Death on a branch line
By: Andrew Martin
Edition: [Large print edition].
Series: Jim Stringer steam detective
Publisher: ISIS Large Print
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9780753191965; 9780753191972
Subjects: Fiction; Railroad police; Jim Stringer (Fictitious character); History
Description: "It's the sweltering summer of 1911, and one Friday evening a young aristocrat arrives into the custody of detective Jim Stringer, a man recently found guilty of murdering his father in the sleepy village of Adenwold. He warns Jim of another murder likely to happen in the same village - that of his brother, a reclusive intellectual. When Jim and his wife Lydia arrive at Adenwold they encounter a host of likely suspects and the intended victim, and suddenly Jim has one weekend in which to stop a murder and unravel a conspiracy of international dimensions ..."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Standard print edition originally published: London : Faber and Faber Ltd., 2008.