The Blackpool Highflyer (Jim Stringer)

Author: Martin, Andrew

Brand: Penguin Random House

Edition: Main

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 352

Release Date: 27-09-2005

Part Number: 9780571219025

Details: Product Description
'Genuinely gripping ... A brilliant evocation of Edwardian working-class life - the sort of thing DH Lawrence might have written had he been less verbose or been blessed with a sense of humour.' Peter Parker, Evening StandardThe second Jim Stringer adventure, The Blackpool Highflyer is a superbly atmospheric thriller of sabotage, suspicion and steam. 'Unique and important ... There is no one else who is writing like Andrew Martin today.' Ian Marchant, Guardian'Evokes Edwardian Yorkshire and Lancashire, their great industrial prosperity and singular ways of living, quite brilliantly in a historical whodunnit which for its fresh and stealthy approach to past times deserves the adjective Bainbridgean.' Ian Jack, Guardian (Books of the Year)'A steamy whodunnit ... This may well be the best fiction about the railways since Dickens.' Michael Williams, Independent on Sunday
Review
"'Genuinely gripping... A brilliant evocation of Edwardian working-class life - the sort of thing D.H. Lawrence might have written had he been less verbose or been blessed with a sense of humour.' Peter Parker, Evening Standard 'Evokes Edwardian Yorkshire and Lancashire, their great industrial prosperity and singular ways of living, quite brilliantly in a historical whodunnit which for its fresh and stealthy approach to past times deserves the adjective Bainbridgean.' Ian Jack, Guardian (Books of the Year) 'A steamy whodunnit... This may well be the best fiction about the railways since Dickens.' Michael Williams, Independent on Sunday 'Unique and important... There is no one else who is writing like Andrew Martin today.' Ian Marchant, Guardian"
Book Description
The Blackpool Highflyer by Andrew Martin is the second Jim Stringer adventure, a superbly atmospheric thriller of sabotage, suspicion and steam.
About the Author
Andrew Martin is a journalist and novelist. His critically praised 'Jim Stringer' series began with
The Necropolis Railway in 2002. The following titles in the series,
Murder at Deviation Junction and
Death on a Branch Line, were shortlisted for the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Crime Award and, in 2008, Andrew Martin was shortlisted for the CWA Dagger in the Library Award.
The Somme Stations won the 2011 CWA Ellis Peters Historical Crime Award.

EAN: 9780571219025

Package Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.0 x 0.9 inches

Languages: English