Tony Walker

Allen knows very well that this is the scapula.

not the scalpel or the clavicle.

Anyway, race gangs, again, and this is nothing to do with ethnicity, although in our modern times we might jump to that.

These were organised criminal gangs who controlled the race courses, horse racing, running protection rackets on bookmakers, rigging races and fighting pitched battles with rival outfits.

The Sabini Gang in London and the Birmingham Boys, who were the original model for the Peaky Blinders, were the most notorious of the period.

A gang member shot during a turf war and driven across the country by his girlfriend is entirely plausible for this world.

So doing time means...

just going to prison.

She's a shoplifter, but mainly books.

Yeah, not jewellery, not stakes or razor blades as they do these days.

I think they steal anything these days.

But it gives her criminality a faintly absurd... You can imagine, you know, second-hand books, yeah.

People do steal books, of course.

So, what this is,

Oh yeah, the £9.

£9 is about, in US terms, $700 these days.

So it's not huge, but it's worth having.

So this is what Alan is doing.

Remember, he's a magician.

So presumably he performed to people.