Being a seasoned Londoner, Martin gave the body the ‘London once-over’ – a quick glance to determine whether this was a drunk, a crazy or a human being in distress. The fact that it was entirely possi...
Before London swallowed it whole, Camden Town was the fork in the road best known for a coaching inn called the Mother Red Cap. It served as a last-chance stop for beer, highway robbery and gonorrhoea...
Back at the start of World War Two the authorities forbade the use of the Underground as an air raid shelter. Instead Londoners were supposed to rely on hastily built neighborhood shelters or on the f...
As property prices started rising, developers snatched up bomb sites and derelict buildings and erected the shapeless concrete lumps that have made the ’70s the shining beacon of architectural splendo...
Archway is where the post-war dream of the urban motorway died in the teeth of local opposition and the inability of the designers to answer basic traffic management questions.
Good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport - like base-jumping or crocodile-wrestling.
— Да, этого человека явно обучал профессионал, — нахмурился Найтингейл. — Вы себе представляете, сколько лет нужно тренироваться, чтобы достичь такого уровня? Какая нужна целеустремленность, какая тре...
Most people don’t want to fight, especially when evenly matched. A mob will tear an individual to pieces and a man with a gun and a noble cause is happy to kill ever so many women and children, but ri...
Zach Palmer, who was half human and half—we weren’t really sure what, including the possibility that the other half might be human as well.
You shouldn’t make jokes about these things, she said. Science doesn’t have all the answers, you know. It’s got all the best questions, though,
You don’t get to be a senior investigating officer unless you have a degree in scepticism, an MA in distrust and your CV lists suspicious bastard under your hobbies.
When you arrive unexpectedly at someone’s house you go in through the front door, often after making sure you’ve got a couple of mates waiting round the back. For a business, especially the kind that...
When it’s still—when it’s the cellar of a house, or a ring of mushrooms in a forest or a gun emplacement outside Offenburg—it’s called one of two things. If it remains static and unchanging then we ca...
When it was my turn and I stood up and called for life, liberty and peace and managed to sit down before I added a hard-boiled egg to the list.
Well, our victim had a thirst for knowledge, said Stephanopoulos. He was a student at St. Martins College.
To them, fae basically meant anyone who was vaguely magical who hadn’t gone to the right school, with the High Fae being the creatures referenced in medieval literature who dwelled in their own castle...
There's more to life than just London, said Nightingale.People keep saying that, I said. But I've never actually seen any proof.
The railway hit Harrow on the Hill in 1880 and it’s been downhill ever since, culminating in one of those formless red brick shopping centres which artfully combines a complete lack of aesthetic quali...
The principal advantages of living in your station’s section house is that it is cheap, close to work and it’s not your parents’ flat. The disadvantages are that you’re sharing your accommodation with...
The media response to unusual weather is as ritualized and predictable as the stages of grief. First comes denial: I can't believe there's so much snow. Then anger: Why can't I drive my car, why are t...