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Death on a Branch Line (Jim Stringer #5)
The sweltering summer of 1911. Trouble is brewing with Germany. Half the country is on strike; the other half seems to be in flames. And in his most perplexing case to date, railway detective Jim Stringer has forty-eight hours to solve a murder not yet committed.
One Friday evening a special train rolls into York station. It carries a young aristocrat recently found guilty...more
One Friday evening a special train rolls into York station. It carries a young aristocrat recently found guilty...more
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(first published June 5th 2008)
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Railway detective Jim Stringer is on the case again, this one most perplexing, not only for himself but for the reader also!
He encounters a condemned man on York railway station and learns of another plot in the man's home village of Adenwold. He sets of with his wife (who he most annoyingly refers to as 'the wife') to try to sort matters out.
However, they do not seem as simple as first portrayed and a host of suspects are encountered and underlying it all there appears to be a plot that would h...more
He encounters a condemned man on York railway station and learns of another plot in the man's home village of Adenwold. He sets of with his wife (who he most annoyingly refers to as 'the wife') to try to sort matters out.
However, they do not seem as simple as first portrayed and a host of suspects are encountered and underlying it all there appears to be a plot that would h...more
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Set in 1911 and evocative of the great steam age on the railways, this is a gentle murder mystery and an easy holiday read. Detective Jim Stringer spends a weekend in rural Yorkshire unravelling a murder plot and attempting to save a man from being hanged on Monday morning. There are some good twists and turns, but overall the plot is sometimes a little simple and under-developed. I recommend it for its ease of reading and the high quality of writing.
I'd rate this higher, but for a few annoying anachronisms and one howler.
The book concerned, among other things, the events following the murder of a baronet whose elder son is referred to throughout the book as Mr.
Also, expressions such as "ten after" the hour were not current before 1914, any more than were firearms referred to as shooters.
The book concerned, among other things, the events following the murder of a baronet whose elder son is referred to throughout the book as Mr.
Also, expressions such as "ten after" the hour were not current before 1914, any more than were firearms referred to as shooters.
This is a stunning book - I can't quite believe how much I liked it.
A complicated case for Stringer this time but I was pleased to see his wife Lydia getting more of role in this novel.
Didn't finish. Too little character development and too little action to keep me interested.
A meandering journey through the events Stringer uncovers.
One of the best in the Railway Detective series
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