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The Last Train to Scarborough

The Last Train to Scarborough

Author(s): Andrew Martin

Location(s): Scarborough

Genre(s): Mystery

Era(s): Early 1900s

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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…

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Really evocative of locale and era – TG –

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