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Informationen zum Autor Andrew Martin is a journalist and novelist. His critically praised 'Jim Stringer' series began with The Necropolis Railway in 2002. The following titles in the series, Murder at Deviation Junction and Death on a Branch Line , were shortlisted for the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Crime Award and, in 2008, Andrew Martin was shortlisted for the CWA Dagger in the Library Award. The Somme Stations won the 2011 CWA Ellis Peters Historical Crime Award. Klappentext Paperback edition of the latest case for Jim Stringer, the railway detective. WWI has begun, and Stringer is enlisted into the army. But one of his fellow soldiers is murdered even before they depart for France. On the first day of the Somme, Stringer must try and solve the mystery whilst fighting on the front line. Over 150,000 copies of books in the series have been sold. 'An engaging read, with plenty of tension and atmosphere.' "Daily Mail" The Somme Stations by Andrew Martin is a stunning historical novel of crime in the trenches from the acclaimed author of the Jim Stringer series. Zusammenfassung 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.