Signal for Vengeance
Author: Edward Marston
Librarian’s note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here.,,1860, Dorset. A married woman finds some escape from her miserable home life in an affair with another man. But the age-old tale has a new spin put upon it when, en route to a tryst, the wife trips over her dead lover on the railway tracks.,,Inspector Colbeck is drafted in from London t….Read More
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