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Andrew Martin

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July 06, 1962 in The United Kingdom

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http://www.jimstringernovels.com/index.htm

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Andrew Martin (born 6 July 1962) is an English novelist and journalist.

Martin was brought up in Yorkshire, studied at the University of Oxford and qualified as a barrister. He has since worked as a freelance journalist for a number of publications while writing novels, starting with Bilton, a comic novel about journalists, and The Bobby Dazzlers, a comic novel set in the North of England, for which he was named Spectator Young Writer of the Year. His series of detective novels about Jim Stringer, a railwayman reassigned to the North Eastern Railway Police in Edwardian England, includes The Necropolis Railway, The Bl...more

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Average rating: 3.17 · 439 ratings · 137 reviews · 34 distinct works

	The Necropolis Railway (Jim Stringer, #1) 2.92 avg rating — 154 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Lost Luggage Porter (Jim Stringer, #3) 3.20 avg rating — 54 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Blackpool Highflyer (Jim Stringer, #2) 3.35 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2006 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Somme Stations. by Andrew Martin 3.57 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	My rating:
	How To Get Things Really Flat 3.08 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Death on a Branch Line (Jim Stringer, #5) 3.36 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Murder at Deviation Junction (Jim Stringer, #4) 3.42 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Last Train To Scarborough (Jim Stringer, Railway Detective #6) 3.29 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Bilton 2.85 avg rating — 13 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Ghoul Britannia: Notes On A Haunted Isle 3.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:

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Series by Andrew Martin

Jim Stringer (7 books)
by Andrew Martin

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“In order to follow your heart, one must do the wrong thing”
― Andrew Martin

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“A man washing up secretly imagines himself to be the head surgeon in an operating theater. He is entitled to bark out peremptory orders: 'Right! I'm ready for the pudding things now!”
― Andrew Martin, How To Get Things Really Flat

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