Death on a Branch Line, Paperback - Andrew Martin

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 fo...

Publisher: Stenlake PublishingAuthor(s): Jonathan BeaumontIllustration(s): 130 photographs, plans, illustrationsNumber of pages: 160Collection: Loc...

With academic disputes, sporting rivalry and a clandestine romance in play, the Railway Detective will have to disentangle the many threads of Pome...

Recapturing the glamour and intrigue of the night train, the author charts its rise and fall and rediscovers the pleasures of a continent connected...

With academic disputes, sporting rivalry and a clandestine romance in play, the Railway Detective will have to disentangle the many threads of Pome...

Paperback edition of the latest case for Jim Stringer, the railway detective. WWI has begun, and Stringer is enlisted into the army. But one of his...

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The police set out on the trail of a bitter former musician who winks at the victim before killing them in the summer of 1976. Introduces an outrag...

Expanding the world of his classic-in-the-making debut novel Early Work, Andrew Martin's Cool for America is a hilarious collection of overlapping ...

Why is the Victoria Line so hot? What is an Electrical Multiple Unit? Is it really possible to ride from King's Cross to King's Cross on the Circle...

Publisher: Middleton PressAuthor(s): Keith SmithIllustration(s): 120ill.M.Number of pages: 96Collection: Narrow GaugePublication date: 1992Dimensio...

Publisher: Middleton PressAuthor(s): Keith SmithIllustration(s): 120 b&w photographs, mapsNumber of pages: 96Collection: Branch Lines S.Publication...

Now in paperback, this is the latest title in Martin's mystery series featuring 'railway detective' Jim Stringer. Set in Baghdad in 1917, as String...

A delightful exploration of a very British obsession.Publisher: Profile Books LtdAuthor(s): Andrew MartinIllustration(s): 8pp colour insertNumber o...

1920s steam detective Jim Stringer travels from Calcutta to Darjeeling, trying to solve a deadly mystery on the East India Railways. Part of an acc...

In Powder Smoke we see the return of Jim Stringer, Martin's Railway Detective, back by popular demand, and Corsair's first book in the series. All ...

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Reducere. A majestic road trip across England, filled with stunning landscapes, incredible sights and the odd dead body along the way.Lord Edgington and his ...

Reducere. Someone in this town is keeping a deadly secret. Brett Buchanan never imagined herself returning to Crestwood, Washington where her sister was murd...

Reducere. A retelling of "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" like you've never seen before For six hundred years I have dwelt in this prison. Trapped. Helpless. ...

Bristol is a perfect city to explore on foot and the Severn Beach Line is the gateway to some of its finest sights. This guide has short strolls ex...

A revealing memoir of a decade on the streets of London as a female police constable and a unique insight into a city and the cost of keeping it safe.

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Reducere. Christmas at the castle with holly, handmade gifts, snowflakes and... is that a body under the tree? Someone call Lady Swift! Winter, 1921. Lady El...

On the morning of Saturday 22nd April 1978, members of an Active Service Unit of the IRA hijacked a car and crossed the countryside to the town of ...

Uncovers the remains of nearly 400 Home Guard emplacements scattered across Somerset, Dorset and Devon.

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The untold story of an IRA unit, and a killing that has echoed across the decades

The first book in the Shetland Sailing Mysteries by Shetland Noir author Marsali Taylor.Publisher: Headline Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Marsali Tayl...

Reducere. (Limelight). A Chorus Line, the biggest Broadway hit of its generation, is returning to Times Square in a major fall 2006 revival. The show is base...

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Publisher: Middleton PressAuthor(s): Vic MitchellIllustration(s): 120 Black And White Photographs Plus Maps And Text.Number of pages: 96Collection:...

Reducere. "If only I do not die here." After falling ill during a visit to Bayreuth, Franz Liszt uttered this melancholy refrain throughout his final days, w...

I loved it.' Rosie Goodwin on The Dover Cafe at War- - - - - - - - - Readers love The Dover Cafe at War: 'A brilliant evocation of a family and com...

Drawing on a range of popular Gothic and Victorian novels, poems and short stories, this book provides the first full length study of representatio...

Shells on a Chifferobe is based on the true story of a young woman named Helen; a single parent, rearing two children in the deep south at the end ...

Reducere. Don't Think About Death: A Memoir on Mortality presents an unconventional take on how we live with death-or try to at least. It is spurred, in part...

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Publisher: Irwell PressAuthor(s): George ReeveIllustration(s): 500 colour illustrationsNumber of pages: 250Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 305 x ...

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Reducere. DescriptionOver a career spanning nearly four decades, Rick Unklesbay has tried over one hundred murder cases before juries that ended with sixteen...

Agatha Christie makes for Baghdad to set to rights whether or not there was foul play in the presumed drugs overdose of an explorer and writer pass...

An anthology of the poetry of World War I, this collection is more concerned with the War than with poetry, and as such it is a book with a theme. ...

DescriptionHave aliens really visited us? What do they look like? Where do they come from and why are they here? Have they given us messages in Cro...

The final story to feature Taylor, the Charlton Heston character from Planet Of The Apes. Scheduled for release two months before the new film.