The Mountsorrel Mystery : And Other Stories

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An eagerly-awaited selection of brand-new stories featuring Chief Inspector Vignoles and his much-loved colleagues from the British Railways Detective Department as they tackle a varied caseload of odd, baffling and blood-curdling crimes… In the title piece, a railway worker is found dead beside the Mountsorrel Railway. It looks like suicide, but could it be murder? ‘One Way Ticket’ shows a different side to the usually irascible Superintendent Badger as he recounts a perplexing murder mystery from his early years in the force. In ‘Rogue Parcels’ Anna Carelli (the future Mrs Vignoles) shows her own aptitude for crime-solving in a sparkling World War II yarn involving stolen packages at Leicester Central. Set in and around the former Great Central Railway, these interwoven stories move between 1939 and 1953. Whether speeding towards Dover on ‘The Golden Arrow’, or hurtling through the snowy night aboard the ‘Master Cutler’, this wonderful collection will be a treat for all readers who enjoy a good crime story set against the atmosphere and romance of Britain’s steam railways.