Eastern Counties Railway

Their source came from a little bookshop, Compass Books in Devon, which received an order earlier this summer for second-hand volumes.

on unusual topics such as the geology of Western Peru, Cornish pioneers in South Africa, the defunct Eastern Counties Railway, cheeses of the world.

Bookseller Lucy Hinkson was baffled.

Her investigations could have been the subject of a detective story, and maybe it will become turned into a film.