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By Ed Glinert

The streets of London resonate with mystery tales, from East finish lore to chilly battle espionage, from stories of riots, rakes, anarchy and grisly murders, to Rolling Stones gigs, gangland consuming dens, Orwell's Fitzrovia and Lenin's haunts. Ed Glinert has walked the size and breadth of town to solve its mysteries, traveling via time from the Romans' London wall to the hot Olympic web site at Stratford. this can be London as you might have by no means visible it before.

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