num_pages: 288
description: 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. With the nation a-flutter in the run up to this national event a disembodied head is discovered on a passenger train at Crewe; the first in a murky course of events that takes in murder fraud and race-fixing. Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck and his assistant are assigned to the case and are soon snarled up in a web of skullduggery stretching across the country. They are forced to ask themselves just how much is someone prepared to hazard to win?
language: English
title: The Iron Horse
publisher: Allison and Busby