And of course there's also Philip Pullman's The Tin Princess, which after reading Royal Flash suddenly comes into focus as his take on the stories of Lola Montez and Duchess Irina...
Indeed - I meant to mention that, but got distracted into restarting AZ (and for some reason I'm seeing Strelsau as rather like Prague). I've vague memories of one of Buchan's "Dickson McCunn" books having a similar flavour, but it's set in the Balkans during the 1930s...
I've obviously not got my editing head on this morning (or it's fallen out of use): I didn't spot the typos at all. Of course, that's probably 'cos the hideously plastic Windows XP (should be FP for Fisher Price) interface hasn't gone transparent on me yet.
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