Murder at Lords Station: The gripping wartime mystery series

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March, 1941. World War Two is well underway and the Blitz is taking its toll on Central London with bombs raining down almost every night. Inspector Coburg and his trusted Sergeant Lampson are just recovering from the devastating bomb attack on the Cafe de Paris when they get a call asking them to go to the disused Lord's Underground station. Once there they are taken to see the body of a man on the former platform. He's been beaten to death by blows on the back of his head, by what Dr Welbourne believes to have been a cricket bat.
Could the dead man be associated with the British Empire XI who are playing against English cricket teams at the world-famous Lord's cricket ground Coburg and Lampson have a puzzling case to solve ...

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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. He lives in Kent with his wife.