Lord Foxbridge Butts In (38 page)

March Motors Ltd. is a disguise for the actual Car Mart Ltd., which once occupied 46-50 Park Lane...a building, oddly enough, currently occupied by another branch of Barclays Bank. Twister's address at 12B Craven Street doesn't exist, though 12 Craven Street does... it's a single quite attractive house with no secondary entrances (I inserted the B to suggest 221B Baker Street, just as I named Twister’s country seat ‘Holmesham Manor’).

Everyplace else mentioned in the stories are real places, many of which are still standing, their businesses still operational.

The lion’s share of the information on London locations was found at
British History Onlin
e’s scanned editions of
A Survey of London
, forty-seven volumes detailing the architectural, social, and economic history of London’s boroughs and parishes, street by street. The volumes concerning the parishes of St. James and St. Margaret in Westminster, St. Anne’s Soho, and the former Grosvenor estate in Mayfair, contain so many gorgeous floor plans and architectural details, as well as the histories of the areas I’m writing about, that I don’t think I could have written this book without it.

My other main source, of course, was Google, through which I found a great many secondary sources and images and maps online, including but by no means limited to
The West End at War
, a fascinating read, and
Jazz Age Club
, which is devoted to the nightlife of the 20s and has detailed descriptions of famous places in London; I have had a great deal of recourse to Wikipedia, as well.