{{short description|1973 novel}} {{infobox book| | name =Beau Blackstone | title_orig = | translator = | image =File:Beau Blackstone.jpg | caption = First edition | author = Derek Lambert | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United Kingdom | language = English | series = Edmund Blackstone | genre = Historical thriller | publisher =Stein and Day | release_date = 1973 | english_release_date = | media_type = Print | pages = | isbn = | preceded_by = Blackstone's Fancy | followed_by = Blackstone and the Scourge of Europe }} '''''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.<ref>Nash & Kilda p.165</ref> 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.
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==Bibliography== * David Nash & Anne-Marie Kilday. ''Law, Crime and Deviance Since 1700: Micro-Studies in the History of Crime''. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016.
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Category:1973 British novels Category:1973 English-language novels Category:Novels by Derek Lambert Category:British historical novels Category:British thriller novels Category:Novels set in London Category:Novels set in the 1820s Category:Novels about rail transport Category:Stein and Day books
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