Follow the adventures of Jim Stringer, a railway worker and amateur sleuth navigating the mysteries of early 1900s England. This series immerses you in an era of steam engines and intriguing puzzles, where each case tests his sharp wit and courage. Dive into compelling narratives filled with twists and turns, uncovering hidden truths against the backdrop of a rapidly industrializing world.
Andrew Martin has written an historical thriller set around the true story of the Brookwood Necropolis Railway, which carried the dead from Waterloo Station. Previous novels by the author include 'Bilton' and 'The Bobby Dazzlers'.
'Genuinely gripping ... A brilliant evocation of Edwardian working-class life - the sort of thing DH Lawrence might have written had he been less verbose or been blessed with a sense of humour.' Peter Parker, Evening StandardThe second Jim Stringer adventure, The Blackpool Highflyer is a suberbly atmospheric thriller of sabotage, suspicion and steam. 'Unique and important ... There is no one else who is writing like Andrew Martin today.' Ian Marchant, Guardian'Evokes Edwardian Yorkshire and Lancashire, their great industrial prosperity and singular ways of living, quite brilliantly in a historical whodunnit which for its fresh and stealthy approach to past times deserves the adjective Bainbridgean.' Ian Jack, Guardian (Books of the Year)'A steamy whodunnit ... This may well be the best fiction about the railways since Dickens.' Michael Williams, Independent on Sunday
Edwardian detective Jim Stringer goes undercover into the Yorkshire underworld of drifters, pickpockets and train-robbers.
Jim's faltering career in the railway police hangs on whether he can solve the murder - but before long the pursuer becomes the pursued, and Jim finds himself fighting not just for his job, but for his very life as well.