It is the eve of the Great War, and Jim Stringer, railway detective, is uneasy about his next assignment. Its not so much the prospect Scarborough in the gloomy off-season that bothers him, or even the fact that the last railwayman to stay in the house has disappeared without trace. Paperback , 314 pages Published March 1st 2010 by Faber & Faber (first published January 1st 2009)