Mayhem on the Margate

<p><strong>From the author of the ever-popular Steaming Into books: the first in a series of short crime fiction novels set aboard the steam railways.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>In wartime Birkenhead tragedy strikes when a gang of mischievous children ignore their parents' warnings and play amid the bombsites. It soon becomes clear that the local hospital has been the victim of some black-market activity and the substandard medicine fails to do its job. A boy who should have been saved has lost his life.</p><p><br></p><p>Retired Detective Inspector Roger Wolseley has seen enough greedy chancers making capital from the war and makes it his mission in retirement to hunt down the criminal behind the knock-off drugs. He soon has his man and is hot on his tail heading for the South Coast on the Margate Express.</p><p><br></p><p>A young family become unintentionally entangled in Wolseley's escapades and fans of Michael Clutterbuck's previous books will be delighted to find Driver George Denton and Fireman Lance Hargreaves also have a role to play.</p><p><br></p>