Syntagma Media is proud to announce the latest of our new book serializations, Steve Newman’s Victorian detective novel, The Crime of the Crimea, due for publication next September.

We begin, however, with a seasonal short story specially written for Syntagma readers, The Great Christmas Train Robbery.

Read it here.

The Great Christmas Train Robbery — Synopsis

Detective Inspector Herbert Merriman Swann hated falling asleep on trains. He also hated waking up on trains that were empty and abandoned in the middle of a snow storm late on Christmas Eve.

Something was wrong, badly wrong.

Can Detective Sergeant John Parker come to his boss’s rescue in time, and stop a heinous crime from taking place? …

The serialization of the novel will begin shortly after Christmas.