Figg was the probably the first victim of Jack The Stripper – a serial killer who terrorised Notting Hill’s red-light district for six years, asphyxiating up to eight prostitutes and dumping six of them naked. Some had lost their teeth; a couple were covered in paint flecks; a few had their underwear stuffed down their throats; all were under 5ft 2in. Although, due to some odd quirk of history, he isn’t as notorious as his namesake, he does share the trait of never having been found.

Bad Penny Blues is concerned with power – it features a character based on notoriously bent copper Harold ‘Tanky’ Challenor. Equally disquietingly, it speculates on a tenuous link between the stripper murders and the Profumo affair; several of the girls were involved in vice rings frequented by Profumo; one of them, Hannah Tailford, was made to have sex with a man dressed as a gorilla at a high-society party.

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