This is a work in progress as I read through these delightful books.

Book 1: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (2009)

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• William King, The Art of Cookery, 1708
• Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, 1764
  • Project Gutenberg
• The British Philatelist, 1908—1954
• The War Illustrated
• Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
• Antoine Lavoisier’s Elements of Chemistry
• Oxford English Dictionary: entry for vale
• Country Life magazine
• Francis Grose, 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
  • other works by Francis Grose, including
  • A provincial glossary; with a collection of local proverbs, and popular superstitions (1811)

Book 2: The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag (2010)

Book 3: A Red Herring Without Mustard (2011)

Book 4: I Am Half-Sick of Shadows (2011)

Book 5: Speaking from Among the Bones (2013)

Book 6: The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (2014)