London After Dark
NEW––BroDart Dust Jacket Cover
Author: Robert Fabian
©1954 British Book Centre, Inc.
First Edition
British Book Centre, Inc.

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CAB Comment––This 1954 edition of “London After Dark” is a treat for any noir fan who wants a taste of true crime in London, where Sherlock-Holmsian mystery, cold nights, thick fog, brutal vice, and bloody murder go hand-in-hand.

About Robert Fabian (from Wikipedia):
Author Robert Honey Fabian (31 January 1901 – 14 June 1978) was an English police officer, who rose to the rank of Detective Superintendent in the Metropolitan Police.  After retirement from the force in 1949, he worked as crime writer.  His work was dramatised in the BBC drama series, 1954-56, Fabian of the Yard, based on his book of the same name (in reference to New Scotland Yard). Each episode ended with an epilogue in which Fabian described the real-life case on which the preceding story had been based.  It is written that Fabian took up gardening after his retirement from the Metropolitan Police.  He subsequently wrote a somewhat salacious but revelatory account of Soho's vice trade in London After Dark

“London After Dark”––Kirkus Reviews:
“Addenda to his earlier Fabian Of The Yard fills in the picture of crime in England and works its way from general exposition on various types of illegalities to specific cases. From night haunts, guarding royalty, gambling, dope, sex, perverts, unlawful pictures and satanic practices, he goes on to the crooks themselves, the informers, the rackets, and winds up with 14 examples of the painstaking police activities that untangled varying iniquities. This dossier has a very moral tone to its yarning, and its expertising, by an ex-superintendent of the Yard, offers solid, dependable -- and interesting material for the true crime fancier.”

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