WHERE LONDON BOOKS TAKE PLACE. Henry Nejako sent me this link, which leads to a Google-based map showing where in London various books are set. There is a variety of books located on the map—books about Sherlock Holmes, Nell Gwyn and Madame Tussaud; histories of London concert life and the underground; mysteries, thrillers; books by Nick Hornby, THE JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR……
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I remember reading a story about a tour guide in Oxford who was taking around two jaded Americans who really didn’t seem to care about anything she said. Finally, as a throw-away, she mentioned, “And this is where Peter Wimsey kissed Harriet Vane in a punt.” They got very excited and made her go all over Oxford again, this time using “Gaudy Night” as the theme. She thought, and wrote, something to this effect: they were more excited about fictional characters and things that had never occurred than all the history I’d been telling them. Ah, the power of the imagination. You tell me Peter and Harriet aren’t real!