From the author of "The Necropolis Railway" and "The
Blackpool Highflyer" comes another atmospheric thriller of
sabotage, suspicion and steam. It's Jim Stringer's first
day as an official railway detective, working from York Station for
the mighty North Eastern Railway Company. On the station platform,
Stringer meets the Lost Luggage Porter, humblest among the
railway's employees. He tells Jim a tale which leads him to the
roughest part of town, a place where the police constables always
walk in twos. Again, with the help of his brilliant and fearless
wife, Jim is off on the trail of pickpockets, 'station
loungers' and other small fry of the York underworld. But then,
in a tiny, one-room pub with a badly smoking fire Stringer enters
the orbit of a dangerous, disturbed villain who is playing for much
higher stakes.
