Can a killer ever be above the law?
Deputy Stuart Kofer is a protected man. Though he's turned his drunken rages
Books Historical Fiction Books Summer, 1858. Young Imogen Burnhope & her maid Rhoda board a non-stop train to Oxford to visit Imogen's Aunt Cassandra, who waits on the platform at the terminus to greet them. All the passengers alight at Oxford, but the two women are nowhere to be seen. The train is searched & the coachman swears he saw them join first class, however they seem to have vanished into thin air. When he learns his daughter is missing, Sir Marcus Burnhope contacts Scotland Yard for help. Inspector Colbeck & Sergeant Leeming are assigned to the case & are advised to tread carefully around Sir Marcus
- an MP who is used to getting what he wants. With witnesses confirming the impossible
- that the women boarded the train
- is it a simple case of runaways? Or is there a larger, more sinister conspiracy at work? The Railway Detective must unravel the mystifying web of their disappearance before Imogen & Rhoda vanish into oblivion for good.  Product Information: •†ISBN:† 9780749018566 •†Author: Edward Marston •†Publisher:  Allison & Busby •†Format:† Paperback •†Pages:† 350 •†Dimensions:† 13.3 x 1.9 x 19.7 cm