Railway Mystery Series

About the Railway Mystery Series

The Railway Mystery Series is about bringing real railroad history--real timetables, real trains, and real technology that capture the spirit of a bygone age--into contact with compelling detective fiction. Drawing from the rich legacies of authors such as Dame Agatha Christie and Graham Greene, the Series frames intriguing human stories against a backdrop of passenger train travel's heyday. Set largely in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s and authored by experienced historians with a flair for fiction, these books will allow readers to escape into the past and continue a long tradition of using the rails as a vehicle for thrilling mysteries that you solve right along with the detectives!

Meet Ellicott Robinson

Most entries in the series star Ellicott Robinson, a brilliant, quirky railroad policeman whose career spans the best decades of passenger rail travel. Beginning with his first mystery in 1904 (The 3:45 to Moundsville) and continuing through the beginning of the Cold War (Murder in the Observation Car), Inspector Robinson serves the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad by tackling cases of murder, theft, smuggling, and more on the rails. Often traveling on (or loaned out to) competitor railroads, readers will follow him all over the United States--and the world--as he builds his reputation as the world's most formidable railroad detective.

List of Books in the Railway Mystery Series (year set/year released)

1. Murder in the Observation Car (1948/2019)
2. The 3:45 to Moundsville (1904/2019)
3. Jewel Theft on the Hot Springs Train (working title)