The Blackpool Highflyer.(Brief article)(Book review)

The Blackpool Highflyer ANDREW MARTIN. Harcourt, $14 paper (360p) ISBN 978-0-15-603069-4

Set in 1905, Martin's second Jim Stringer mystery (after 2004's The Necropolis Railway) starts slowly but builds a head of steam like the monster locomotive Jim stokes for "Lanky," the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. A passenger dies when a huge grindstone on the tracks derails a train carrying the owner of Hind's Mill on an excursion to seaside Blackpool. Jim begins to suspect class warfare when a young socialist distributes tracts in Jim's …