'I know she's out there - beside the viaduct. Waiting...' The signalman looked anxious.
`She does that too - but always on the last train. Yes, the last train to Brackley Central.'
Richard Irons, Magdalen College School's new mathematics master, awakens when a strange woman creeps into his compartment with a sad tale to tell - and a deadly favour to ask. But as the train reaches Brackley Central she slips through his arms like a phantom.
Detective Inspector Vignoles will never have a more curious and baffling case as he searches for a young woman apparently back from the dead, a dangerous dog on the prowl - and for the Cobra's Eye, a diamond that destroys the lives of all who touch it...
'It's a cracking good yarn. Recommended'
Steam Railway April 2012
This is the fifth book in the hugely successful Inspector Vignoles Mysteries series that currently numbers 9 books. Will be enjoyed by all who love classic historical crime fiction; This series is along the lines of Foyle's War and centres around the former Great Central Railway running through the heart of England in the 1950's.
- ISBN10 1904109233
- ISBN13 9781904109235
- Publish Date 1 April 2012
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Hastings Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 376
- Language English