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allows visitors to search an array of books from the late Victorian era to find descriptions of particular streets and buildings, a process that otherwise would take days if not weeks. For example, one can type New Oxford Street into the site’s search engine and learn all about the sordid roots of the neighborhood. The Charles Booth Online Archive of the London School of Economics presents images of the actual notebooks kept by Booth and some of his investigators, including pages that describe his walks through Hilldrop Crescent.

Regrettably, when the time came to write the final drafts of this book, I found myself forced by the demands of narrative coherence and pace to eliminate a number of compelling but useless pieces of information. Anyone obsessive enough to read the following footnotes will encounter some of these orphans, lodged here for no better reason than that I could not bear to expel them.

I do not cite a source for every fact in the book, only material that for one reason or another begs attribution, typically direct quotations and items that other authors unearthed first. And I must again remind readers: Anything between quotation marks is from a written document. All dialogue that appears in this book is taken verbatim from the sources in which it initially appeared.

ARCHIVES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

ARCHIVES

Archives Canada. Ottawa.

Beaton Institute. Breton University, Nova Scotia.

Bolles, Edwin C. The Edwin C. Bolles Collection on the History of London. Tufts University. Online Archive. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cache/ perscoll_Bolles.htm

Booth, Charles. Charles Booth Online Archive. London School of Economics. http://www.booth.lse.ac.uk/

Cape Cod National Seashore. Eastham, Mass.

Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEE). London.

Kemp Diary. Marconi Archive. Bodleian Library. Oxford.

MarconiCalling. Marconi Online Archive. http://www.MarconiCalling.com

National Archives (NA), Britain. Kew, England:

Central Criminal Court/Old Bailey (CRIM)

Department of Public Prosecution (DPP)

Treasury (T)

Home Office (HO)

Metropolitan Police (MEPO)

Prison Commission (PCOM)

University College of London (UCL), Special Collections:

Fleming Collection

Lodge Collection

Wellfleet Historical Society, Wellfleet, Mass.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

A-Z London (edition 5A). Geographer’s A-Z Map Co., 2002.

Aitken, Hugh G. J. Syntony and Spark—The Origins of Radio. John Wiley, 1976.

Alverstone, Viscount. Recollections of Bar and Bench. Longmans, Green, 1915.

Bacon’s Up to Date Map of London 1902. Old House Books, undated.

Baedeker, Karl. London and its Environs, 1900. Old House Books, 2002 (1900).

Baker, E. C. Sir William Preece. Hutchinson, 1976.

Baker, W. J. A History of the Marconi Company. Methuen, 1970.

Barrie, J. M. Peter Pan and Other Plays. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1930.

Bartram, Graeme. “Wireless and the Art of Magic, Part I.” Bulletin of the British Vintage Wireless Society 28, no. 4 (Winter 2003), pp. 48–55.

———. “Wireless and the Art of Magic, Part II.” Bulletin of the British Vintage Wireless Society 29, no. 1 (Spring, 2004), pp. 42–45.

Bayless, Raymond. Voices from Beyond. University Books, 1976.

Biel, Steven. Down with the Old Canoe. W. W. Norton, 1996.

Birkenhead, Lord (F. E. Smith). Famous Trials of History. George H. Doran, 1926.

Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen. My Diaries. Alfred A. Knopf, 1922.

Bodanis, David. Electric Universe. Crown, 2005.

Booth, Martin. The Doctor, the Detective and Arthur Conan Doyle. Hodder & Stoughton, 1997.

Bordeau, Sanford. Volts to Hertz. Burgess, 1982.

Braga, Gioia Marconi. A Biography of Guglielmo Marconi. Marconi Foundation. Web: MarconiFoundation.Org

Browne, Douglas G. The Rise of Scotland Yard. George G. Harrap, 1956.

———. Sir Travers Humphreys. George G. Harrap, 1960.

Browne, Douglas G., and E. V. Tullett. The Scalpel of Scotland Yard. E. P. Dutton, 1952.

Brownlow, Arthur H., ed. Cape Cod Environmental Atlas. Boston University, 1979.

Bryant, John H. Heinrich Hertz: The Beginning of Microwaves. Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, 1988.

Bussey,