Title: Death on a branch line
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Railroad police, Jim Stringer (Fictitious character), History, Murder, Prevention
Places: Yorkshire (England), Great Britain, England, Yorkshire
Time periods: George V, 1910-1936