The Moquette Mystery

A crime thriller set just before the Second World War in which the only clue to solving a murder is a scrap of material that turns out to be a hitherto unknown design of railway moquette. By the author of the popular Jim Stringer series of railway crime novels, and the bestselling guide to London Transport moquette patterns, Seats of London.

A young Northern woman called May is working inthe fabrics department of a grand London department store when a detectivecomes in, clutching a scrap of fabric. Any idea what this is . ? May’ssuperiors aren’t interested, so she takes the piece of oddly carpet-like cloth– patterned in pretty yellows, purples and blues – and gets rid of the officerby offering to find out.

It turns out to be a piece of railway moquette –but from which line, since no-one appears to have seen this striking pattern before - and how does it solve a murder? May’s investigations takeher out into Metroland, up to the textile mills of Halifax, and finally to the Isleof Wight. Can this plucky young woman solve the Moquette Mystery?

Seats of London – a left-field guide to the colourful array of patterns adorningLondon’s Tube train, bus and train seats since the Thirties – has become an unlikely bestseller, and is already in its sixth printing. The Moquette Mystery is a kind of sequel , as well as a quirky and unique crime novel in its own right.

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