The Wire That Held the City

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The fog came up from the Thames like a living thing on the morning of November the third, 1888. It rolled through the alleys of Wapping and Spitalfields, thick as broth, yellow with coal smoke and the memory of the Great Miasma. Thomas Ashworth waded into the river anyway, his waders filled with cold water, his hands numb inside leather gloves that had seen better winters. He was looking for...

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