The River Thames has always had a dark side. Its fast-flowing, tidal waters have long attracted those with something to hide.

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Books mentioned in order: —Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers —Footsteps at the Lock by Ronald Knox —”Dark Waters” by Freeman Wills Crofts is collected in Bodies from the Library —Sunset Over Soho by Gladys Mitchell —A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey

Further Thames reading: —Original Sin by P.D. James —Strange Tide by Christopher Fowler —Trouble on the Thames by Victor Bridges

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