4.25 stars. An excellent addition to the station series set during WW2. I was thinking this would be slightly higher rating for a long time, but the second death (of the cadet) kind of petered out a bit, and Coburg gave Ted a hard time for not being at work at one point, when he himself had done virtually the same thing only the day before, leaving Ted to finish up and do the paperwork…! Unfair, Edgar, unfair…

I received a free ARC copy of this via NetGalley and the publishers in return for an unbiased review.

I love Jim Eldrige's series as the stories are always entertaining, solid, and informative. It's like visiting a different station or museum any time and travelling in time.
This is a bit slower than other but I throughly enoyed and was gald to catch up with the characters.
The mystery is teisty and i liked the solution.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher for this ARC, all opinions are mine

I really enjoyed this thriller that opens with a bang with the Cafe de Paris bombing in Piccadilly to the body dumped in the abandoned Lords Station.. It was a good story and I loved it. I liked seeing the characters and how their lives are getting on with the war being always in the background.. it was good mystery and it ended satisfactory.

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Jim Eldridge’s Murder at Lord’s Station is the third in his series of WWII mysteries set in disused Underground stations during the Blitz, following on from Aldwych and Down Street. It features his series detective, Edgar Saxe-Coburg, together with his sergeant, Ted Lampson; and his wife, singer Rosa Weeks. I was delighted that Edgar’s brother, Magnus, the Earl of Dawlish; and his factotum, Malcolm, are essential to the plot, too.

As you might expect with Lord’s in the title, cricket is a major theme in the novel. Not so much match action, so don’t worry if you’re not keen on the game or don’t know the rules, but the nature of cricket as a sport, with teams, players and betting. Chapter One starts with a dead cricketer outside the disused Lord’s Underground Station and the body count has increased by the end of the book.

One thing I love about Eldridge’s books is that the sense of jeopardy is real: the reader genuinely wonders whether one of the main characters will be killed before the book ends. Although I anticipated one plot twist a few pages in advance, I didn’t expect another one and I had to read the sentence where it happened three times for it to sink in. Wow, Eldridge is a really good writer! I also loved the gentle way that Eldridge handles a couple of plot strands: someone may have committed an understandable crime, but their subsequent fragility deserves compassion – and that’s what they get here.

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Chief Inspector Coburg returns in Murder at Lord’s Station which is another highly enjoyable historically crime novel from Jim Eldridge..

This time around Coburg and his assistant Lampson are called to investigate the murder of a person found in a disused station.

The story moves along at a good pace and keeps the pages turning.

A definite recommendation.