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Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

CHAPTER

The Baroness Opera Singer's Town House

The so called centre of german intrigues was in a baroness opera singer's chelsea town house. Her name was martha held now, he was from a marriage that we don't really know where she got the name. From the moment she first rented this town house, neighbors began suspecting that perhaps she was a madam. So it certainly looked a lot like a brothel. Missus held told me on several occasions that the sea captains on the german boats were accustomed to coming there. And she said she would give them little dinners at night. This was, in fact, a safe house for german intelligence officers and operatives connected to the top level g

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