Night Train to Jamalpur (Jim Stringer) - Hardcover

Martin, Andrew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0571284094 ISBN 13: 9780571284092

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2013

Synopsis

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 along. Was he the intended target? Jim should have known that his secondment to the East Indian Railway, with a roving brief to inspect security arrangements, would not be the working holiday he had hoped for. The country seethes with political and racial tension. Aside from the Jamalpur shooting, someone is placing venomous snakes - including giant king cobras - in the first class compartments of the railway.

Jim also has worries on the home front: his daughter has formed a connection with a Maharajah's son, who may in turn have a connection to Jim's incredibly rude colleague, the bristling Major Fisher. Jim must do everything he can to keep his family safe from harm, as he unravels the intrigues that surround him...

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Review:

The author skilfully combines a plausible mystery story with an evocative portrait of the complexities of Raj society through which Stringer must, often clumsily, negotiate his path to the truth. Source: Nick Rennison, Sunday Times

Book Description:

In Andrew Martin's Night Train to Jamalpur, steam detective Jim Stringer travels from Calcutta to the mountain resort of Darjeeling, as he tries to solve a deadly mystery on the East Indian Railways . . .

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0571284094
• ISBN 13: 9780571284092
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352