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1. London Below is a very dangerous place for travellers, and the only Angel there is insane and locked away to save the world from his evil plans. In which book do we meet the murderous Angel Islington?
2. James Asher is a Victorian academic and ex-spy who is accosted one night during his train journey home, and enlisted to track down whoever (or whatever) is systematically murdering the Vampire community of London one by one. With the life of his beloved wife at stake, he is compelled to track down the killer on behalf of the surviving Vampires. Who wrote about James?
3. In this twisted reality that is the dark heart of London, it is always 3am, and visitors can buy and sell anything at all, if they only have the means. Take a stroll along the Street of the Gods, or read today's "Unnatural Inquirer", but stay out of the way of Walker...
Where are we?
4. Peter Grant is just an ordinary constable with the Metropolitan Police in London until one night when he takes a witness statement from a ghost. Soon apprenticed to the last Police Wizard, he quickly discovers there is a lot more to his beloved City than meets the ordinary eyes. Who writes the books about Peter and his superior Thomas Nightingale?
5. When all the statues and gargoyles of London come to life, and nobody can see them but him, George knows something very strange is happening. This odd sequence of events, written about by Charlie Fletcher, begins during a school trip; where to?
6. In this book by Esther Friesner, Queen Victoria is on the throne of Britain and in the prime of her life. Bran's Wall protects the country from the outside world, and to mention Bessemer the Heretic is to invite swift approbation. Once a year, the Queen must produce the magical artifact that is the seat of her power, but it has been stolen. What is this artifact, which must be found in time or the country will fall?
7. In "Vanished", Harper Blaine is blackmailed into going to London by the Master Vampire of her home city, Seattle. As well as a nest of Vampires in Clerkenwell, she meets an ancient Egyptian Goddess, guarding the entrance to which building?
8. In the "Mortal Engines" series by Philip Reeve (published in the USA as "Hungry City Chronicles") almost all the residents of the post-apocalyptic, mobile London, are divided into membership of four main Guilds. Which of these is NOT one of those Guilds?
9. The beginning of the end of the world for Jack Churchill comes one morning when he is walking home alongside the Thames. He hears a cry for help and witnesses a man being brutally killed by a strange giant, under the Albert Bridge. The only other witness is a passing lawyer; what is her name?
10. The UK television show "Ashes to Ashes" was not exactly a vision of a London that never was, but featured an almost alien London of the 1980s, when policewoman Alex Drake woke up there/then after being shot in 2008. Which character from "Ashes to Ashes" is credited with writing the spin-off book "The Future of Modern Policing"?
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