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He has since worked as a freelance journalist for a number of publications while writing novels, starting with bilton, a comic novel about journalists, and the bobby dazzlers, a comic novel set in the north of england, for. The necropolis railway in 2002 inaugurated his winning synthesis of deftlysketched historical detail, intriguing plotting and a passion for steam railways. Andrew martin has recreated an extraordinarily convincing world. The necropolis railway andrew martin 9780571228782. Necropolis railway by andrew martin when railwayman jim stringer moves to the garish and tawdry london of 1903, he finds his duties are confined to a mysterious graveyard line. His series of detective novels about jim stringer, a railwayman reassigned to the north eastern railway police in edwardian england, includes the necropolis. Aug 10, 2002 the necropolis railway by andrew martin 231pp, faber. Pdf download the necropolis railway free ebooks pdf. The latest in andrew martins muchloved jim stringer, steam detective series. Pdf the brookwood necropolis railway download full pdf. The london necropolis railway was a railway line opened in november 1854 by the london necropolis company lnc, to carry corpses and mourners between london and the lncs newly opened brookwood cemetery 23 miles 37 km southwest of london in brookwood, surrey. After qualifying as a barrister he became a freelance journalist in which capacity he has tended to write about the north, class, trains, seaside towns and eccentric individuals rather than the doings of the famous, although he did once loop the loop in a biplane with gary numan. This book is set in the winter of 1903 when jim stringer, a humble porter from yorkshire moves to london having accepted the offer of a job as an engine cleaner working for the london necropolis company.
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