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Murder at Down Street Station: The thrilling wartime mystery series
By (Author) Jim Eldridge
Allison & Busby
Allison & Busby
23rd January 2024
19th October 2023
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.914
Paperback
384
Width 129mm, Height 198mm
Christmas, 1940. A temporary truce between the German and Allied forces is awelcome respite from the relentless air raids over London.Down Street underground station, in the heart of Mayfair, is now a secretretreat for Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his cabinet. In this supposedlysecure location, the body of a woman is found, stabbed in the heart.
Detective Chief Inspector Coburg and Sergeant Lampson are called toinvestigate. However, whispers of treason as well as the suspicion of insidiousRussian plots muddy the waters of the case, and personal resentments strikefar too close to home.
Everything is on the line for Coburg and Lampson as the body count steadilyrises.
Jim Eldridge was born in central London towards the end of World War II, andsurvived attacks by V2 rockets on the Kings Cross area where he lived. In 1971he sold his first sitcom to the BBC and had his first book commissioned. Sincethen he has had more than one hundred books published, with sales of overthree million copies.