In London under the fog of war, a 10-year-old Jewish girl is murdered. The police have no clues and little interest, so crusader Asta Thundesley takes up the challenge, sifting through clues and gathering up suspects for a dinner party where... nothing is learned. Detective Turpin goes by the boo...
Fowlers End is in London's outer suburbia and is quite possibly one of the most hellish places imaginable (geographically in the Edmonton/Ponders End area): a steel tube factory, a glass factory, the smokiest railway terminal in London, and a hideous chemical plant. It is in Fowlers End that Sam...
He had intended to set up shop as a shoe repairer, but Millie drew the line at that. She had seen him at work once or twice, and hated the sight of his nails, black with cobbler’s wax, and the smell of leather and old boots. Working, he wore no coat; his shirt-sleeves were rolled up and his arms ...
Who dares to come, in filthy rags, into the presence of a tailor? First, Pym went to a barber’s shop—the dirtiest he could find, since he hated to be conspicuous. Then—ragged, but smelling of brilliantine—he bought a white shirt for seven-and-sixpence and a pair of green socks for eighteenpence: ...
said Cattle, “whenever people get round to talking about the way people die, and what people die for—in general, when people begin to talk about things like Bill Nelson’s death. Because there are times when there really does seem to be a Destiny that saves us like cards to be played at the end pa...
Every house in London, in those dark, exciting days, was being combed for salvage, particularly scrap metal and waste paper. Out of Mr Ainsworth’s office alone came more than three hundred pounds of paper that, on consideration, was condemned to pulp as not worth keeping. ...
Several weeks later a messenger from Jerusalem brought, among other documents, a bulky letter from my old friend. Generally, I enjoyed Afranius’s rare absences, for when he was away he would write to me, and his letters seldom failed to evoke all that was most agreeable in his pleasantly easy con...
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