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RAILWAY TO THE GRAVE

RAILWAY TO THE GRAVE

RAILWAY TO THE GRAVE
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RAILWAY TO THE GRAVE

by MARSTON**, EDWARD:

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ISBN 10
0749007729
ISBN 13
9780749007720
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 10 - 1 descending.] Bright,crisp,clean colour+sepia montage'd photographic images illustrated dw/dj panels with black+ red lettered front; with minimal shelf-wear,bumping and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.A small closed tear to top,rear corner tip; top+ lower front corners minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing as is the rear lower corner tip too,some miniscule chipping at head of spine along with minimal bumping and reciprocal creasing,foot of same also minimally bumped/creased.Top edge with some partial toning at head of spine,fore-edges brighter and cleaner without toning; contents bright,tight and clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips.Publisher's clean, original,plain black cloth boards with 3 of the 4 corner tips bumped,with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.A cloth wrinkle (production fault?) to top edge of rear board and book is lightly cocked.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9-350pp [paginated] includes 16 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,note on author,a dedication,and 2pp blanks at the rear.
Author's 7th book in this series.Marston's most prolific series,is his "Railway Detective" series, published by Allison & Busby (UK).This series is set in the middle of the 19th century against the background of the "Railway Age". It concerns two Scotland Yard detectives, Inspector Robert Colbeck and Sergeant Victor Leeming,whose cases are invariably linked to the railways. Colbeck is a former barrister who is enthralled by the railways and marries a railwayman's daughter. Leeming,in contrast,detests travelling by train and yearns for the days of horse-drawn transport.
Series begins with 'The Railway Detective' itself in 2004 - see my book IDs' rja693317 and rja808618 for UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edns. Yorkshire 1855.Colonel Aubrey Tarleton is a man respected by his neighbors in the small Yorkshire village of South Otterington - as much for his heroic feats in the army as for his social position.So the community is left stunned when Tarleton,deliberately,walks into the path of a speeding train.He is crushed to death on the track,but it is not his broken limbs that attract the attention of the train driver; rather, it is the note pinned to his chest,fluttering in the breeze: 'Whoever finds me,notify Superintendent Tallis of the Detective Department at Scotland Yard'. The famous Railway Detective,Inspector Robert Colbeck,finds his superior officer in great distress when he arrives at the Yard the following morning.Tallis is clutching a letter from his now-deceased friend.In it,Tarleton makes it clear that he no longer wishes to live if he has to do so without his beloved wife,who has disappeared.When the news arrives that a man's body has been found on the track near Thirsk, the coincidence is too great. Was Tarleton responsible for his wife's disappearance,and was his suicide the act of a guilty man? Tallis cannot believe that to be the case and sets out for Yorkshire, accompanied by Colbeck and his trusty Sergeant Victor Leeming, determined to uncover the truth.
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Bookseller
R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
rja953921
Title
RAILWAY TO THE GRAVE
Author
MARSTON**, EDWARD:
Book Condition
Used - VG+.
Jacket Condition
VG+.
Quantity Available
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Edition
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0749007729
ISBN 13
9780749007720
Publisher
LONDON.ALLINSON & BUSBY LIMITED,2010.
Place of Publication
London
This edition first published
2010-06
Keywords
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