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A Ticket to Oblivion: A puzzling mystery for the Railway Detective
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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. All the passengers alight but the two women are nowhere to be seen. The train is searched and the coachman swears he saw them board onto first class, but they seem to have vanished into thin air. The Railway Detective must unravel the mystifying web of their disappearance before Imogen and Rhoda vanish into oblivion for good.
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Edward Marston
Edward Marston has written well over a hundred books, including some non-fiction. He is best known for his hugely successful Railway Detective series and he also writes the Bow Street Rivals series featuring twin detectives set during the Regency; the Home Front Detective novels set during the First World War; and the Ocean Liner mysteries.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A great story - it's one of the best in the series so far. Maybe it's time for Madeline, Colbeck's wife to take a bigger role in the investigations.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Once again the Railway Detective, Robert Colbeck of Scotland Yard & his Sargent Leeming are called upon to solve a mystery.Imogene and her maid are helped and settled onto the train to Oxford, where they will stay with Imogene's cousin, Emma. For once Imogene's over-protective mother will not be traveling with them.When the train arrives at Oxford Station, Imogene's aunt Cassandra & cousin Emma are there to meet them... only the two women are nowhere to be found. Aunt Cassandra immediately calls the police & her brother-in-law (an upstanding member of Parliament) and he in turn calls Scotland Yard and demands the assistance of the "Railway Detective".As the book progresses, Colbeck quickly figures out that Imogene & her maid did get off the train at Oxford, but they were disguised as a soldier & his woman who met up and left with another soldier....Imogene and her maid believe they have run off to elope with the dashing Captain, leaving behind a gilded cage of a life and a truculent bully of a fiancee, who also happens to be a member of Parliament. In reality the Captain turns in to their kidnapper & tormentor.Yes, I liked the story, it was mostly well written and exciting... However, as always, it was ruined for me by the continual whining of Sargent Leeming (seriously he acts like a 3-4 year old) always dissatisfied & crying about having to ride trains, being away from his wife, having to deal with other people he is subordinate to, and other parts of his job, which is why I continually - ★As for Colbeck's new wife, Madeline & her fussy father, as usual, I skipped over those parts.I have one more book in this series next to my bed. If Sargent Leeming continues to act like a selfish child, I'll not continue with the series.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Another very enjoyable read in the Railway Detective Series. A woman and her maid get onto a train, the train doesn't stop at all and when it gets to the next stop they are nowhere to be found on the train! It is up to Inspector Colbeck, and his usual sidekick - Sergeant Leeming, to work out what has happened to them and to find them or their bodies. This was another book that moved along quickly, and was difficult to put down. It is a nice easy reading style and I do like the central group of characters. Watch out for a particularly horrible Member of Parliament amongst all this. If you haven't read any of the series I would recommend them.