Books CONTINUE to lead to other books!! My reading of Peter Ackroyd’s “London Under” was inspired by Nicholas Royle’s “Finders, Keepers“; and there’s a bit of a story attached to today’s book! In Ackroyd’s chapters about the London Underground system, he discussed a number of murder mysteries set there and one of these was a story by Baroness Orczy – “The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway”. Now, I enjoyed Orczy’s ‘Lady Molly‘ stories so I was keen to read this one. A bit of digging revealed it had been included in an anthology from the early 1970s. “The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes“, and I *knew* that I had owned a copy at one point. The question, as always, was is it still in the house? And if so, where??? I felt I had seen it relatively recently, and so that limited the options. I rooted around in one of the TBR rooms, and ended up having a major reshuffle which incidentally caused me to revise the immediate pile of potential reads. Eventually I started to dig around in the…
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