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Ian Sansom. Essex Poison
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Dedication
Epigraph
CHAPTER 1. LONDON, UNDERGROUND
CHAPTER 2. IN THE OVEN
CHAPTER 3. THE RENDEZVOUS
CHAPTER 4. THE MUSIC WRITERS’ MUTUAL PUBLISHING CO
CHAPTER 5. A TOPOGRAPHICAL CREMESCHNITTE
CHAPTER 6. THE BOULEVARDS OF BECONTREE
CHAPTER 7. THIS IS ENGLAND
CHAPTER 8. THE DAGENHAM GIRL PIPERS
CHAPTER 9. THE ROLE OF PAGEANTRY
CHAPTER 10. THE OYSTER’S LONELY SUBTERRAQUEOUS SIGH
CHAPTER 11. THE AVIATRIX
CHAPTER 12. BLUEBEARD’S CASTLE
CHAPTER 13. A KIND OF KNOCKING
CHAPTER 14. A MECHANICAL APHRODISIAC
CHAPTER 15. WHAT HAVE THE ROMANS EVER DONE FOR US?
CHAPTER 16. FLITRATION & PURTEFICATION
CHAPTER 17. AN AVERAGE ESSEX AFFRAY
CHAPTER 18. A FEW DISCREET ENQUIRIES
CHAPTER 19. LOOSE SCREW
CHAPTER 20. THE ‘COTTAGING’ EXISTENCE
CHAPTER 21. PROOF! PROOF!
CHAPTER 22. KURSAAL
CHAPTER 23. UP AND DOWN AND ROUND AND ROUND
CHAPTER 24. OIL AND DIRT
CHAPTER 25. IN THE TRENCHES
CHAPTER 26. JUMBO
CHAPTER 27. PARADISE, NORFOLK
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WILLIAM MORRIS, A Dream of John Ball (1888)
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Gleason and MacDonald paused and turned me around just as we had reached the top of the stairs. I could see Delaney smiling, framed in the doorway like a painting of some all-powerful potentate: hand-grained features, black-enamelled hair, ivory teeth, the very image of the inscrutable and implacable.
‘I wonder,’ he said, ‘I’d be interested to know: have you perhaps heard rumours about my methods for calling in debts? In those very very rare cases where people are not able or unwilling to make their payments?’
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