The Silver Locomotive Mystery: The Railway Detective's Puzzling New Case (SIGNED COPY)
by: Marston, Edward

Hardcover. London, Allison & Busby Limited, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MARSTON on the title page. It's 1855. As the Cardiff-bound trai puffs out of Paddington Station, young Hugh Kellow wraps a protective arm around his large valise. He has been entrusted with a priceless silver coffee pot, designed in the shape of a locomotive, by his elderly silversmith employer. But two of Hugh's fellow passengers are taking an enormous interest in the young man and his precious cargo. When a dead body is discovered in a room at the Cardiff Railway Hotel, beside an empty valise, the great railway detective Detective Robert Colbeck and his trusty sergeant Victor Leeming are called in to investigate; and face awhole host of unexpected problems. Clean copy.