The Blackpool Highflyer Pa (Jim Stringer Mysteries)
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ISBN: 0156030691 / Publisher: Harper Paperbacks, July 2007
When railway man Jim Stringer is assigned to drive holidaymakers to Blackpool in 1905, he thinks he has struck it lucky, until his high-speed train encounters a huge millstone on the line and, in the months that follow, Jim, aided by his wife, hunts for the saboteur. Original.
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It is the summer of 1905 and Jim Stringer is copiloting a special train filled with overheated excursionists headed to Blackpool, the seaside resort on the English coast. At the moment when the train picks up speed, a huge rock comes into view farther down the tracks; it lies directly in their path. Full stop of the engine; full steam ahead with the mystery. As he did in The Necropolis Railway, Stringer doffs his railway hat and dons his detective’s derby, assisted once more by "the wife" and her brilliant detecting skills. Capturing the world of railway stations and locomotives during the Edwardian Age, The Blackpool Highflyer carries readers to a place where dark shadows lurk behind innocence and the solution to the mystery waits at the end of the line.
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