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Acknowledgments.- Introduction: Impossible Geographies.- 1 Landmark London.- 'This is London.- The Bus, the Pub and the Fog Uncanny London: Undoing the City.- 2 Local London A Little London: Ealing Studios Horace Ové's London: Pressure South London: A Changing Grammar of the Local Other Local Londons.- 3 Going Up West Pleasant London: Spring in Park Lane West End Noir 1: Night and the City West End Noir 2: Mona Lisa The Global West End: The Film Star and the Refugee.- 4 The London Underground Mr Beck and Gert and Daisy.- The Strong Stories of the Underground The Tunnel Tigers and the Good Fairies of the Underground.- 5 The Gangster, the Ripper and the Housewife London Horror: Murderous Places East End Noir Performing the Old East End: The Krays Coda: 'Fashion Street.- 6 Thames TalesFrom the Pool of London to the 'Pont de la Tour The Spaces of Empire: Pool of London The Temporalities of The Long Good Friday The River of Dead People and the River of Ghosts Afterword: The Poignancy of Place Three Forms of Melancholy And a Chance Encounter.- Selected Bibliography.- Index.