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From Gin Craze To Twin Krays

Ian Thomson LONDON'S UNDERWORLD by Fergus Linnane Robson Books, £16.95, pp. 288, ISBN 186105548X 1 n this jolly history of London crime, Fergus Linnane fathoms the city's......

Blood And Sand

David Hughes......

Chopin's Funeral By Benita Eisler Little, Brown, £16.99,...

cence I wanted to be when I grew up was Chopin. His music seemed very close to sex and the misery of not having it. His etudes were a brown study, his very nocturnes suggested......