In 1947, two years after the end of World War 2 and the same year that Shamus Dust is set, Gallup polled the British Public and asked...

In 1947, when SHAMUS DUST is set, there were passages like these everywhere along the Thames waterfront, downstream from London’s Tower...

Whilom. Yes, that’s right. Whilom. Experts in archaic English can now sit back while the rest of us look it up. Context helps of course,...