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1960s: London in glorious technicolour…
Bad Penny Blues
What you need to know before your trail
Police Constable Pete Bradley has one year in the force and dreams of moving up the ladder. He’s assigned as an aid to CID and working a routine nightshift with his partner when they stumble across a young woman’s body. She was working as a prostitute when she was strangled, her body dumped by a riverbank. His search for her killer brings him deep into Soho’s underbelly.
Meanwhile Stella, a young fashion designer with a promising career ahead of her, is woken by terrifying nightmares that echo the last hours of the dead women.
Travel Guide
London
Cathi Unsworth used to work for the music magazine The Melody Maker and it shows. This is a London deeply infused with the music of the day, the jazz and blues of Soho and the music of the clubs. London pours and streams out of every page
From the Ladbroke Grove bedsits to the Camden pubs to the more upmarket Notting Hill area to the seedy side of Soho….welcome to Unsworth’s LondonPut your punk hair in a pin, pick up this novel. stick on the record and enter the Unsworth underbelly of the city
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A) London - Soho - Ronnie Scott's
B) London - Soho - Wardour Street
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: Bad Penny Blues
Author/Guide Cathi Unsworth Destination: London Departure Time: 1960s
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