. Acclaimed beauty and singer Harriet Gow is the star performer at the famous Theatre Royal on Drury Lane, as well as the favourite mistress of King Charles II. After seeing her perform, Christopher Redmayne is likewise captivated so he is...

  • The Wildcats of Exeter

    The Domesday Books - 9

    Nicolas Picard is riding home from Exeter when he's attacked by a snarling wildcat. Yet, when the body is found, there are lacerations on his neck put there by a human hand. He is involved in a land dispute and his wife claims to be the benefacto...

  • The Devil's Apprentice

    An Elizabethan Theater Mystery - 11

    London is in the grip of an icy winter and Westfield's Men are out of work. Invited to perform at a manor house in Essex, they accept willingly even though the offer comes with two conditions: they must perform an entirely new play and agree to take ...

  • The Repentant Rake

    A Restoration Mystery - 3

    As Redmayne and Bale find themselves embrolied in the hunt for a murderer, a repentant rake, they must overcoming setbacks and attempts on their lives. Pursuing their enquiries throughout London and beyond, they find their way through corruption, pol...

  • The Bawdy Basket

    An Elizabethan Theater Mystery - 12

    Theatre troupe Westfield’s Men take on a new actor, Francis Quilter, after reaching new heights of success. But with the new member, brings new trouble. Quilter’s father, Gerard, is on trial for the murder of an enemy, but he denies the charge an...

  • The Frost Fair

    A Restoration Mystery - 4

    Christmas, 1669. In the grip of the coldest winter for years, the River Thames is frozen from bank to bank and London celebrates with a traditional frost fair held on its broad back. Revellers come from far and wide to enjoy the spectacle: an ox is r...

  • The Owls of Gloucester

    The Domesday Books - 10

    The ordered calm of Gloucester Abbey is shattered by the disappearance of one of the resident monks. Two novices, Elaf and Kenelm, show little concern for the missing Brother Nicholas. Rebelling against monastic discipline, they indulge in secret mid...

  • The Vagabond Clown

    An Elizabethan Theater Mystery - 13

    When unexpected disaster strikes Lord Westfield's Men during a packed performance, Nicholas Bracewell, the theater company's stage manager and all around performer of miracles, must save the day once again. A melee caused by disguised men is brought ...



  • Bon Voyage

    in The Sunken Sailor

    Fourteen masters of the mystery and suspense genre--including Jan Burke, Carolyn Hart, Simon Brett, and Edward Marston--each contribute an individual chapter to a round robin mystery about a weekend house party in a small English village that is turn...

  • The Railway Detective

    Insepctor Robert Colbeck, Railway Detective - 1

    London 1851. With the opening of the Great Exhibition at hand, interest is mounting in the engineering triumphs of the railways, but not everyone feels like celebrating… In an audacious attack, the London to Birmingham mail train is robbed and dera...

  • The Counterfeit Crank

    An Elizabethan Theater Mystery - 14

    Nicholas Bracewell, the book holder and stage manager for the popular London theater troupe Westfield's Men, has a few problems on his hands. Edmund Hoode, the troupe's talented playwright, has fallen ill and is unable to complete his next opus. But ...

  • The Excursion Train

    Insepctor Robert Colbeck, Railway Detective - 2

    A PERPLEXING NEW CASE FOR THE RAILWAY DETECTIVE On the shocking discovery of a passenger's body on the Great Western Railway excursion train, Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck and his assistant, Sergeant Victor Leeming, are dispatched to the scen...

  • The Malevolent Comedy

    An Elizabethan Theater Mystery - 15

    The theaters of Elizabethan England can be a very dangerous environment. With dozens of troupes competing for the attentions of a fickle theater-going public, rival companies regularly resort to nefarious activities to thwart a competitor's success, ...

  • Murder, Ancient and Modern

    TWO THOUSAND YEARS OF MURDER!!!! Iddo the Samaritan finds a severed head in a barrel of fish. A stammerer tries to save the life of the Emperor Charlemagne. William the Conqueror stares death in the face. Gerald of Wales solves a crime with the help ...

  • The Parliament House

    A Christopher Redmayne Mystery - 1

    London, 1670. Commissioned to design and build a new house for Francis Polegate, a merchant, Christopher Redmayne is pleased when the project is completed without a hitch. To celebrate the success of the venture, Polegate throws a party and invites C...

  • The Princess of Denmark

    An Elizabethan Theater Mystery - 16

    Winter approaches and Westfields Men are out of work. When their widowed patron decides to marry again, he chooses a Danish bride with vague associations to the royal family. Since the wedding will take place in Copenhagen, the troupe is invited to p...

  • The Railway Viaduct

    Insepctor Robert Colbeck, Railway Detective - 3

    As a train speeds over the Sankey Viaduct, the dead body of a man is hurled into the canal below. Inspector Robert Colbeck and Sergeant Victor Leeming take on the most difficult case they have yet faced. Hampered by the fact that the corpse has nothi...

  • The Painted Lady

    A Christopher Redmayne Mystery - 2

    Araminta Jewell is one of the beauties of her day. Even her marriage to the staid and ugly Sir Martin Culthorpe has not discouraged her hordes of admirers. It is during her first sitting for a portrait painted by the fashionable French artist Jean-Pa...



  • The Iron Horse

    Insepctor Robert Colbeck, Railway Detective - 4

    Derby Day at Epsom Downs. A multitude of people crowd to watch the races: dukes and dustmen, bishops and beggars, privileged ladies and prostitutes--the gamut of Victorian society and a hotbed for crime and crooks of all kinds. With the nation a-...

  • Soldier of Fortune

    Captain Rawson - 1

    The dashing Captain Daniel Rawson �" spy, linguist, duellist, ladies’ man and career soldier �" can charm a lady as well as he can parry a sword. And whether it is extracting information from the wife of a French general or leading his soldiers i...

  • Murder on the Brighton Express

    Insepctor Robert Colbeck, Railway Detective - 5

    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… Chaos, fatalities and ...

  • Drums of War

    Captain Rawson - 2

    France 1705. Captain Daniel Rawson is always ready for an adventure, so when Duke of Marlborough proposes a dangerous undercover mission to discover what happened to one of their spies, a Dutch tapestry-maker, Rawson happily accepts. He journey’s t...

  • The Silver Locomotive Mystery

    Insepctor Robert Colbeck, Railway Detective - 6

    This is the Railway Detective's puzzling new case. An exquisitely designed silver coffee-pot in the shape of a locomotive is on its way to Cardiff in the care of the young, talented silversmith, Hugh Kellow. It has been commissioned by wealthy ironma...

  • Fire and Sword

    Captain Rawson - 3

    Returning to camp from a dangerous solo mission behind enemy lines, career soldier Daniel Rawson finds himself stranded on foot with French soldiers in fierce pursuit. With help from a local farmer and the loan of a horse, Daniel manages to escape by...

  • Railway to the Grave

    Insepctor Robert Colbeck, Railway Detective - 7

    Tragedy strikes close to the Detective Department when an old army friend of Superintendent Tallis walks to meet a speeding train head on.The suicide, prompted by the disappearance of the man's wife, has shocked the local community and leaves plenty ...

  • Under Siege

    Captain Rawson - 4

    In the wake of victory at Oudenarde, career soldier Captain Daniel Rawson must take a leading role in the Allies' new strategy - to invade further into French territories and lay siege to Lille, the 'pearl of its fortresses'.He fights alongside the D...

  • Blood on the Line

    Insepctor Robert Colbeck, Railway Detective - 8

    1857. On the LNWR train to London, a criminal is being escorted to his appointment with the hangman. But the wily Jeremy Oxley, conman, thief and murderer, has one last ace up his sleeve �" a beautiful and ruthless accomplice willing to do anything ...

  • A Bespoke Murder

    Home Front Detective - 1

    May 1915. As zeppelin bombs fall on London and with the sinking of the Lusitania, anti-German hysteria reaches fever pitch and attacks on German immigrants surge. Not even the West End of London is immune. Jacob Stein's bespoke tailoring business com...



  • A Very Murdering Battle

    1709. Europe is in the grip of the coldest winter for a century. Ports freeze. Cattle die. People starve. Mutiny and desertions rattle the French army leaving Louis X1V to search for peace on almost any terms. Captain Daniel Rawson acts as an inte...

  • The Stationmaster's Farewell

    Insepctor Robert Colbeck, Railway Detective - 9

    1857. Only when the bonfire finally dies down, are the charred remains of his body are found. Who would possibly want to murder a man so universally liked? It's the question Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck and Sergeant Victor Lemming ask when ...

  • Instrument of Slaughter

    Home Front Detective - 2

    January 1916. Britain is on the brink of enforcing conscription. Eligible young men who have not yet signed up to fight are despised as ‘conchies’ and ‘shirkers’, subjected to hatred and verbal abuse. Cyril Ablatt, leader of Shoreditch’s gr...

  • Peril on the Royal Train

    Insepctor Robert Colbeck, Railway Detective - 10

    Spring, 1858. The route of the Caledonian Railway through the southern uplands of the Scottish countryside is disrupted by a fatal crash. Inspector Robert Colbeck and Sergeant Victor Leeming are called from the crime of London to investigate, and mus...

  • Five Dead Canaries

    Home Front Detective - 3

    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 recognisable with their chemically-sta...

  • Inspector Colbeck's Casebook

    Insepctor Robert Colbeck, Railway Detective

    An eagerly awaited collection of brand new, specially commissioned short stories from the master of historical crime fiction Edward Marston, featuring his quick-witted Railway Detective, Inspector Robert Colbeck. In this thrilling selection of storie...

  • Shadow of the Hangman

    Bow Street Rivals - 1

    In this first instalment of the Bow Street Rivals series a riot breaks out in Dartmoor prison, enabling some American inmates to escape. The twin detectives Peter and Paul Skillen catch wind of a projected assassination but the target is unknown. Tro...

  • A Ticket to Oblivion

    Insepctor Robert Colbeck, Railway Detective - 11

    Young Imogen Burnhope and her maid Rhoda board a non-stop train to Oxford to visit her Aunt Cassandra, who waits on the platform at Oxford station where the train terminates, to greet them. Only they never arrive. The train is searched and the coachm...

  • Timetable of Death

    Insepctor Robert Colbeck, Railway Detective - 12

    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 Cedric Norton, a senior director of the Midland Railway. Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Lee...

  • Deeds of Darkness

    Home Front Detective - 4

    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. Before long, two more victims, of striking similarity but differing backgrounds, are found dead aro...

  • Dance of Death

    Home Front Detective - 5

    London, Autumn 1916. When he slips out of a house in the early hours of the morning, Simon Wilder is too preoccupied to realize that he is being stalked. As he walks along the street, lights begin to dim as a warning that there’s a...

  • Steps to the Gallows

    Bow Street Rivals - 2

    A scurrilous newspaper has built up a large following by publishing details of political and sexual scandals. It is remarkably well-informed and has therefore created a whole host of enemies. When the editor is killed and the printing press smashed t...

  • Signal for Vengeance

    Insepctor Robert Colbeck, Railway Detective - 13

    1860, Wimborne, Dorset. Rebecca Tullidge, miserably married to her callous husband, is having an affair with a railway officer, who she finds dead on the railway tracks. Determined to win votes for the upcoming election of mayor, Mr Feltham calls for...

  • The Enemy Within

    Home Front Detective - 6

    Pentonville Prison. Wally Hubbard is serving a long sentence for arson. But after befriending and tricking one of the officers, Hubbard makes an audacious escape. Inspector Marmion, the detective who arrested Hubbard, is warned to watch his back, but...

  • Date with the Executioner

    Bow Street Rivals - 3

    1817. Dawn breaks on a summer’s day in Chalk Farm, London, and the scene is set for a duel between a lady’s two ardent admirers. Paul Skillen has been teaching Mark Bowerman how to shoot properly and, although he is not sanguine of his chances, s...

  • The Circus Train Conspiracy

    Insepctor Robert Colbeck, Railway Detective - 14

    Following a string of successful performances, the Moscardi Circus is travelling by train to Newcastle for their next show. Yet a collision on the track with a couple of sleepers causes pandemonium: passengers are thrown about, animals escape into th...

  • A Christmas Railway Mystery

    Insepctor Robert Colbeck, Railway Detective - 15

    December 1860. Headed for the morning shift at the Swindon Locomotive works is an army of men pouring out of terraced houses built by the GWR, a miniature town and planned community that aims to provide for its employees from cradle to grave. Unfortu...

  • Under Attack

    Home Front Detective - 7

    June, 1917. While German Gotha bombers raid London from above, a man’s body is fished from the Thames below. The man had been garrotted and his tongue cut out before he was left to his watery grave, and as the killer has taken care to remove identi...

  • Fugitive from the Grave

    Bow Street Rivals - 4

    1817. Clemency van Emden receives an anonymous terse message informing her that her estranged father is dead and buried. A chance encounter on a busy London street leads her to twin detectives Peter and Paul Skillen, who agree to help her unravel the...

  • Points of Danger

    Insepctor Robert Colbeck, Railway Detective - 16

    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 ta...

  • The Unseen Hand

    Home Front Detective - 8

    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 youn...

  • Fear on the Phantom Special

    Insepctor Robert Colbeck, Railway Detective - 17

    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. Wi...

  • Rage of the Assassin

    Bow Street Rivals - 5

    London, 1817. An impatient crowd is gathered outside the stage door of the Covent Garden Theatre, desperate for a glimpse of actress Hannah Granville after her latest performance as Lady Macbeth, amongst them the Prince Regent himself. But before she...

  • Slaughter in the Sapperton Tunnel

    Insepctor Robert Colbeck, Railway Detective - 18

    1862. A goods train is speeding through the Sapperton Tunnel when it hits a makeshift pen of sheep inexplicably set up near the exit. The animals are slaughtered by the impact whilst the train hits a pile of rocks and is derailed, seriously injuring ...

  • Tragedy on the Branch Line

    Insepctor Robert Colbeck, Railway Detective - 19

    When Robert Pomeroy, a young undergraduate at Corpus Christi College, finds a letter slipped under his door in the early hours of a rainy day, he flies into a panic. Hastily readying himself and dashing off a few lines for the porter to summon his fr...

  • The Elephants of Norwich

    The Domesday Books - 11

    It is the juiciest piece of gossip the citizens of Norwich have heard for a long time. The ruthless Richard de Fontenel is himself the victim of robbery. In addition to two priceless golden elephants that he was using to lure the beautiful Adelaide i...

  • Orders to Kill

    Home Front Detective - 9

    'Edward Marston is a master of his craft.' Daily MailDecember 1917. Ada Hobbes arrives on a frosty morning to clean the house owned by Dr Tindall, a surgeon at the Edmonton Military Hospital. She is shocked to find the blood-covered body of her emplo...

  • Murder on the Caronia

    An Ocean Liner Mystery - 4

    A maritime mystery from Edward Marston, author of the bestselling Railway Detective series.New York, 1908. While waiting to embark on the Caronia, the Cunard Line's famous ocean liner, private detectives George Dillman and Genevieve Masefield are sta...

  • Murder on the Lusitania

    An Ocean Liner Mystery - 1

    A maritime mystery from Edward Marston, author of the bestselling Railway Detective series.September 1907. George Dillman sets sail from Liverpool to New York on the Lusitania's maiden voyage. Posing as a passenger, Dillman is in fact an undercover d...

  • Murder on the Mauretania

    An Ocean Liner Mystery - 2

    A maritime mystery from Edward Marston, author of the bestselling Railway Detective series.November 1907. George Dillman and Genevieve Masefield sail from Liverpool on the maiden voyage of the Mauretania. While posing as a passenger George is in fac...

  • Murder on the Minnesota

    An Ocean Liner Mystery - 3

    A maritime mystery from Edward Marston, author of the bestselling Railway Detective series.New York, 1908. Private detectives George Dillman and Genevieve Masefield plan to take a break from work upon the Cunard Line's fleet with the offer of employm...

  • Murder on the Marmora

    An Ocean Liner Mystery - 5

    A maritime mystery from Edward Marston, author of the bestselling Railway Detective series.Egypt, 1908. George Dillman and Genevieve Masefield, used to the grand opulence of the Cunard cruise line, are at first disappointed with the Marmora, a small,...

  • Murder on the Salsette

    An Ocean Liner Mystery - 6

    A maritime mystery from Edward Marston, author of the bestselling Railway Detective series.Bombay, 1909. Genevieve Masefield and George Dillman make a living as detectives aboard the early twentieth century's most extravagant ocean liners. From the m...

  • Murder on the Celtic

    An Ocean Liner Mystery - 8

    A maritime mystery from Edward Marston, author of the bestselling Railway Detective series.New York, 1910. George Dillman and Genevieve Masefield have crossed the Atlantic Ocean numerous times in their capacity as ship's detectives. On those crossing...

  • Murder on the Oceanic

    An Ocean Liner Mystery - 7

    A maritime mystery from Edward Marston, author of the bestselling Railway Detective series.Southampton, 1910. When the Oceanic sets sail its ultimate destination is New York. But it must make one very important stop first: at Cherbourg, to pick up in...

  • The Railway Detective's Christmas Case

    Insepctor Robert Colbeck, Railway Detective - 20

    An excursion train comes through a tunnel in the Malvern Hills to be confronted by a blockage on the line ahead. The driver manages to slow the train down so that the impact is minimised, but the sharp jolt alarms the passengers. The first person to ...

  • Death at the Terminus

    Insepctor Robert Colbeck, Railway Detective - 21

    1865. A passenger train stands in York station. Jack Follis, the guard, patrols the platform to make sure that everyone is safely aboard. He returns to the brake van to load a box into it. Follis is alarmed by a smell of burning. Before he can find o...

  • Days In Clover

    This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor p...

  • An Old Man's Holidays

    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...

  • On a Sunshine Holyday

    This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor p...

  • Homicide in Chicago

    An Architecture Mystery - 2

    First published as Saint's Rest under Keith Miles.Chicago, 1931. While the Great Depression has tightened its grip on the world, there are still some men who have the means to make their dreams a reality. One of these men is Hobart St. John, who want...

  • Murder at the Arizona Biltmore

    An Architecture Mystery - 1

    First published as Murder in Perspective under Keith Miles.Inspired by a handwritten note from his idol, Frank Lloyd Wright, Merlin Richards sets off from the Welsh valleys to the Arizona desert to launch his architectural career. Nowhere in Wright's...

  • Danger of Defeat

    Home Front Detective - 10

    February, 1918. In the small hours of a cold morning, a burglary in Limehouse has escalated into a sinister siege between a band of thieves and the authorities, and a police constable lies dead. Detective Inspector Harvey Marmion and Detective Sergea...

  • Murder in Transit

    On a dark, brooding evening on the Isle of Wight, Agnes Raybould and her companion find themselves an empty first-class compartment on the train. But before long a middle-aged man, clearly in high spirits after dining at his club, joins them, and beg...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Edward Marston has published 93 books.

The next book by Edward Marston, Murder in Transit, will be published in January 2024.

The first book by Edward Marston, The Queen's Head, was published in January 1988.

Yes. Edward Marston has 10 series.
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