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The perfect quirky nostalgic crime read – a tale of steam trains, giant squid, missing screenplays, missing mothers and a quest for the truth, from the inimitable Malcolm Pryce
It’s 1948 and the British railways have been nationalised, bringing to an end Jack Wenlock’s days as a Railway Gosling; the elite team of train detectives. But worse still, the secrets he uncovered in his final case have put him in the crosshairs of clandestine organisation Room 42…
Jack was raised in an orphanage, never knowing his mother, but when a letter arrives revealing that she may have survived a shipwreck off the coast of Java and still be alive, Jack seizes the opportunity to track down his only remaining family member. Penniless, in fear for his life and determined to learn the truth about his mother, Jack and his new wife, Jenny, board a boat heading East.
Their quest will bring them face to face with Hollywood movie producers, gentlemen swindlers, mysterious men with burned faces… and members of Room 42. Jack and Jenny must together outwit this shady bunch – or risk losing his mother for ever.
