num_pages: 288
description: As a train speeds over the Sankey Viaduct, the dead body of a man is hurled into the canal below. Inspector Robert Colbeck and Sergeant Victor Leeming take on the most difficult case they have yet faced. Hampered by the fact that the corpse has nothing on him to indicate his identity, they are baffled until a young woman comes forward to explain that the murder victim, Gaston Chabal, is an engineer, working on a major rail link in France. As the case takes on an international dimension, problems accumulate. Colbeck and Leeming have to survive personal danger, resistance from the French government, broadsides from their Superintendent, and many other setbacks before they solve the crime.
language: English
title: The Railway Viaduct
titlecomplete: The Railway Viaduct (The Railway Detective, #3)
genres: Fiction, Historical, Mystery, British Literature, Detective, Railways, Historical Mystery, Historical Fiction, Crime, Murder Mystery
ratings_count: 1235
series: The Railway Detective
publisher: Allison and Busby