Dark deeds on the district line.(A Metropolitan Murder)(Book Review)

Publication: Spectator

Publication Date: 24-APR-04

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A METROPOLITAN MURDER by Lee Jackson Heinemann, 12.99 [pounds sterling], pp. 320, ISBN 0434012297

In 1863, the London underworld was revolutionised--not the crime statistics, but the literal underworld, when the first underground railway opened, with trains running, unimaginably, beneath the surface of the earth. This was, as the Times had pointed out when plans were first mooted, as silly as thinking of machines that could fly through the air, or of battles that could be fought...

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