The Necropolis Railway : A Novel of Murder, Mystery, and Steam [Signed]
by Martin, Andrew
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0571209610
- ISBN 13
- 9780571209613
- Seller
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SHREWSBURY, Shropshire, United Kingdom
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Synopsis
Bright and ambitious, young Jim Stringer moves from the English countryside to London deter- mined to become a railway man. It is 1903, the dawn of the Edwardian age, when steam runs the nation and the railways drive progress. Jim can’t believe his luck to have gotten his foot in the door at South East Railway, run out of Waterloo Station. He finds, however, that his duties involve a graveyard shift, literally—a railway line that takes coffins from London morgues to the gigantic new cemeteries being dug in the city’s outskirts. He also learns that his predecessor had disappeared and that his coworkers seem to have formed an instant loathing for him. Forced to live by his wits and to arrive at his own deductions—assisted by his landlady, for whom he falls— he tries to figure out what is going on before he is issued a one-way ticket on the Necropolis Railway.
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- Bookseller
- Nigel Sustins Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009412
- Title
- The Necropolis Railway : A Novel of Murder, Mystery, and Steam [Signed]
- Author
- Martin, Andrew
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0571209610
- ISBN 13
- 9780571209613
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- Necropolis Railway Martin Steam Brookwood Stringer Signed
- Bookseller catalogs
- Crime;
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