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'A period thriller with a difference from talented Andrew 'Bilton' Martin ... Fine period recreation, chilling tale.' -- Time Out, Summer Reading Choice

'An impressive achievement ... An unsentimental yet touching chiaroscuro evocation of London in the age of steam.' -- David Kynaston, author of The City of London

'Guaranteed to make the flesh creep and the skin crawl, a masterful novel about a mad, clanking, fog-bound world.' -- Simon Winchester

(A) brilliant murder mystery set in Edwardian London about a railway line that runs only to a massive cemetery. -- The Mirror, August 2002

(An) ingenious and atmospheric thriller ... An eccentric delight. -- The Express, 17 August 2002

A classy potboiler whose plot continually shifts in the best formal traditions of Dickens and Collins (let alone Christie and Chandler). -- The Times, 10 August 2002

In this compact, pacy story, he seems to have got it all right. -- Guardian, 10 August 2002
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"Martin s debut, loaded with railway lore, pairs a lively, often macabre look at turn-of-the-century London with a bang-up mystery." Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"A classy potboiler . . . in the best formal traditions of Dickens and Collins (let alone Christie and Chandler)." The Times (London)
When railway man Jim Stringer moves to the garish and tawdry London of 1903, he finds his duties are confined to a mysterious graveyard line. Perplexingly, the men he works alongside have formed an instant loathing for him, and his predecessor has disappeared under suspicious circumstances. Forced to live by his wits and assisted by his alluring landlady, he struggles to unearth the truth before he is issued a one-way ticket on the Necropolis Railway.
"An ingenious and atmospheric thriller . . . crackles with the idiom and slang of the period. An eccentric delight."--Daily Express (London)
"So diverting that reader and hero are swept off their feet into a noisy, steamy, antiquated world of great danger." The Guardian (Book of the Week)
ANDREW MARTIN was a Spectator (London) Young Writer of the Year. He lives in London.
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  • PublisherFaber and Faber
  • Publication date2002
  • ISBN 10 0571209610
  • ISBN 13 9780571209613
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages240
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