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Andrew Martin

1962

12 fiction · 5 non-fiction

Andrew Martin is an English novelist, journalist and railway historian, born in York in 1962. He studied at Oxford and qualified as a barrister before turning to journalism and writing. Martin has written both fiction and non-fiction, with railways forming a recurring interest across much of his work; he is the son of a railwayman and has written histories including Underground, Overground, Night Trains and Belles and Whistles. His fiction is particularly notable for combining detailed social and transport history with crime, using stations, railway offices, hotels and industrial landscapes as integral parts of the setting rather than simply as period decoration.

Martin is best known for the Jim Stringer historical mysteries, which follow a Yorkshire railwayman who becomes a detective with the North Eastern Railway Police. Beginning with The Necropolis Railway, the sequence moves through Edwardian Britain, the years immediately before the First World War and eventually into the interwar period, with titles including The Blackpool Highflyer, The Lost Luggage Porter, Murder at Deviation Junction, Death on a Branch Line, The Last Train to Scarborough, The Somme Stations, The Baghdad Railway Club, Night Train to Jamalpur and Powder Smoke. The Somme Stations won the Crime Writers’ Association Ellis Peters Historical Award in 2011. Martin has also written historical novels outside the Stringer series, including Soot, set in eighteenth-century York, and The Moquette Mystery, set in Britain in 1938.

Periods and events

Battle of the Somme1916 CE British Raj1858–1947 CE Edwardian Society1901–1914 CE Georgian Crime and the Bloody Code1714–1837 CE Interwar Period1918–1939 CE Post-war Britain1945–1963 CE Pre-War Europe1900–1914 CE Victorian Railway Expansion1851–1867 CE

Historical fiction

Historical fiction series by Andrew Martin (1 series)

Jim Stringer in Order

by Andrew Martin 10 books 3.6(5,269)

The Jim Stringer series follows a Yorkshire railwayman whose ambition to work with steam locomotives leads him into detection and eventually into the railway police. Beginning in Edwardian London in 1903, the novels move through the great railway companies, stations and working communities of pre-war Britain, using crimes…

Historical fiction

Standalone historical fiction by Andrew Martin (2 books)

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Non-fiction

Non-fiction by Andrew Martin (5 books)

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