There was no way to identify the body. After being stabbed in the heart, he was thrown from a train going over a viaduct. His face was disfigured, his papers were gone, and the only clue was the cut of his coat. His clothes were definitely not British and the railway detective Inspector Robert Colbeck and Sergeant Victor Leeming must travel to France in hopes of finding the murdered man’s identity. It’s 1852 and the relations between the two countries had not been good. The memory of Napoleon is still fresh and the potential unrest in France creates suspicion among many in England. Colbeck has his hands full maneuvering between cultures and trying to find the killer before his reputation is destroyed or worse he ends up dead. The Railway Viaduct by Edward Marston is the third installment in The Robert Colbeck series. Marston is the author of other historical series including the very popular Nicholas Bracewell series set in Elizabethan England.