Buy this book on-line MARSTON**, EDWARD: : A TICKET TO OBLIVION.LONDON.ALLINSON & BUSBY,2014. ISBN 9780749014278.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[No number line but stated First Edition to reverse of title page. FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj panels with red, black and yellow lettering to front and spine, similar lettered critics' reviews to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping.creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bight and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread, apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-383pp [paginated] includes 20 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages and a dedication page.
Author's 11th title in this Railway Detective 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.
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 coachman swears he saw them board a first-class carriage,but they seem to have vanished into thin air.
When he learns his daughter is missing,Sir Marcus Burnhope contacts Scotland Yard for help and Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming are assigned to the case.Is it a merely a case of a runaway girl? Or is there a more sinsister, larger conspiracy at work?
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