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Assigned to drive holidaymakers to the seaside resort of Blackpool in the hot summer of 1905, Jim Stringer is happy to have left behind the grime and danger of life in London. But his dreams of beer and pretty women are soon shattered when his high-speed train meets a huge millstone on the line, leading to a passenger's death ...
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"A steamy whodunnit... This may well be the best fiction about the railways since Dickens."
The Independent on Sunday
"An irresistible excursion into a bygone world."
The Sunday Times
"[Andrew Martin] does a stunning job of bringing to life the era when steam locomotives chugged from London through the British countryside…."
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- SeriesJim Stringer Mystery #2