The Last Train to Scarborough Paperback – 1 April 2010
Andrew Martin . Faber & Faber . English
One night, in a private boarding house in Scarborough, a railwayman vanishes, leaving his belongings behind... It is the eve of the Great War, and Jim Stringer, railway detective, is uneasy about his next assignment. It's not so much the prospect Scarborough in the gloomy off-season that bothers him, or even the fact that the last railwayman to stay in the house has disappeared without trace. It's more that his governer, Chief Inspector Saul Weatherhill, seems to be deliberately holding back details of the case - and that he's been sent to Scarborough with a trigger-happy assistant. And when Jim encounters the seductive and beautiful Amanda Rickerby a whole new personal danger enters Jim's life...
Categories: Action & Adventure
About the Author
Andrew Martin grew up in Yorkshire (see his book, Yorkshire - There and Back) and drifted into writing after qualifying as a barrister. He is the award-winning author of about thirty books - both fiction and non-fiction, the latter usually historical crime. Some of his books are about trains, including his series of historical crime novels featuring the railwayman, Jim Stringer. The tenth in that series, Powder Smoke, was published in 2021. His non-fiction railway books include Underground Overground, Night Trains, Seats of London and Metropolitain. His non-railway novels include Soot, The Winker and (written as AJ Martin) The Night in Venice, forthcoming from Weidenfeld in July 2024. He writes a Substack called Reading on Trains.
