This is the Railway Detective's puzzling new case. An exquisitely designed silver 
coffee-pot in the shape of a locomotive is on its way to Cardiff in the care of the young,
 talented silversmith, Hugh Kellow. It has been commissioned by wealthy ironmaster
 Clifford Tomkins for his acquisitive wife, who wants it to be the envy of all her friends
 - and enemies. But the coffee-pot is stolen. When a gruesome murder is committed at the
 Railway Hotel, Winifred Tomkins is distraught. Caring little for the dead silversmith, 
all she can think about is her missing treasure. Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming
 of the Detective Department are summoned to Wales from London by telegraph and they are
 soon confronted by some additional crimes. The situation is complicated by the arrival 
of a famous theatre company and by revelations of illicit liaisons among members of the 
local high society. There is no shortage of suspects and Colbeck has to sift through layers
 of deceit to find the killer - before it is too late.
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