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Murder at Deviation Junction Paperback – 1 June 2008

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The latest in the Jim Stringer, Steam Detective series. A train hits a snow drift in the frozen Cleveland Hills. In the process of clearing the line a body is discovered, and so begins a dangerous case for struggling Edwardian railway detective, Jim Stringer. Jim's new investigation takes him to the mighty blast furnaces of Ironopolis, to Fleet Street in the company of a cynical reporter from The Railway Rover, and to a nightmarish spot in the Highlands. Jim's faltering career in the railway police hangs on whether he can solve the murder - but before long the pursuer becomes the pursued, and Jim finds himself fighting not just for his job, but for his very life as well.

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Publisher : Faber Paperback; Main edition (1 June 2008)
Language : English
Paperback : 256 pages
ISBN-10 : 0571229662
ISBN-13 : 978-0571229666
Dimensions : 12.7 x 1.6 x 19.3 cm

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Andrew Martin grew up in Yorkshire. After qualifying as a barrister he became a freelance journalist and has written for the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, the Independent on Sunday and Granta, among many other publications, and his weekly column appears in the New Statesman.

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M C Trull

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Reviewed in Australia on 21 December 2014

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Great Book for those interested in railway or Victorian Britain.

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WALSHY

East Cleveland is chuffed by this book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 November 2011

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Nothing better that a good whoodunit thriller for those seemingly long days and nights that between Christmas Day and New Years Eve, and what better than one that, amazingly, sets the bulk of its action right here in East Cleveland - the little bit of the UK that this writer comes from and where he lives, an area that Andrew martin christens the 'Ironlands'.

You should best read this book in the evenings, when the distant rumble and vibration of the trains bringing wagon loads of potash along the winding line from the Boulby Mine to Saltburn can be heard across the dark fields and back streets.

All of this is a hopelessly long-winded way of saying that I was well disposed to Andrew Martin's novel, Murder at Deviation Junction, featuring "Jim Stringer, Steam Detective", a mystery set largely both in the mining villages of East Cleveland and Middlesbrough in the gaslit week running up to Christmas 1909.

Jim Stringer, is a member of the North East Railway Police, based at York Station, and whose normal mundane day to day work is chasing fare dodgers and luggage thieves, is returning to York the long way round via Whitby from a fruitless trip to Middlesbrough where he had been pursuing an early version of the football hooligan, and finds himself stuck in snow at Deviation Junction (a thinly disguised Carlin How) where he is on hand to witness the finding of a corpse of a man in an unused lineside hut.

Being ambitious - and up for a promotion to Detective Sergeant, something which also carries the prospect of placating his rather pushy wife, he decides to investigate the case despite being off his patch geographically and finding himself in conflict with his bullying boss.

In this he colludes with the Edwardian proto-beer monster Stephen Bowman, an itinerant reporter for The Railway Rover Magazine, and their trail leads to the mystery of the collective demise of a group of Teesside industrialists and local gentry, men who previously travelled to their Middlesbrough offices in the exclusive confines of their own Club class carriage. The pen portraits of these men, mine owners, shipping agents, ironmasters and lawyers, is one I can recognise from the history of our past, and the description of the fine old Middlesbrough Royal Exchange - a fine old building now sadly lost to the A66 flyover, and the centre of these men's professional life - is gripping.

The investigation of the disappearance of these men, and the body at Carlin How, now roves further abroad with Jim Stringer going from an over the border pub in Middlesbrough to London's Fleet Street and thence on to the far North of Scotland before the eventual cliff hanging ending at - of all places - the railway viaduct above Kilton Beck and Skinningrove Village on a snowy Christmas eve.

In this adventure, no-one is what they seem - certainly amongst Jim Stringer's police colleagues - and cross and double cross is the order of the day. Indeed, Jim puts both his job and his marriage on the line to pursue the murderers, but at the end the case is simply and finally an open and shut one (and that's the only clue I will give).

This book should be on every Teessider's stocking list.

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Ricpa

A journey in time.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 September 2014

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I have read many of the Jim Stringer novels, not in chronological number which I thought might have been a problem - but was not. Once I had got used to the first person rather direct and sometimes vaguely crude style I must say I was enthralled by the read! For me the enjoyment was not so much the plot/ whodunit aspect, which I usually have trouble grasping even with the simplest of plots, but in trying to unravel Stringers complex and quite often contradictory personality brought on by his desire to be a footplateman. Clearly his intellect and ambitious wife drives him in a totally different direction. Actually something I relate to!

Andrew Martin evokes that period powerfully and having read his tome on the Tube I can see where his authoritative narratives on railway life in the early 1900s comes from. One thing though, were married couples quite so explicit with expressing their sexual desires then!

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Mr. C. R. Simmonds

Jim Stringer cracks another case!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 September 2013

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The combination of steam railways in a bygone era, plus a good plot with tension, twists and turns and, of course the character of Jim Stringer, makes this a very enjoyable read and a book not to be missed. The author's style is interesting, informative and descriptive and provides a complete mental picture of the situations and scenarios for the reader.
A very enjoyable read for all ages.

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Rev Peter Waterhouse

Twists and Turns along the Line

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 August 2013

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Middlesbrough may seem an unlikely setting for a first rate historical crime story but that is exactly what it is in "Murder at Deviation Junction". Set in the dark days before a Christmas in the early years of last century the atmosphere of industrial Middlesbrough (Ironopolis, "The Infant Hercules" )
and the iron mining communities in the neighbouring Cleveland Hills is splendidly evoked as Jim Stringer, frustrated engine driver reluctantly turned railway detective, attempts to untangle the mystery of a dead man found in a deserted, snowbound platelayers' cabin. It could be suicide, but Jim has his doubts and starts his investigation.

So begins a trail that leads to London and to the Scottish Highlands and nothing is quite what it seems as surprise follows surprise, but in the end it is the railway and its workings that provide the clues. Reminiscent in some ways of the breathless action of "The Thirty Nine Steps" ( but far more real) and set against both Jim's home life with his loving but unconventionally minded wife and his fractious relationships with his colleagues in the York railway police office, this is a great story that will keep you gripped to the end of the line.

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david holmes

A long journey

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 October 2017

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The tale travels along fairly well but I do question if a detective constable would have the freedom of movement our intrepid hero appears to enjoy

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