Blogs in January 1970

Something from Tiffany’s 1st January 1970

Doesn’t every girl dream of getting . . . something from Tiffany’s? It’s Christmas Eve. And on 5th Avenue in New York City, two very different men are shopping for gifts for the women they love. Gary is buying...

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The Diary of Murder 1st January 1970

Jacob Jones is a respectable clerk at the Crystal Palace Company, with a pretty young bride and a delightful new home in Islington. When his wife is murdered, everything points to his guilt, even a handwritten confession. But the...

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The Tunnel Rats 1st January 1970

Two murders, thousands of miles apart: one in London, one in Bangkok. The bodies brutally mutilated: an ace of spades impaled upon their chests. In Washington, a US senator receives photographs of the corpses. And realises that his past...

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Shakespeare’s Local 1st January 1970

Welcome to the George Inn near London Bridge: a cosy, wood-pannelled, galleried coaching house a few minutes’ walk from the Thames. Grab yourself a pint, listen to the chatter of the locals and consider this: who else has made...

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Where Have You Been? 1st January 1970

Ranging from urgently contemporary London and Dublin to New York’s Lower East Side in the nineteenth century, from dark comedy to poignancy, from the wryly provocative to the quietly beautiful, these stories offer a gathering of dreamers and lost...

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