Murder in Transit

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1866. On a train bound for Portsmouth, an elegant woman shares a first-class compartment with a gentleman in a celebratory mood. Giles Blanchard reveals his lecherous side as the journey gets underway, but he will never reach his home on the Isle of Wight alive. This chance encounter is to…

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Judith Cutler

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I'm sure you all know that famous line from "Jane Eyre": reader I married him. Well, I happen to be married too, Not a man who kept his mad wife in the attic. I'm married to another novelist, Edward Marston, the crime writer. He describes himself as the Dickens to my George Eliot - now, what a household those two would have made! I love his Railway Detective series, which takes his protagonists all over England.

Here they are in Hampshire. Guess who is in residence in Osborne House, just across the Solent on the Isle of White? In a…

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