- Hardcover: 272 pages
- Publisher: Faber and Faber; First Edition edition (5 Jun 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0571229670
- ISBN-13: 978-0571229673
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 390,665 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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38 of 39 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Death on a Branch Line, Andrew Martin:,
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This review is from: Death on a Branch Line (Jim Stringer Mystery) (Hardcover)
Andrew Martin's Death on a Branch Line is the 5th railway detective novel of a 6 book series. They are all excellent but this latest book underlines his great writing skill through its movement and stillness, and a handful of compelling quirky characters. Tension is achieved by a race against the clock; the sleepy Yorkshire village is curiously empty. I couldn't put the book down once I'd started, and I was frustrated to have rushed through to the last page so hastily. I didn't want it to end.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Competent rather than compelling,
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This review is from: Death on a Branch Line (Jim Stringer Mystery) (Hardcover)
My first encounter with Andrew Martin's Jim Stringer series, 'Death on a Branch Line' is a mystery which owes a great deal to the likes of John Buchan and 'The Riddle of the Sands', concerning as it does mysterious and murderous goings-on in an isolated Yorkshire village which draws railway detective Jim Stringer and his spirited wife Lydia into a race against time to save an innocent man's life. The shadow of war against Germany is never far away, and the sense of unease in the village is well described, as are the characters of Lydia and Jim's Chief, who come across particularly well.
If I have one reservation, it's that the language is occasionally a little too strong for the period setting, with a few expletives I'd normally expect to find in something more contemporary. Otherwise the evocation and atmosphere are good, the characterisation something of a curate's egg and the resolution satisfying if tinged with bleakness. But for a modern take on the classic adventure stories of the Edwardian period, it's certainly worth a read.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
a little contrived,
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This review is from: Death on a Branch Line (Jim Stringer Steam Detective 5) (Paperback)
This is my first of the `steam detective `books and it wont be my last but it was oddly unsatisfying. The plot seemed so contrived, a man on his way to his execution warns Jim Stringer of the imminent murder of his brother. There follows a string of events in a deserted town on a branch line with elements of the British Secret Service and information of National Importance. The ending is a little confusing and I hope it can be explained by reading some of the earlier books. The writing is good the characters are fleshed out. It will be worth trying another one but I would not start here.
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