Why a Booktrail?
1893: Wigan is in the grip of a devastating national miners’ strike and a harsh winter.
Striking Murder
What you need to know before your trail
Arthur Morris, a wealthy colliery owner whose intransigence on miners’ pay is the main cause of the strike, is found brutally murdered in Scholes, a rough working-class district where he is universally hated and blamed for the grinding hardship the strike is causing. Detective Sergeant Brennan is tasked with finding the murderer and when a mysterious stranger is found bludgeoned to death, Brennan starts to unravel a twisted thread of interwoven clues that will lead to the murderer.
Locations
Reset- England - Manchester - Wigan
- A: Wigan Train Station
- B: Scholes
- C: Wigan police station
- D: Museum of Wigan Life
Travel Guide
Wigan
Set in the Mining Community in Wigan – The Wigan Museum of Life
“A subsequent gloom had settled on the town and its inhabitants like a pall, soup kitchens a common feature now of life in the borough. The sprawling area of Scholes on the edge of town was home to many colliers who would have welcomed the opportunity to impress upon Arthur Morris – literarily – how they felt with the help of their size ten clogs. It was chiefly his intransigence that had brought about the strike in the first place – as the owner of the largest collieries in the whole of Lancashire, he was the most vociferous and influential supporter of the coal owners’ insistence in imposing a national twenty five percent reduction in the miner’s wages in an attempt to reduce costs. Now the spectre of starvation haunted almost every home in the borough and throughout the coalfields of the North and Midlands”
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B) Wigan - Scholes
B) Wigan - Scholes
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Striking Murder
Destination: Wigan Author/Guide: A J Wright Departure Time: 1893
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