*Phoenix, May 6, 1946* At close to midnight in the Union Station baggage room, the air is hot, still, and thick. The eleven forty-five Golden State Limited to Los Angeles is approaching rapidly when the baggage handler, Alfred Brody, notices a stray hound dog sniffing around one of the steamer trun
Murder at Aldwych Station
โ Scribed by Jim Eldridge
- Book ID
- 111229581
- Publisher
- Allison & Busby
- Year
- 2022
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 152 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780749028381
- ASIN
- B0B3SB14F1
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โฆ Synopsis
December 1940. With the Luftwaffe pounding the city nightly, Londoners seek refuge in underground stations. Aldwych has been taken out of service to provide shelter for the British Museum's priceless Elgin Marbles, as well as civilians escaping the bombing. When the body of a young man is discovered on the tracks, wearing evening dress but barefoot, Detective Chief Inspector Coburg and Sergeant Lampson are on the case.
Before long, more bodies are discovered, and Coburg's wife Rosa becomes a target for the
brutal killer. Caught up in a world of underground jazz clubs, abandoned tube stations and looters, Coburg and Lampson must track down the ruthless murderer before it's too late ...
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