Bright and ambitious, young Jim Stringer moves from the English countryside to London deter- mined to become a railway man. It is 1903, the dawn of the Edwardian age, when steam runs the nation and the railways drive progress. Jim can't believe his luck to have gotten his foot in the door at South East Railway, run out of Waterloo Station. He finds, however, that his duties involve a graveyard shift, literally--a railway line that takes coffins from London morgues to the gigantic new cemeteries being dug in the city's outskirts. He also learns that his predecessor had disappeared and that his coworkers seem to have formed an instant loathing for him. Forced to live by his wits and to arrive at his own deductions--assisted by his landlady, for whom he falls-- he tries to figure out what is going on before he is issued a one-way ticket on the Necropolis Railway.

Author: Andrew Martin
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Published: 01/15/2007
Series: Jim Stringer Mysteries
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 7.94h x 5.34w x 0.62d
ISBN: 9780156030687


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2006 pg. 992
Booklist 10/15/2006 pg. 32
Publishers Weekly 11/13/2006 pg. 38
Library Journal 12/01/2006 pg. 99

About the Author
Martin, Andrew: - ANDREW MARTIN was a Spectator (London) Young Writer of the Year and has written for the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, and Granta . He has a weekly column in the New Statesman . He lives in London.