Richard Mayne – Senior Commissioner at Scotland Yard. The only real person playing an active part in the novel. All across the USA, people are showing up dead. The deaths don't appear to be connected in any way until one particular death occurs and gets the Secretary of Defense's attention. He arranges for a task force to investigate. Herbert Shipperley – Post Office supervisor responsible for mail coach scheduling. His information, when interviewed by Leeming, posits William Ings as a prime suspect. The detectives meet with great hostility, not least from the local vicar who refuses to have the body of a suicide victim buried in consecrated ground. When the corpse of the missing wife is found, the investigation takes a different turn altogether and the Railway Detective has to wade through a mass of conflicting evidence.

The Railway Detective’s Christmas Case– December 1864. An excursion train enters a tunnel in the Malvern Hills and is met with an obstruction on the railway ahead as a chilly winter wind sweeps the Worcestershire countryside. The train is slowed down by the driver to lessen the impact, but the passengers are worried. Cyril Hubbleday, the guy in charge of the tour to the lovely spa resort of Great Malvern, is the first person to go. A sniper shoots Hubbleday to death while he is speaking to the guard, driver, and fireman at the front of the locomotive. The fact that Christmas is getting ever closer complicates the situation and they are forced into a race against time.

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Harvey Marmion and Sergeant Keedy, Home Front detectives, are involved in a siege. When Keedy bravely leads a charge into the house, he is shot. He is moved to a military hospital for emergency surgery. Arthur Jukes – Senior gang member who is "a big, bulky man in his thirties with ginger whiskers". Jukes had been a non-commissioned officer (NCO) under Gilzean and Sholto in India. The Railway Detective was nominated for the Theakston's Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year Award 2006.

Caleb Andrews – Engine driver who is proud to work for the L&NWR. This pride often surfaces in criticisms of other railway companies and especially of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and the Great Western Railway (GWR). He is a "short, wiry man in his fifties with a suppressed energy". He was widowed five years earlier and is largely reliant upon his daughter Madeleine, who keeps house for him in Camden and "looks after him with a mixture of kindness, cajolery and uncompromising firmness". The latter is necessary because Caleb is opinionated and can be stubborn even when proved wrong. Caleb is nevertheless determined to see Madeleine happily married. London 1851. With the opening of the Great Exhibition at hand, interest is mounting in the engineering triumphs of the railways, but not everyone feels like celebrating. Edward Marston was born and brought up in Wales. He read Modern History at Oxford then lectured in the subject for three years before becoming a full-time freelance writer. His first historical mystery, The Queen's Head, was published in 1988, launching the Nicholas Bracewell series. This is how history mysteries should be: fine storytelling, marvellous characters reminiscent of the great authors of the mid-Victorian period, and a sneaky mystery, too." Vernon Seymour – Gang member who lives in the notorious Seven Dials district. Formerly a private in the 10th North Lincoln.Fear on the Phantom Special– Halloween, 1861. In the middle of the night, a special train with two carriages travels through the Lake District on its way to a location renowned for its history of paranormal occurrences. Alcohol has been consumed by the majority of individuals on board, which has boosted their energy levels. The bulb abruptly goes out in the second carriage’s final compartment, leaving it in complete darkness. The passengers swarm onto the station platform as the train reaches its destination. A call for aid signals that someone is missing. There are about sixty of them in total, laughing and shoving one another. Edward Marston is the pseudonym used by the famous British author Keith Miles for writing mystery and historical fiction novels. Edward also writes under his original name sometimes. Other than these names, he has also written novels featuring ship’s detectives under other pseudonyms Conrad Allen and Martin Inigo. Edward is particularly known for writing the mystery novels set in the time of Elizabeth theater. Among the all the novel series’ written by him, the most famous ones include The Railway Detective series, the Bracewell series, the Domesday series, the Christopher Redmayne series and the Home Front Detective series. The Domesday series is the one for which author Edward Marston is well known. Apart from the mysteries, he also likes to write novels based on the Biography and Children’s genres. Edward was born in the year 1940 in Wales, United Kingdom and was also brought up there. He completed his studies from the Oxford University in Modern History and began working as a lecturer in the same college. He taught Modern History to the students of the Oxford College for a period of three years before going on to become a full time writer, mostly as a freelancer. Polly Roach – Aging prostitute in the Devil's Acre, for whom Ings has deserted Maud. Roach's possessiveness drives him away and he takes up with Kate Piercy instead. Roach, seeking revenge after being cast aside, finds their bodies.