Bleeding Heart Square | 
pickI thought this was very good. Setting, unsettling atmosphere and characters are all very well drawn. Clever to use manipulation as a theme of subplots as well as main. Early 1930s UK pretty grim. Marcus is probably too much a stereotype (& slug bit‘s foul) and the action-adventure bits don‘t necessarily sit well with the otherwise subtle approach, but they‘re quibbles. I didn‘t get whodunnit, or indeed the other big mystery til it became obvious.
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