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One of the Claridge's kitchen porters is found dead - strangled. He was a recent employee who claime..

17th May 1899. Queen Victoria lays the foundation stone on the site of a new museum being built in S..

Persimmon 'Simmy' Brown's wedding day to Christopher Henderson has arrived on a glorious summer's da..

It is the summer of 1934 when MI6 receives intelligence that two German scientists have made a break..

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Old spies grow ridiculous River. Old spies aren't much better than clowns. Or so David Cartwright us..