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Jim Stringer eBook Series

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  • The Necropolis Railway

    A Historical Novel

    by Andrew Martin ...
    Series Book 1 - Jim Stringer
    'A brilliant murder mystery set in Edwardian London about a railway line that runs only to a massive cemetery.' Daily Mirror'An ingenious and atmospheric thriller.' ExpressWhen railwayman Jim Stringer moves to the garish and tawdry London of 1903, he finds his duties are confined to a mysterious graveyard line. The men he works alongside have formed an instant loathing for him - and his ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Blackpool Highflyer

    by Andrew Martin ...
    Series Book 2 - Jim Stringer
    'Jim Stringer, Steam Detective, rides the footplate again in this hot-as-coals whodunnit. Sabotage, sleuthing, suspicion and steam combine with Edwardian England and railways to create a detective novel in the grand tradition of detective novels.' Express'This may well be the best fiction about the railways since Dickens.' Independent on SundayA superbly atmospheric thriller of sabotage, suspicion ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Last Train to Scarborough

    by Andrew Martin ...
    Series Book 6 - Jim Stringer
    'A thoroughly engaging and entertaining read. All aboard.' Sunday Express'Terrific.' Daily TelegraphIt's March 1914, and Jim Stringer is uneasy about his next assignment.It's not so much the prospect of a Scarborough lodging house in the gloomy off-season that bothers him, or even the fact that the last railwayman to stay in the house has disappeared without trace. It's more that his governor, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Death on a Branch Line

    by Andrew Martin ...
    Series Book 5 - Jim Stringer
    'The period detail is wonderful . . . The story builds up a good head of steam early on and rattles along nicely to a satisfying conclusion.' GuardianIt's the summer of 1911, and as Britain is gripped by paranoia about German spies and secret preparations for war, railway detective Jim Stringer decides to set out for a much-needed holiday.But before he can leave he finds himself escorting a young ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Murder at Deviation Junction

    by Andrew Martin ...
    Series Book 4 - Jim Stringer
    The latest in Andrew Martin"s much-loved "Jim Stringer, Steam Detective" series. "Andrew Martin has recreated an extraordinarily convincing world . . . Terrific." Daily TelegraphDecember, 1909. A train hits a snowdrift in the frozen Cleveland Hills. In the process of clearing the line a body is discovered, and so begins a dangerous case for struggling railway detective Jim Stringer, a case which ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Lost Luggage Porter

    by Andrew Martin ...
    Series Book 3 - Jim Stringer
    'A cracking good thriller.' Independent on Sunday'Unerringly sharp and pioneeringly original, it locks the reader in from start to finish.' Andrew Barrow, SpectatorWinter, 1906. It's Jim Stringer's first day as an official railway detective, but he's not a happy man.As the rain falls incessantly on the city's ancient streets, the local paper carries a story highly unusual by York standards: two ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Baghdad Railway Club

    by Andrew Martin ...
    Series Book 8 - Jim Stringer
    'Martin handles this theme with the skill of such illustrious predecessors as Graham Greene - and there is no higher praise than that.' Daily ExpressBaghdad, 1917. Captain Jim Stringer, invalided from the Western Front, has been dispatched to investigate what looks like a nasty case of treason. He arrives to find a city on the point of insurrection, his cover apparently blown - and his only ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Night Train to Jamalpur

    by Andrew Martin ...
    Series Book 9 - Jim Stringer
    North East India, 1923. On the broiling Night Mail from Calcutta to Jamalpur, a man is shot dead in a first class compartment. Detective Inspector Jim Stringer was sleeping in the next compartment along. Was he the intended target? Jim should have known that his secondment to the East Indian Railway, with a roving brief to inspect security arrangements, would not be the working holiday he had ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Somme Stations

    by Andrew Martin ...
    Series Book 7 - Jim Stringer
    WINNER OF THE ELLIS PETERS AWARD'Superb.' Lancashire Evening Post'Richly satisfying.' Sunday TelegraphOn the first day of the Somme enlisted railwayman Jim Stringer lies trapped in a shell hole, smoking cigarette after cigarette under the bullets and the blazing sun. He calculates his chances of survival - even before they departed for France, a member of Jim's unit had been found dead.Durin... ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    by Edward Marston ...
    Series Book 4 - Home Front Detective
    In June 1916, a young woman named Charlotte Reid is found murdered in a cinema. Harvery Marmion and Joe Keedy are assigned the task of finding the killer who so elusively fled in the dark. Before long, two more victims, of striking similarity but differing backgrounds, are found dead around the city. Meanwhile, miles from home, Marmion's son Paul prepares for life on the front line as he marches ... Read more

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  • A Surfeit of Guns

    by Patricia Finney, P F Chishom ...
    Series Book 3 - Sir Robert Carey series
    1592: Sir Robert Carey is finding life in the North more complicated and dangerous than he expectedNow somebody has stolen the load of firearms the Queen sent to Carlisle.Who did it? Where are the guns now?Sir Robert sets out for Scotland along with Sergeant Henry Dodd and not enough men, hoping to find the guns and also perhaps meet the young Scottish King in Dumfries.He doesn't know that his ... Read more

    $8.18 USD

  • Five Dead Canaries

    The compelling WWI murder mystery series

    by Edward Marston ...
    Series Book 3 - Home Front Detective
    As thousands of Brits are fighting on the Front Line, a new breed of women emerges to hold the Home Front together. Fiercely independent and fiery-spirited, the munitionettes, or 'canaries', are easily recognisable with their chemically-stained yellow faces. Among the raucous group of women is Florrie Duncan, who plans to celebrate her birthday in style at the Golden Goose pub. But the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD