As a train speeds over the Sankey Viaduct, the dead body of a man is hurled into
 the canal below. Inspector Robert Colbeck and Sergeant Victor Leeming take charge
 of their most complex and difficult case yet. Hampered by the fact that the corpse
 has nothing on him to indicate his identity, they are baffled until a young woman 
comes forward to explain that the murder victim, Gaston Chabal, is an engineer, 
working on a major rail link in France.
As the case takes on an international dimension, problems accumulate. The detectives
 wonder if the murder is connected to a series of vicious attacks on the rail link 
that is being built by British navvies under the direction of a British construction 
engineer. Colbeck and Leeming have to survive personal danger, resistance from the 
French government, broadsides from their Superintendent, and many other setbacks before
 they solve the crime.
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