The Moquette Mystery

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.