"Who will help the widow's son?"

Yes, Moore says in 'Dance Of The Gull Catchers' that there's probably no truth in any of it.

There's a lot of nice Hawksmoor references though, even if it does owe a lot to Ackroyd and Sinclair (who makes it into Dance Of The Gull Catchers himself).

Indubidably classic. Should probably give it another read, actually.

Great comic - the Canary Wharf sequence!!! Wow.

The only bit I don't like at all is the OMG HITLERS PARENTS bit.

are you on crack? that's the best bit.

Whoa, I had no idea. [Click clickitty clicky] Okay, I've just ordered it from Amazon.

I think she is my grillfriend, perhaps, we do use the George Foreman a lot.

Madolan, that is, not Patricia Cornwall.

I like From Hell, but I liked it better when I read it in issues as it came out than when I sat down and reread it as a piece -- I don't know to what extent that might be just the rereading of it being less fun than the first reading, though. But it felt like it was because of not having to wait between issues.

And unlike other people here who think that "Gull, Ascending" was indulgent tripe, it was one of my favorite chapters and a great climax.

I'm reading the Dumas Club at the moment, basically because I wuvved the film. And I am thinking "what's all this shite about stupid Dumas novels? When are all the SATANISTS going to start appearing?"

I kind of see your point on this, BUT the East End is really old, and it is kind of where I'm from, and it is where I stay when I go to London, so basically I am always much more interested in the OMG occult secrets of East London being revealed than in the equivalents for Hampstead.

They made a film? That's by Arturo Perez-Reverte, right? I read one of his other ones about a fencing master (which Amazon tells me is called 'The Fencing Master'), it was like beach reading for grad students.

her single best argument (= only argt apart from "blimey sickert painted some creepy paintings") is
i. there are a bunch of letters and postcards received by scotland yard (which no one thinks are) from JtR
ii. sickert's dna (derived from descendents) is identical to the dna on some of these
iii. if by identical you mean "when we use a specific test which narrows it down to mere tens of thousands"

her better bet wd have been to argue - as she does, in fact - by artistic examination, that sickert may have written some of the bogus postcards: this is anyway a more interesting story

This alone makes me want to chop out Cornwell's womb and cook her heart in a kettle until the kettle melts.