The Case of the 'Hail Mary' Celeste

✍ Scribed by Pryce, Malcolm

• Book ID: 108577530
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 172 KB
• Series: Jack Wenlock, Railway Detective 1
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781408851937

✦ Synopsis

It was Tuesday the second of December 1947 when Jenny the Spiddler walked into my office: almost a month before they nationalised my mother.

Jack Wenlock is the last of the Railway Goslings: that fabled cadre of railway detectives created at the Weeping Cross Railway Servants' Orphanage, who trod the corridors of the GWR trains in the years 1925 to 1947. Sworn to uphold the name of God's Wonderful Railway and all that the good men of England fought for in two world wars, Jack keeps the trains free of fare dodgers and purse-stealers, bounders and confidence tricksters, German spies and ladies of the night.

But now, as the clock ticks down towards the nationalisation of the railways Jack finds himself investigating a case that begins with an abducted great aunt, but soon develops into something far darker and more dangerous.