Adrian Day and Martyn Bilton are two young journalists adrift in the "New Globe", Britain's biggest newspaper. After The Incident (involving a cup of coffee, the Prime Minister, and the exploitation of the working class) an explosion of hype threatens to blow Bilton onto a much larger stage.

Bilton

Literature & Fiction

Andrew, Martin

Contemporary

Faber and Faber Ltd.

In York, Winter, 1906 - two brothers have been shot to death. Meanwhile, Jim Stringer meets the Lost Luggage Porter, humblest among the employees of the North Eastern Railway company. He tells Jim a tale which leads him to the roughest part of town, a place where the police constables always walk in twos. Jim is off on the trail of pickpockets, 'station loungers' and other small fry of the York underworld. But then, in a tiny, one-room pub with a badly smoking fire, he enters the orbit of a dangerous, disturbed villain who is playing for much higher stakes...

The Lost Luggage Porter (Jim Stringer)

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Murder at Deviation Junction (Jim Stringer)

Genre Fiction

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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...

Death on a Branch Line

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

One night, in a private boarding house in Scarborough, a railwayman vanishes, leaving his belongings behind...It is the eve of the Great War, and Jim Stringer, railway detective, is uneasy about his next assignment. It's not so much the prospect Scarborough in the gloomy off-season that bothers him, or even the fact that the last railwayman to stay in the house has disappeared without trace. It's more that his governer, Chief Inspector Saul Weatherhill, seems to be deliberately holding back details of the case - and that he's been sent to Scarborough with a trigger-happy assistant. And when Jim encounters the seductive and beautiful Amanda Rickerby a whole new personal danger enters Jim's life...

The Last Train to Scarborough (Jim Stringer)

The Necropolis Railway - A Novel of Murder, Mystery and Steam (Jim Stringer)

British & Irish

FABER AND FABER (WATERSTONES)

On the first day of the Somme enlisted railwayman Jim Stringer lies trapped in a shell hole, smoking cigarette after cigarette under the bullets and the blazing sun. He calculates his chances of survival - even before they departed for France, a member of Jim's unit had been found dead. During the stand-off that follows, Jim and his comrades must operate by night the vitally important trains carrying munitions to the Front, through a ghostly landscape of shattered trees where high explosive and shrapnel shells rain down. Close co-operation and trust are vital. Yet proof piles up of an enemy within, and as a ferocious military policeman pursues his investigation into the original killing, the finger of accusation begins to point towards Jim himself...

Somme Stations

Baghdad 1917. Captain Jim Stringer, invalided from the Western Front, has been dispatched to investigate what looks like a nasty case of treason. He arrives to find a city on the point of insurrection, his cover apparently blown - and his only contact lying dead with flies in his eyes. As Baghdad swelters in a particularly torrid summer, the heat alone threatens the lives of the British soldiers who occupy the city. The recently ejected Turks are still a danger - and many of the local Arabs are none too friendly either. For Jim, who is not particularly good in warm weather, the situation grows pricklier by the day. Aside from his investigation, he is working on the railways around the city. His boss is the charming, enigmatic Lieutenant-Colonel Shepherd, who presides over the gracious dining society called The Baghdad Railway Club - and who may or may not be a Turkish agent. Jim's search for the truth brings him up against murderous violence in a heat-dazed, labyrinthine city where an enemy awaits around every corner.

The Baghdad Railway Club (Jim Stringer)

On the first day of the Somme enlisted railwayman Jim Stringer lies trapped in a shell hole, smoking cigarette after cigarette under the bullets and the blazing sun. He calculates his chances of survival - even before they departed for France, a member of Jim's unit had been found dead. During the stand-off that follows, Jim and his comrades must operate by night the vitally important trains carrying munitions to the Front, through a ghostly landscape of shattered trees where high explosive and shrapnel shells rain down. Close co-operation and trust are vital. Yet proof piles up of an enemy within, and as a ferocious military policeman pursues his investigation into the original killing, the finger of accusation begins to point towards Jim himself . . .

The Somme Stations (Jim Stringer)

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-02-07 Pages: 304 Language: English Publisher: Faber & Faber Crime Baghdad 1917 Captain Jim Stringer. invalided from the Western Front. has been dispatched to investigate what looks like a nasty case of treason He.. arrives to find a city on the point of insurrection. his cover apparently blown -. and his only contact lying dead with flies in his eyes As Baghdad swelters in a particularly torrid summer. the heat alone threatens the lives of the British soldiers who occupy the city ??The recently ejected Turks are still a danger -. and many of the local Arabs are none too friendly either.For Jim. who is not particularly good in warm weather. the situation grows pricklier by the day Aside from his investigation. he is. . working on the railways around the city His boss is the charming. enigmatic Lieutenant-Colonel Shepherd. who presides over the gracio...

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Bilton

The Lost Luggage Porter (Jim Stringer)

Murder at Deviation Junction (Jim Stringer)

Death on a Branch Line

The Last Train to Scarborough (Jim Stringer)

The Necropolis Railway - A Novel of Murder, Mystery and Steam (Jim Stringer)

Somme Stations

The Baghdad Railway Club (Jim Stringer)

The Somme Stations (Jim Stringer)

The Baghdad Railway Club (Jim Stringer)