Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

From the Big Smoke to the Big Choke

The sour yellow miasma forever (wrongly) associated with Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper had been poisoning the capital for centuries, according to Christine Corton’s London Fog

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  • London Fog: The Biography

    Christine L. Corton

    Harvard, pp. 408

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