Murder In Broadway by Stephen Done
THEY'RE OFF! DI Charles Vignoles and his British Railways Detective team are pitched in among the runners and riders for the 1955 Cheltenham Gold Cup, sprung from the starting gates all because a little girl loses a worthless jewel down the back of a railway carriage seat. But others think this little sparkler is worth Murder In Broadway . . . Just when you thought it was safe to go into Cheltenham Racecourse's Royal Enclosure to study equestrian form with Her Majesty, a deadly duo stroll in with orders to retrieve this rock from a dodgy toff, their thirst for forensic cruelty unabated from the previous Vignoles investigation, Cold Steel Rail. Faster than `The Cheltenham Flyer' express, the action races back and forth across the country, as Vignoles grapples with not only a rising body count stretching from the Cotswolds to London's East End, but the naked ambition of a brash new deputy forced upon him. The mid-1950s are brought deftly to life as Stephen Done marshals his colourful cast of characters, when steam still powered the nation's travel. In spite of those chill, ill winds scything across the bleak Cotswold countryside, in racing terms Murder In Broadway is a Gold Cup winner!
Stephen Done August 3rd 1968, and it was my eighth birthday. Whilst dressed in my new Batman cape, (with best friend Sean in a bright yellow Robin cape), dark, thunder clouds gathered behind our house on the outskirts of Scarborough as I declared `I wanted to become the driver of a steam engine.' Only to be told that the last steam engines were departing the next day... Perhaps that is why I took up writing about steam trains instead. Almost 40 years later I actually managed it, spending a week driving and firing a huge Polish locomotives on real service trains filled with - strangely relaxed and unconcerned - Polish commuters. I never knew the Great Central Railway when operational but spent some teenage years in Brackley and watched the great viaduct being demolished, so I have tried to breathe life back into the large sections of the line that are now silent and overgrown by taking readers back to time when steam still ruled the rails and am a member of the Friends of the Great Central Railway. A museum curator by profession and have been official historian and curator of the Liverpool Football Club museum at Anfield since 1997. I like bird watching, gardening and walking plus railway modelling (when time and space allow) ...and a good real ale! I am happy to give readings and talks about the Inspector Vignoles Mysteries, about the period he books are set and their railway settings to schools, book clubs and other interested groups. Please get in touch...
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781916401020 |
| ISBN 10 | 1916401023 |
| Title | Murder In Broadway |
| Author | Stephen Done |
| Series | The Inspector Vignoles Mysteries |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The Vignoles Press |
| Year published | 2019-08-20 |
| Number of pages | 268 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |