The Lost Luggage Porter

from johnthefireman

To my mind this is the best of the three railway detective books to date. Our hero is now a real, rather than an amateur, detective. The actual detective story is better than the previous two, and the railway context continues to be absorbing. I think the author does a good job of conjuring up th...

from omphalos02

Fine writing evokes turn-of-the-century England in a suspense tale of robbery and murder connected to the railyards of York.

from ngmcd

York sounds a very dangerous place according to this book. Stringer, the Steam Detective, gets in over his head here as he becomes involved in a criminal gang out to rob the railway. This reader got the impression that Martin didn't know how to end the story - the shoot out at the end isn't terri...