Death on a Branch Line

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Author: Andrew Martin

It’s the sweltering summer of 1911, and one Friday evening a young aristocrat arrives into the custody of detective Jim Stringer, a man recently found guilty of murdering his father in the sleepy village of Adenwold. He warns Jim of another murder likely to happen in the same village – that of his brother, a reclusive intellectual. When Jim and his wife Lydia arrive at Ade….Read More

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