Murder on the Great Northern Railway: The bestselling Victorian mystery series (Railway Detective) Hardcover

April 1867

Amid the usual bustle at King's Cross, a large wooden box is loaded onto a train bound for Lincoln. Its watchful escort is insistent it remain in sight. However, a daring robbery derails those plans, leaving behind:

• A dead man
• A vanished treasure

Detective Inspector Colbeck is called in after a plea from the Dean of Lincoln Cathedral to:

• Find the killers
• Recover a priceless silver model of the cathedral

With the annual Horse Fair flooding the city with visitors, Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming must navigate a web of confusion to track the culprit. Colbeck grows certain the thief is still close at hand.

But time is short, and the Railway Detective faces one of his most complex cases yet.