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The Lost Luggage Porter - Andrew Martin

Description: ISBN 0571219047 / Author: Andrew Martin / Genre: Crime / Thriller / In York, Winter, 1906 - two brothers have been shot to death. ... more

The Lost Luggage Porter - Andrew Martin ... 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...

Newest Review: ... is essential to evoke the period, a time which was so heavily dependent on the railway network for economic and social ... more

... expansion. Jim Stringer is new to his job having recently left working on the trains a period that is covered in the earlier novels. He's been posted to work at the railway police HQ in York station and even before he officially starts he is indirectly involved in the case of a brutal murder of two brothers both well known local petty criminals. Frustratingly for Stringer the investigation falls under the charge of the regular police even though the men had connections with the railway company and their bodies were foun...more

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The Lost Luggage Porter - Andrew Martin: Blood On The Tracks (1125 words)
by Mauri - written on 22.11.07 (Very useful, 180 readings)
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I seem to be reading a lot of historical crime novels recently and it is a genre that is appealing as it recreates the feel and atmosphere of the classic novels while injecting an element of contemporary interpretation to the characters and story...or at the least the better ones do. 'The Lost Luggage Porter' the third novel in the Jim Stringer detective series (following on from 'The Necropolis Railway' and the 'The Blackpool Highflyer') probably doesn't totally achieve these lofty goals but is nonetheless a good read. It harks back to the 'golden years' of the detective novel; think of fog filled Victorian alleyways frequented by Holmes and Watson or the ...

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