The Blackpool Highflyer

Andrew Martin

Book 2 of Jim Stringer

Language: English

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Historical Mystery Suspense

Publisher: Harvest

Published: Jan 1, 2004

Pages: 379

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'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

<div><p>'A steamy whodunnit . . . This may well be the best fiction about the railways since Dickens.' <i>Independent on Sunday</i></p><p><i></i></p><p><i></i>'Genuinely gripping . . . 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, <i>Evening Standard</i> (Books of the Year)</p><p><b><i></i></b></p><p><b><i></i>A superbly atmospheric thriller of sabotage, suspicion and steam, <i>The Blackpool Highflyer</i> brings a new twist to tales of Edwardian England and amateur sleuthing. Assigned to drive holidaymakers to the seaside resort of Blackpool in the hot summer of 1905, Jim Stringer is happy to have left behind the grime and danger of life in London. But his dreams of beer and pretty women are soon shattered - when his high-speed train...