Murder in Transit - Edward Marston
Category: Mystery
Tags: Mystery, Adults, Historical Fiction
Railway Detective, Book 22 Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins Publisher: 2024 Soundings, 1866. On a dark, brooding summers evening, Agnes Lenham seats herself in an empty first-class compartment on the train to Portsmouth. A naval officer and a middle-aged man, in high spirits after dining at his club, travelling to his home on the Isle of Wight, join her. His name is Giles Blanchard and within moments of the train leaving the station, the sailor strangles him . . ., At Scotland Yard, Detective Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming are called to Superintendent Talliss office, and given details of the violent murder. Their investigation will take them all the way to Osborne House, Queen Victorias favourite country home, to find out exactly what took place on that dreadful, eerie night.
