Beau Blackstone is a 1973 historical thriller novel by the British writer Derek Lambert, published under the pen name Richard Falkirk. It is the third in a series of six novels featuring Edmund Blackstone, a member of the Bow Street Runners in the pre-Victorian era.[1] Blackstone goes undercover amongst a gang of navvies working on a new railway, and is called on for plans to thwart the first Great Train Robbery.

Beau Blackstone
First edition
AuthorDerek Lambert
LanguageEnglish
SeriesEdmund Blackstone
GenreHistorical thriller
PublisherStein and Day
Publication date
1973
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Preceded byBlackstone's Fancy 
Followed byBlackstone and the Scourge of Europe 

References

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  1. ^ Nash & Kilda p.165

Bibliography

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  • David Nash & Anne-Marie Kilday. Law, Crime and Deviance Since 1700: Micro-Studies in the History of Crime. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016.