The Inspector Vignoles Mysteries

DI Charles Vignoles and his trusty sidekick DS John Trinder of the LNER Detective Department, based in Leicester Central railway station, have now solved five compelling cases... but there is always another mystery to solve! 

 

Trainspotting with the Detectives

 

Set on the former Great Central Railway 'London Extension' between Marylebone and Nottingham Victoria, their first adventure was recounted in Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, in the spring of 1946, and their newest (and strangest) mystery takes place in 1950.

 

Each book moves their lives on a year, with changing fashions, music and events always in the background, including the profound change of the Nationalisation if the railways in January 1948. You will meet many characters along the way, including the stuffy Chief Inspector Badger who is more often than not the bane of Vignoles's life, the delightful Mrs Anna Vignoles and Anna McIntyre, and the two young locomotive cleaners at Woodford Halse engine shed, Eddie and Simon, who both have the knack of getting into sticky situations...

 

These books are self-published and funded with production values to the highest standards;printed on high-grade paper that won't go brown in a matter of weeks, and will only ever be available as a proper, real book! (Sorry, no Kindles here.) Written in my spare time after a full time job, the inspirational covers are created by my friend Bill Citrine, and the text knocked into shape and typeset by Helena of the Hastings Press, who believes in placing self-publishing on a comparable level with mainstream publishing. In other words, a team of just three.  I hope you will find them good, entertaining examples of British detective crime fiction, with lashings of steam and smoke, the grimy reality of the post-war railway, and packed with nostalgic glimpses of a Britain now long past...

 

These self-published and self-funded books are now selling fast! Over 12,000 copies now shipped out!

 

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