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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 luck to have gotten his foot in the door at South East Railway, run out of Waterloo Station. He finds, however, that his duties involve a graveyard shift, literally—a railway line that takes coffins from London morgues to the gigantic new cemeteries being dug in the city's outskirts. He also learns that his predecessor had disappeared and that his coworkers seem to have formed an instant loathing for him. Forced to live by his wits and to arrive at his own deductions—assisted by his landlady, for whom he falls— he tries to figure out what is going on before he is issued a one-way ticket on the Necropolis Railway.
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Lincoln Hannah
reviewed The Necropolis Railway (Jim Stringer Series #1) on June 20, 2009
The Necropolis Railway (Jim Stringer Series #1)
This book was okay, and had a lot of what appeals to me in period mysteries; the feel of being taken to another world. The blurbs on the back include "loaded with railway lore" and "crackles with the idiom and slang of the period." And that was the problem-- it crackled so much I couldn't actually tell what the hell was going on, sometimes. When terms aren't defined, you can normally gather them by context, but when the context of the word in question is loaded with still *more* undefined terms, there's little to go by.
It also made the biggest error that mysteries can make, as far as I'm concerned-- leaving key elements of the plot until the ending reveal. I don't read mysteries just to guess the solution, but it's still irritating and frustrating to have facts show up after everything is all over.
I don't think I'll be buying any more in this series.
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