Andrew Martin

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  • Bibliography:
    21 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 2007
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Full Series List in Order

A Jim Stringer Mystery

1 - The Necropolis Railway (Jan-2007)
2 - The Blackpool Highflyer (Jul-2007)
3 - The Lost Luggage Porter (Jan-2008)
4 - Murder at Deviation Junction (Jan-2009)
5 - Death on a Branch Line (Apr-2009)

Book List in Order: 21 titles

  • The Necropolis Railway

    A Jim Stringer Mystery - 1

    Bright and ambitious, young Jim Stringer moves from the English countryside to London deter- mined to become a railway man. It is 1903, the dawn of the Edwardian age, when steam runs the nation and the railways drive progress. Jim can't believe his l...

  • The Blackpool Highflyer

    A Jim Stringer Mystery - 2

    It is the summer of 1905 and Jim Stringer is copiloting a special train filled with overheated excursionists headed to Blackpool, the seaside resort on the English coast. At the moment when the train picks up speed, a huge rock comes into view farthe...

  • The Lost Luggage Porter

    A Jim Stringer Mystery - 3

    From the author of The Necropolis Railway and The Blackpool Highflyer comes another ingenious thriller featuring Jim Stringer. It is winter 1906 and Jim has been promoted from sleuth to official railway detective for York station. His first day on th...

  • Murder at Deviation Junction

    A Jim Stringer Mystery - 4

    From the author of The Necropolis Railway, The Blackpool Highflyer, and The Lost Luggage Porter comes another thrilling mystery featuring railway detective Jim Stringer. It is winter 1909, and Jim desperately needs his anticipated New Year’s promot...

  • The Last Train to Scarborough

    A riveting new adventure for Jim Stringer, Andrew Martin's celebrated 'Steam Detective'.It is March 1914, and Jim Stringer is uneasy about his next assignment. It's not so much the prospect of a Scarborough lodging house in the gloomy off-season that...

  • Death on a Branch Line

    A Jim Stringer Mystery - 5

    It is the summer of 1911 and as Britain is gripped by paranoia about German spies and secret preparations for war, railway detective Jim Stringer decides to set out for a much-needed holiday.But before he can leave he finds himself escorting a young ...

  • The Somme Stations

    On the first day of the Somme enlisted railwayman Jim Stringer lies trapped in a shell hole, smoking cigarette after cigarette under the bullets and the blazing sun. He calculates his chances of survival - even before they departed for France, a memb...

  • The Lost City of Scioto

    This book is a mythology for Columbus, Ohio and Buckeye Fans everywhere....

  • The Baghdad Railway Club

    Baghdad 1917. Captain Jim Stringer, invalided from the Western Front, has been dispatched to investigate what looks like a nasty case of treason. He arrives to find a city on the point of insurrection, his cover apparently blown - and his only contac...



  • Night Train to Jamalpur

    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 kn...

  • The Monsters of Test Stand B

  • A Return to Stennis

    An insidious invasion force of extraterrestrials penetrates our government in Washington DC and elsewhere to the point of saturation. Smart engineers at NASA identify the threat and seek to disarm it by any means available. The adventure unfolds and ...

  • The Yellow Diamond

    Detective Superintendent George Quinn - Mayfair resident and dandy with a razor-sharp brain - has set up a new police unit, dedicated to investigating the super-rich. When he is shot in mysterious circumstances, DI Blake Reynolds is charged with taki...

  • Soot

    'An enticing and clever book, inside and out' Book Of The Month - The TimesYork, 1799. In August, an artist is found murdered in his home - stabbed with a pair of scissors. Matthew Harvey's death is much discussed in the city. The scissors are among...

  • Early Work

    Andrew Martin’s serio-comic debut novel, EARLY WORK, follows an aspirational author desperately seeking his muse in all the wrong places―only to find it in an adventurous woman with a unique perspective on life and love. For young writers of a...

  • The Martian Girl

    Ingeniously constructed . . . Andrew Martin's wry, amused tone is a constant joy . . . An altogether superior performance, The Martian Girl is a violent, funny, deadly serious entertainment' Irish TimesLondon, present day. Jean, a failing journalist ...

  • The Winker

    'A highly enjoyable game of cat-and-mouse with perfect period texture and some nicely wry humour' The Guardian'This playful caper is equally successful as a detailed, culture-rich evocation of its period and an English reworking of Patricia Highsmith...

  • Like a Lover Never Leaving

    This updated and expanded version of Like a Lover Never Leaving represents what the author originally intended to publish, and it is the culmination of a decade's living and writing. In addition to the novella being revised, this edition features a p...

  • Cool for America: Stories

    Expanding the world of his classic-in-the-making debut novel Early Work, Andrew Martin’s Cool for America is a hilarious collection of overlapping stories that explores the dark zone between artistic ambition and its achievementThe collection is bo...



  • Powder Smoke

  • Yorkshire

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Andrew Martin has published 21 books.

Andrew Martin does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Yorkshire, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Andrew Martin, The Necropolis Railway, was published in January 2007.

Yes. Andrew Martin has 1 series.
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