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Edwardian detective Jim Stringer goes undercover into the Yorkshire underworld of drifters, pickpockets and train-robbers.
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Edwardian detective Jim Stringer goes undercover into the Yorkshire underworld of drifters, pickpockets and train-robbers.
Winter, 1906. After his adventures as an amateur sleuth, Jim Stringer is now an official railway detective, working from York Station for the mighty North Eastern Railway Company. But he's not a happy man.
As the rain falls incessantly on the city's ancient, neglected streets, the local paper carries a story highly unusual by York standards: two brothers have been shot to death.
Meanwhile, on the station platforms, Jim Stringer meets the Lost Luggage Porter, humblest among the employees of the North Eastern Railway company. He tells Jim a tale which leads him to the roughest part of town, a place where the police constables always walk in twos. Jim is off on the trail of pickpockets, 'station loungers' and other small fry of the York underworld.
But then in a tiny, one-room pub with a badly smoking fire he enters the orbit of a dangerous, disturbed villain who is playing for much higher stakes.
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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The third in Andrew Martin's Edwardian era 'Jim Stringer' novels is the finest so far. Like the earlier books, The Necropolis Railway and The Blackpool Highflyer, this is less an out-and-out thriller than a study of a period and place: the evocation of the time and the landscapes that the naive hero passes through (the grim back streets of York, the countryside beyond the city, the boat train to Paris) is extraordinarliy vivid and intense. Jim Stringer is an almost Palin-esque Northern train obsessive, albeit one who appears to be growing up a bit in this book, even if his wife remains the sharper of the two: this relationship allows for some delicious social comedy, especially in the episode when Jim's father visits the couple and is exposed to his daughter-in-law's progressive attitudes. Furthermore, Andrew Martin has a truly Dickensian eye for the 'killer detail' - the apparently casual, off-centre observation that illuminates a lost world in a tiny phrase. These books are much more than genre fiction and deserve a far wider public.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Andrew has a knack of getting his hero into tight spots and coincidence gets him out of them. Just like John Buchan does in Thirty-Nine Steps. A very enjoyable novel.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This had everything going for it.Steam Railways,the Edwardian period and a Railway detective.It was a bit of a let down.The description of the period and of York were good, but I found the characters annoying and began to dislike Stringer.Instead of an exciting crime adventure it became a rather disappointing trudge along the tracks. In fairness to the author maybe I should have started with the first book or the latest book in the series.This one however left me cold.
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good series
Mother enjoying the series of books...looking forward to the rest of series..I'm ordering every month from Spain and sending to UK..
Published 11 days ago by Ms. Judith M. Gebhard
Better and better
This set of books get better as you read each one.
As a mainly "just before I go to sleep" reader this series is ideal. Read more
As a mainly "just before I go to sleep" reader this series is ideal. Read more
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Jim Stringer ... Railway Detective
Coming as I do, from what used to be one of the oldest and largest railway communities, Swindon, this book was of great interest to me, when I saw it for sale in a local charity... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Yvonne
Lost Luggage Porter
I like Andrew Martin's detective. I am not a great fan of the genre, but this one appeals to me. He is not really a maverick or outsider in the usual style, apart from an... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Girty
Pedantic
As a lover of detective fiction and always having an interest in railways, I looked forward to reading this series. What a disappointment! Read more
Published 6 months ago by G. Lever
excellent
I have purchased the entire collection, to date, of Jim Stringer, novels. I have read them in order and this one is excellent. They seem to get better as yopu get into the series. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Ray Howard
Paper Money
I have enjoyed all three Jim Stringer novels that I have read thus far. But one nagging doubt spoils my enjoyment. Read more
Published 11 months ago by J D Barnett
"I had lost my job on the footplate, joined a criminal band, and was...
James Harrison Stringer, now working as a detective for the North Eastern Company Railroad in York, England, has been fired from the job he's loved--being "on the footplate" of a... Read more
Published on 24 Mar 2008 by Mary Whipple
Excess baggage
Quite enjoyed The Blackpool Highflyer, less so the Necropolis Railway, but I'm really struggling to finish The Lost Luggage Porter. Read more
Published on 6 Jun 2006 by Dr Dave
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