article_snippet.sent: — the ‘damp-looking dirty blackness’ of the East End; the ‘manifold ruffianism’ of the Cockneys; the pubs, street markets, theatres and music halls, with theatres and music halls ‘variety acts, dioramas and Italian operettas’.
article_snippet.sent: In addition to the gaudiness, the city was a place with dark staircases, gaslight, rain and spooky cobbled alleys: the ideal setting for murder.
article_snippet.sent: ‘The use of light was light music, rising in intensity, in the process creating a unique rhythm of meaning’.
article_snippet.sent: he skill was to merge larger-than-life melodramas — bombs, assassins, enemy agents
article_snippet.sent: He’d done more than anyone since Edgar Allan Poe to make our flesh creep.