The Lost Luggage Porter
By (Author) Andrew Martin
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
1st July 2007
3rd May 2007
Main
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.914
Paperback
336
Width 128mm, Height 198mm, Spine 22mm
263g
York, Winter, 1906 - two brothers have been shot to death. Meanwhile, Jim Stringer meets the Lost Luggage Porter, humblest among the employees of the North Eastern Railway company. He tells Jim a tale which leads him to the roughest part of town, a place where the police constables always walk in twos. Jim is off on the trail of pickpockets, 'station loungers' and other small fry of the York underworld.
But then in a tiny, one-room pub with a badly smoking fire he enters the orbit of a dangerous, disturbed villian who is playing for much higher stakes .
Andrew Martin, a former Spectator Young Writer of the Year, grew up in Yorkshire. He has written for the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, the Independent on Sunday and Granta, among many other publications, and his weekly column appears in the New Statesman.