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Night Train to Jamalpur

By: Andrew Martin
Narrated by: Richard Burnip
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North East India, 1923: On the Night Mail to Jamalpur, a man is shot dead in a first class compartment. Detective Inspector Jim Stringer was sleeping in the next compartment along. Was he the intended target?

Jim should have known that his secondment to the East Indian Railway would not be the working holiday he had hoped for. Aside from the Jamalpur shooting, someone is placing venomous snakes in the first class compartments of the railway. Jim also has worries on the home front: His daughter has formed a connection with a Maharajah's son, who may in turn have a connection to the bristling Major Fisher. Jim must do everything he can to keep his family safe from harm.

©2013 Andrew Martin (P)2014 Isis Publishing Ltd Fiction Historical Fiction International Mystery & Crime Mystery Transportation

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Being familiar with Andrew Morton's sleep stories written for the Calm app, some of which involve India and historical trains, I thought I would try one of his crime novels. Despite the undoubted historical virtuosity with respect to Indian railways, I found I disliked the hero, railway detective Jim Stringer, who is a bit of a woodentop, being given to instant unreasonable suspicions and tiresome class assumptions. He is completely unable to communicate with his socialist wife and rather shallow daughter, who are flat and boring. He is not good at communicating with his colleagues either.
The central murder mystery is convoluted and difficult to follow, with quite a few dislikeable colleagues, including Stringer's bullying deputy, Inspector Fisher and the hard-nosed muslim Detective Inspector Khan of dubious loyalties. The "political" subplot about venomous snakes left in first-class carriages is even more opaque and hard to follow. Too much of the action takes place in claustrophobic, male-dominated bars, clubs, offices and carriages, which all the characters fill with stifling cigarette and cigar smoke - the brands involved seemingly being part of the plot in ways that I was utterly unable to fathom. At the end, I found I was able to care very much about the scantily revealed solutions.

India through a haze of cigarette smoke

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I got this after seeing Andrew Martin's television programme about forgotten trains of Britain.
This has fascinating details about railways, in addition to a bizarre mystery - which our hero solves eventually.- mainly using brainpower.
He is a very likeable person, who is very well described. The story has good touches of humour as well.

Very entertaining

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