Dick Aston, The Railway Detective

A detective who hunts monsters. A crime so savage it shook the rails of the nation. One man determined to see justice done.

Dick Aston arrives at Jellytown three days after the wreck with no witnesses worth trusting, no clear suspects, and a trail already gone cold. Seventeen dead. Fifty wounded. A fortune in plunder vanished into the Illinois dark.

But Aston doesn't rattle easily.

Methodical where others panic, sharp where others miss, he sees what the local posses overlooked—a pattern buried inside a stack of barely-literate warning letters, a frightened girl who recognises the handwriting, and a brooding young man with something to hide. Every conversation Aston has brings him closer to the heart of the conspiracy. Every conversation also brings the conspirators closer to him.

As he works his way through the renter settlements of the English syndicate land, the wreckers realise they have left a witness alive. They intend to correct the mistake.

Now Aston pushes deeper into a web of desperate men who have already proved they will kill without hesitation—men who control the darkness between two lonely towns, and who know the territory far better than he does.

The rails run through lawless country. The money is hidden. The killers are watching.

Can Dick Aston bring the train-wreckers to justice before they finish what they started?