MawB I really like Marsali Taylor's books, not least because the "love interest" develops so slowly (over at least four books!) So many detective stories have a "wham bam, thank you ma'am" encounter between a (male) detective and a different woman in each book of a series.
What were the first ever records that you bought and when?
To think that London, or anywhere else for that matter, does not belong to any one demographic