Andrew martin wikipedia
Andrew Martin (novelist)
British writer (born 1962)
Andrew Martin (born 6 July 1962) is an English novelist, rail historian, documentary maker, journalist and musician.
Martin was brought up in Yorkshire, studied at Merton College, Oxford, and qualified as a barrister.[1] He has since worked as a freelance journalist for a number of publications while writing novels, starting with Bilton, a comic novel about journalists, and The Bobby Dazzlers, a comic novel set in the North of England, for which he was named Spectator Young Writer of the Year.
The Guardian claimed Bilton and The Bobby Dazzlers "rank high in the lists of the best comic novels published in the past 10 years".[2]
His series of detective novels about Jim Stringer, a railwayman reassigned to the North Eastern Railway police in Edwardian England, includes The Necropolis Railway (set on the real London Necropolis Railway), The Blackpool Highflyer, The Lost Luggage Porter, Official website.