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Nothing spooky or supernatural, but a very personal gathering of gossip, letters, and fragments of biography of famous people who have lived in Piccadilly (in London, England) ... and of some of the buildings, now long gone.<br /><br /> "If any part of any city deserves a book to itself, it is Piccadilly. We shall stand before some house in the hours when the traffic is stilled, and I shall tell of its history, of the men and women who dwelt there, and talked and loved and gambled and lived and died. I shall follow the lines of my temperament and tastes rather than those of completeness and impartiality: it is likely that I shall be voluble about Byron and reticent about Macaulay." (From the preface)

...this volume seeks to acquaint the embalmer and funeral director with legal principles involved in his every-day business dealings, to the end that he may be Iess apt to infringe upon the legal rights of others and at the same time preserve his own rights. Many of the cases referred to in this book will suggest the thought that more than one funeral director has had occasion for repenting that knowledge of some fundamental rule of law did not come to him in season. A pint of foresight is worth more than a barrel of retrospection. - Summary by Arthur Street (Preface)

3Murders in Praed Street

By John Street

A series of murders occur in Praed Street of London and the eccentric scientist Dr Priestly sees the connection in them. Only to discover that he himself is next in the list! John Rhode was the pen name of Cecil Street.- Summary by Yoganandh T