It is partially a prose nod to the comic world - the bombast

provided little relief to its suffering population and blocked international aid from entering the country

Mark is lost in Dromenon

and is sure to delight the little princess in all of us

He doesn't even know he's a dinosaur

From London Far: An Inspector Appleby Mystery (Book 5) Serial Killer True Accounts It is partially a proseAs Meredith, an academic, stands in a Bloomsbury tobacconist waiting for his two ounces of tobacco, he murmurs a verse of 'London, a Poem' and is astounded when a trap door opens into the London Catacombs, bringing him face to face with the Horton Venus, by Titian. From then on he is trapped in a maze of the illicit art trade, in the company of the redoubtable Jane Halliwell.