1863. Young student, Bernard Pomeroy, flies into a panic when he
receives a letter in the early hours of the morning. Leaving a note for
a friend with a porter at Corpus Christi College, he rushes for the next
train leaving Cambridge. However, shortly after disembarking at his
destination, the undergraduate lies dead on the platform.
Summoned by the master of the college, Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant
Leeming begin to investigate Pomeroy's untimely demise. But it seems
that Pomeroy had ruffled many feathers during his short tenure at the
University. With academic disputes, sporting rivalry and a clandestine
romance in play, the Railway Detective will have to disentangle the many
threads of Pomeroy's life in order to answer the truth of his death.