Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Night Train to Jamalpur Night Train to Jamalpur Andrew Martin North East India, 1923. On the broiling Night Mail from Calcutta to Jamalpur, a man is shot dead in a first class compartment. Detective Inspector Jim Stringer was sleeping in the next compartment al… OL17560406W
The Paper Man The Paper Man William Golding,Andrew Martin,Fernando Santos Fontenla A novel about the conflict between a curmudgeonly writer with many secrets and the professor who wants to gain access to his personal papers and become his official biographer. OL2430170W
The untold story of World War II's most daring jungle rescue The untold story of World War II's most daring jungle rescue Andrew Martin In the summer of 1942, Gyles Mackrell - a decorated First World War pilot and tea plantation overseer, performed a series of heroic rescues in the hellish jungles of Japanese-occupied Burma - with th… OL24444707W
The Lost Luggage Porter The Lost Luggage Porter Andrew Martin From the author of The Necropolis Railway and The Blackpool Highflyer comes another ingenious thriller featuring Jim Stringer. It is winter 1906 and Jim has been promoted from sleuth to official rail… OL6082897W
Murder at deviation junction Murder at deviation junction Andrew Martin The latest in Andrew Martins much-loved Jim Stringer, Steam Detective series. Andrew Martin has recreated an extraordinarily convincing world . . . Terrific. Daily TelegraphDecember, 1909. A train hi… OL6082898W
Funny You Should Say That Funny You Should Say That Andrew Martin A fool and his words are soon parted' wrote William Shenstone in 1764; one might add that 'A wit and his words are rarely collected'. Here is the antidote: a dazzling survey of the funniest remarks, … OL7986122W