A review by tessisreading2
The Railway Detective by Edward Marston

1.0

This book. Oh, wow, this book. The author needed someone to explain the concept of "show, don't tell," and the editor needed to go through with a red pen and change all of the narrative tags to "said." Once you've seen it, you can't un-see it, and I found myself reading pages of dialogue and flinching. The book might be interesting if you're really obsessed with nineteenth-century rail engines, but it's just hard to wade through otherwise.