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1867: A large wooden box is loaded onto a train bound for Lincoln, its watchful escort insistent it remain in sight…
Murder on the Great Northern Railway
What you need to know before your trail
Amid the usual bustle at King’s Cross, a large wooden box is loaded onto a train bound for Lincoln, its watchful escort insistent it remain in sight. But a daring robbery derails those plans, leaving behind a dead man and a vanished treasure. Detective Inspector Colbeck is called in after a plea from the Dean of Lincoln Cathedral to find the killers and recover a priceless silver model of the cathedral. With the annual Horse Fair flooding the city with visitors, Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming must navigate a web of confusion to track the culprit, although Colbeck grows certain the thief is still close at hand. But time is short, and the Railway Detective faces one of his most complex cases yet
Locations
Reset- England - Lincolnshire - Lincoln
- A: Lincoln Train station
- B: Lincoln Cathedral
- C: Lincoln police station
- D: Lincoln horse fair
- E: Stonebow Centre
- England - Cambridgeshire
- F: Peterborough Railway Station
- G: Sawtry
Travel Guide
Lincoln
Lincoln is known for the impressive Lincoln Cathedral, and the historic Lincoln Castle housing the Magna Carta. This novel really gets into the history and atmosphere of the city and the time of the railways. Steep Hill is a picturesque cobbled street.
The Lincoln Cathedral is a key location in the novel and it is evoked in fine style as are the railways!
Lincoln is also a centre for heavy engineering during the Industrial Revolution.
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: Murder on the Great Northern Railway
Destination/location: Lincoln, Peterborough Author/Guide : Edward Marston Departure Time: 1867
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