Andrew Martin
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- Profile Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-560-5
EAN 9781781255605
Night trains have long fascinated us with the possibilities of their private sleeping compartments, gilded dining cars, champagne bars and wealthy travellers. Authors from Agatha Christie to Graham Greene have used night trains to tell tales of romance, intrigue and decadence against a rolling background of dramatic landscapes. The reality could often be as thrilling: ...
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Belles and Whistles
Journeys Through Time on Britain's Trains
- Profile Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-213-0
EAN 9781781252130
In the heroic days of rail travel, you could dine on kippers and champagne aboard the Brighton Belle; smoke a post-prandial cigar as the Golden Arrow closed in on Paris, or be shaved by the Flying Scotsman's on-board barber. Everyone from schoolboys to socialites knew of these glamorous 'named trains' and aspired to ride aboard ...
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- Faber, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-24965-7
EAN 9780571249657
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 ...
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- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-24964-0
EAN 9780571249640
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, ...
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- Faber, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-22970-3
EAN 9780571229703
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 ...
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- Faber, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 10,80 €
ISBN 978-0-571-22968-0
EAN 9780571229680
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 ...
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- Faber, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-0-571-22966-6
EAN 9780571229666
A train hits a snow drift in the frozen Cleveland Hills. In the process of clearing the line a body is discovered, and so begins a dangerous case for struggling Edwardian railway detective, Jim Stringer. Jim's new investigation takes him to the mighty blast furnaces of Ironopolis, to Fleet Street in the company of a ...
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- Faber, 2007
Encuadernación en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 10,80 €
ISBN 978-0-571-21904-9
EAN 9780571219049
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 ...
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- Faber, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 9,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-21902-5
EAN 9780571219025
The second Jim Stringer adventure, The Blackpool Highflyer is a superbly atmospheric thriller of sabotage, suspicion and steam.
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