Title: The iron horse
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 skulduggery stretching across the country. They are forced to ask themselves, just how much is someone prepared to hazard to win?
Subjects: Fiction, Victor Leeming (Fictitious character), Police, History, Railroad travel, Horse racing, Corrupt practices, Large type books, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Great britain, fiction
Places: Great Britain
People: Robert Colbeck (Fictitious character)
Time periods: 19th century