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HOOK, LINE AND SINKER
Twenty more Tales of Peril and Predicament. Most start from a historic incident but add a fresh explanation of one unusual feature or another. * What might war-poet Wilfred Owen have written in his final letter home in 1918 to his peace-time Vicar? And what was the impact a hundred years later? * What might William Shakespeare have added to the communications between London and Edinburgh as Queen Elizabeth's reign ended? Especially given his kinship as a writer with James 6th; also that James was wary of coming to the land where his mother had been executed? * What did a young Charles Dickens make of the fire in the Houses of Parliament in 1834? * What might young Agatha Christie have made of suffragette martyr Emily Davison? * What would Dorothy Sayers make of the disappearance of Agatha Christie? * How did the first-ever flight happen in North Yorkshire? * What did journalist Robbie Glendenning make of a window cleaner who'd just seen a murder? * How did George Gilbert take revenge after her late-night punting was sabotaged on the Upper Cam? |