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  • Timetable of Death

  • The Railway Detective, Book 12
  • By: Edward Marston
  • Narrated by: Nick McArdle
  • Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (40 ratings)

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Timetable of Death

By: Edward Marston
Narrated by: Nick McArdle
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Summary

1859. St Mary's Church, Spondon. A little girl playing hide-and-seek jumps into a freshly-dug grave to find a dead man already occupying it. It is the body of Cedric Norton, a senior director of the Midland Railway. Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming travel to Derbyshire to investigate.

©2015 Edward Marston (P)2016 Magna Story Sound

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"Edward Marston is a master of his craft." (Daily Mail)

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Usual brilliance

Need more, lovely comfortable book to be revisited time and again…even with the family

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a good listen.

Well worth a listen. it has a good, well written story line and I clearly read.

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Brilliant

Fantastic d book read well excellent story again ignore there are more books to come longer please

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Timetable of death

What a delightful book. It was so nice not to have details of the investigators going off the rails or hitting the buffers. No mobile phones. No computers. Just good old fashioned sleuthing. Good result and good ending. Yup, enjoyed this one very much.

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