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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Mariner Books
Publication date
January 15, 2007
Pages
246
Binding
Paperback
Edition
1
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780156030687
ISBN-10
0156030683
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.25 by 8 in.
Weight
0.50 lbs.
Original list price
$16.95
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Moving to London in 1903 in his endeavor to become a railway man, ambitious young Jim Stringer takes a graveyard shift moving coffins to cemeteries outside of the city and struggles with his predecessor's untimely disappearance and his co-worker's unsettling animosity. Original.
Amazon.com description: Product Description:
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 canât 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, literallyâa railway line that takes coffins from London morgues to the gigantic new cemeteries being dug in the cityâs 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 deductionsâassisted by his landlady, for whom he fallsâ 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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1 edition from Mariner Books (January 15, 2007)
9780156030687 | details & prices | 246 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $16.95
About: Moving to London in 1903 in his endeavor to become a railway man, ambitious young Jim Stringer takes a graveyard shift moving coffins to cemeteries outside of the city and struggles with his predecessor's untimely disappearance and his co-worker's unsettling animosity.
About: Moving to London in 1903 in his endeavor to become a railway man, ambitious young Jim Stringer takes a graveyard shift moving coffins to cemeteries outside of the city and struggles with his predecessor's untimely disappearance and his co-worker's unsettling animosity.
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