Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Arrington

provided little relief to its suffering population and blocked international aid from entering the country

It is partially a prose nod to the comic world - the bombast

and speeches

From London Far: An Inspector Appleby Mystery (Book 5) Serial Killer True Accounts Fyodor DostoyevskyAs Meredith, an academic, stands in a Bloomsbury tobacconist waiting for his two ounces of tobacco, he murmurs a verse of 'London, a Poem' and is astounded when a trap door opens into the London Catacombs, bringing him face to face with the Horton Venus, by Titian. From then on he is trapped in a maze of the illicit art trade, in the company of the redoubtable Jane Halliwell.