Night Train to Jamalpur

First edition, first impression with full number line. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners very slightly rubbed, very slight lean. not price clipped (£14.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 352pp. North East India, 1923. On the boiling Night Mail from Calcutta to Jamalpur, a man is shot dead in a first class compartment. Detective Inspector Jim Stringer was sleeping in the next compartment along. Was he the intended target? Jim should have known that his secondment to the East Indian Railway, with a roving brief to inspect security arrangements, would not be the working holiday he had hoped for. The country seethes with political and racial tension. Aside from the Jamalpur shooting, someone is placing venomous snakes, including giant king cobras, in the first class compartments of the railway. Jim also has worries on the home front, his daughter has formed a connection with a Maharajah's son, who may in turn have a connection to Jim's incredibly rude colleague, the bristling Major Fisher. Jim must do everything he can to keep his family safe from harm, as he unravels the intrigues that surround him. The ninth Jim Stringer mystery.…