Edition:
Paperback
ISBN:
9780571219025
Published:
01.09.2005
No of pages:
352
The Blackpool Highflyer
Andrew Martin
A superbly atmospheric thriller of sabotage, suspicion and steam, The Blackpool Highflyer brings a new twist to tales of Edwardian England and amateur sleuthing. 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 ...
Tags
Categorised as:
Fiction
Sub-categories:
Crime & Thrillers
Genres & Themes:
Detectives;
Murder Mystery;
Railways
Characters:
Railway Detective;
Jim Stringer
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