Keith Miles (born 1940) is an English author, who writes under his own name and also historical fiction and mystery novels under the pseudonym Edward Marston. He is known for five distinct series of his mysteries set in five distinct periods.
The (chronologically) earliest series is the Domesday Series, a series of novels based on events in the Domesday Book. The series' two protagonists are the Norman soldier Ralph Delchard and the former novitiate turned lawyer Gervase Bret, who is half Norman and half Saxon.
The next is a series of novels set in the world of Elizabethan theatre, about 1600, whose protagonist is Nicholas Bracewell, the bookholder of a leading Elizabethan theater company (in an alternate non-Shakespearean universe).
As listed below, from the 1660s, the Restoration series, and from early 18th century, the Rawson Series.
His latest series of novels are based in the Victorian period, at about 1850, and revolve around the fictional railway detective Inspector Robert Colbeck.