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 on the trail of pickpockets, 'station loungers' and other small fry of the York underworld.
But then in a tiny, one-room pub with a badly smoking fire he enters the orbit of a dangerous, disturbed villain who is playing for much higher stakes . . .
ISBN: | 9780571219049 |
Publication date: | 3rd May 2007 |
Author: | Andrew Martin |
Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 320 pages |
Series: | Jim Stringer, Steam Detective |
Genres: |
Crime and Mystery |