{"id":20724,"date":"2020-10-23T09:26:36","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T14:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=20724"},"modified":"2020-10-22T18:45:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T23:45:53","slug":"edward-marstons-the-railway-detective-mystery-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/edward-marstons-the-railway-detective-mystery-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Marston’s the Railway Detective Mystery Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>\"\"One of my favorite things to do is sit down with a book by one of my favorite authors. Well, in this case I’m sitting down with a favorite author going by a different name. I’ve written before about Conrad Allen’s Dillman Series<\/strong>, starring ship-based detective George Porter Dillman in the early 1900s. Well, Conrad Allen and Edward Marston<\/a> <\/strong>happen to be the same person (both being pseudonyms for Keith Miles), so I decided to read the first in Marston’s Railway Detective Series<\/strong>, named, fittingly enough, The Railway Detective<\/em><\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Though I’ve read most of Marston’s books under the name Conrad Allen, The Railway Detective<\/em><\/strong> is the first book I’ve read under the Marston name. However, with my experience of Allen’s Dillman<\/strong> series, I felt confident that I was in for an interesting mystery set in an unusual physical setting during an interesting time period – in this case, a railway-themed mystery in Victorian-era England.<\/p>\n

Well, suffice to say I wasn’t disappointed! As always, Marston manages to portray an interesting period of time, in this case the Victorian era, as well as the transportation technology that most well-defined it >>> here, steam-driven locomotives. I’ve got the series tagged as reportedly\u00a0not Cozy<\/em> on the appropriate pages of the list – for now I’m going to leave it since Detective Colbeck is an actual police detective, while most Cozy protagonists are amateurs, but I would definitely say that from what I have read so far, the Railway Detective Mystery Series<\/strong> seems well-suited for most Cozy Mystery fans, especially those interested in the Victorian era or train travel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my favorite things to do is sit down with a book by one of my favorite authors. Well, in this case I’m sitting down with a favorite author going by a different name. I’ve written before about Conrad Allen’s Dillman Series, starring ship-based detective George Porter Dillman in the early 1900s. Well, Conrad […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-authors","7":"category-books","8":"entry","9":"override"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pI0sr-5og","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20724"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38872,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20724\/revisions\/38872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}