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| The Amorous Nightingale |
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| Acclaimed beauty Harriet Gow was the envy of every woman as the King’s favorite mistress - until she was kidnapped that is. The early novels of the Christopher Redmayne series of Restoration era mysteries come to Allison & Busby.
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| A Bespoke Murder |
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| The author of the bestselling Railway Detective novels takes the English Home Front during WW1 as inspiration for a brand new series
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| A Bespoke Murder |
| Home Front Detective Book 1 |
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| London 1915. The sinking of the Lusitania sparks an unprecedented wave of anti-German attacks. Among the victims are the immigrant tailor Jacob Stein. Initially Jacob’s killing appears to be the tragic excess of wartime hysteria – but for Detective Inspector Marmion the possibility that the assault was long-premeditated becomes unavoidable
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| Blood on the Line |
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| Inspector Robert Colbeck has his work cut out for him when his nemesis Jeremy Oxley escapes while en route to his execution. A game of cat and mouse ensues that will bring the Railway Detective far from his home in Victorian London across the sea to the new World and New York.
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| Drums of War |
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| Captain Daniel Rawson readily accepts a dangerous undercover mission from the Duke of Marlborough. He must discover what has happened to a missing spy at Louis XIV’s court.
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| The Drums of War |
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| France 1705. Marlborough’s War and the Return of Captain Daniel Rawson.
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| The Excursion Train |
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| Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck is back to investigate two deaths on the rails. Will he catch the murderer before more lives are lost. . .
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| Fire and Sword |
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| Returning from a dangerous solo mission, Captain Daniel Rawson is caught up in a series of fiery raids on farms, apparently at the hands of English soldiers.
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| Fire and Sword |
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| Marston's loyal fan base have eagerly picked up the new series from the author of "The Railway Detective" books
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| Five Dead Canaries |
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| Marston takes the Home Front during the bleak days of the Great War as his inspiration with plenty of historical color
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| Frost Fair |
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| The River Thames is frozen over and the discovery of a dead body casts a pall over the annual Frost Fair.
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| An Instrument of Slaughter |
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| Home Front Detective, Book 2 |
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| As the Great War rumbles on, London, or the Home Front. serves as a tense backdrop for Marston's latest mystery series. The war is always uncomfortably close at hand and never more so than when the body of a young conscientious objector is found bludgeoned to death.
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| Instrument of Slaughter |
| Home Front Detective, Book 2 |
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| As the Great War rumbles on, London, or the Home Front. serves as a tense backdrop for Marston's latest mystery series. The war is always uncomfortably close at hand and never more so than when the body of a young conscientious objector is found bludgeoned to death.
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| The Iron Horse |
| A Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck Mystery |
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| 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 . . .
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| The King’s Evil |
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| The early novels of the Christopher Redmayne series of Restoration era mysteries come to Allison & Busby
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| The Painted Lady |
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| Marston’s period romps teem with authentic detail
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| The Painted Lady |
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| Marston’s period romps teem with authentic detail
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| The Parliament House |
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| ‘A grand romp very much in the tradition of Holmes and Watson--packed with characters Dickens would have been proud of. Wonderful and well written.’Time Out
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| The Parliament House |
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| Marston brilliantly combines solid historical research with warm, believable characters. A perfect combination of period setting and whodunit.
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| Peril in the Royal Train |
| A Railway Detective novel |
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| 1858. The death of two men aboard a derailed goods train brings Inspector Colbeck, the Railway Detective, north to the Caledonian Railway Company. What at first looks like industrial sabotage is traced to a larger conspiracy. The targets: the Queen and Prince Consort.
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| The Railway Detective Omnibus |
| The Railway Detective; The Excursion Train; The Railway Viaduct |
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| Collected together for the first time, the first three novels in Marston's Victorian mystery series
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| The Railway Detective |
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| First in a historical mystery series set in nineteenth centuryLondon. A robbery on the London-Birmingham mail train takesInspector Robert Colbeck into the heart of the seedy dens of the"Devil’s Acre"
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| Railway to the Grave |
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| Yorkshire 1855. Colonel Tarleton deliberately walks into the path of a speeding train and sets the wheels of an investigation in motion. The famous Railway Detective, Inspector Robert Colbeck, must sift through the rumors surrounding the deceased to discover if the suicide was the act of a guilty man.
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| Railway to the Grave |
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| The brand new novel in the bestselling Railway Detective series.
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| The Railway Viaduct |
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| ‘The past is brought to life with brilliant colours, combined with a perfect whodunit. Who needs more?’ – The Guardian
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| The Railway Viaduct |
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| Third novel in the popular crime series set on the grand railways of the
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| The Repentant Rake |
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| Could the disappearance of Sir Julius Cheever’s son, a notorious rakehell, and the fact that a blackmailer is terrorizing London’s most dissolute fops be connected?
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| The Silver Locomotive Mystery |
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| A silver teapot, a train journey, a gruesome murder, and even more crimes will test the deductive talents of the skilled Inspector Colbeck!
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| Soldier of Fortune |
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| ‘Consummate story-telling, a love of period and astute characterisation and plotting are the hallmarks of all his books… The past is brought to life with brilliant colours... Who needs more?’ Guardian
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| Soldier of Fortune |
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| The first in a series of adventure novels featuring Captain Rawson—spy, linguist, sportsman, duellist, ladies’ man and career soldier involved in the campaigns of the Duke of Marlborough during the war of the Spanish Succession.
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| The Stationmaster’s Farewell |
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| As the community of Exeter celebrates Guy Fawkes night, one notable person is missing from the festivities: Joel Heygate, the stationmaster at Exeter St David’s railway station.
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| The Stationmaster’s Farewell |
| A Railway Detective novel |
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| Guy Fawkes Night, 1857. Joel Heygate was the popular stationmaster at Exeter St David’s railway station. So the town is horrified when his remains are discovered in the embers of the annual Bonfire Night celebration. Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck unearths three suspects, but are they missing something?
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| Under Siege |
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| The adventures of Captain Daniel Rawson, adventurer, spy and charmer, have garnered Marston even more fans
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| Under Siege |
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| The latest historical novel featuring Captain Daniel Rawson.
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| A Very Murdering Battle |
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| 1709. The coldest winter for a century grips Europe and peace talks at the Hague reach an impasse. While war looms close at hand again, Marlborough gives Captain Daniel Rawson a personal mission which takes him deep behind enemy lines.
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| A Very Murdering Battle |
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| 1709. France’s people are starving and her army is weakened by desertions. King Louis XIV is searching for peace on almost any terms. Captain Daniel Rawson is sent on a dangerous mission to seek out vital information that could secure an advantageous peace deal for England.
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