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Just finished London Under by Peter Ackroyd - a short, superficial, but sweeping look at what lies under the streets of London - sewers, buried rivers, the Underground, pipes, bomb shelters, etc. Ackroyd is quite widely knowledgeable of London geography and history - this book is a companion to his London: The Biography and Thames: The Biography, among others. If you're a fan of Christopher Fowler's Peculiar Crimes Unit mystery series, reading Ackroyd's books will supplement/verify much of the arcana that Arthur Bryant keeps inflicting on his helpless partners.
P.S. And I learned the origin of the term "fornicate." Can't wait to drop that tid-bit on unsuspecting folk.
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