A review by iainkelly_writing
The Railway Detective by Edward Marston

adventurous fast-paced

2.25

Undemanding historical crime fiction. Unfortunately its very perfunctory in style, lacking style or atmosphere and characters that are very one note and generic. The criminals are revealed midway through, there's never any jeopardy or doubt that the police will get their man. Indeed, the ease with which the detective leaps from one - always amazingly accurate - conclusion to the next becomes rather laughable. Disappointing. Plenty of better examples of the genre out there.