It’s surprising, after your delightful feature on how London fog has “seeped into fiction” (Beyond the pall, Review, 31 October), that no one has mentioned Margery Allingham’s superb 1952 novel, The Tiger in the Smoke. In it Albert Campion hunts for a killer through a muffling London particular. I urge you to read it, and her other Campion novels. They remain lively and beguiling.
Antonia Till
London
• Oi! Lay off us old folks as being ignorant and louche about avocados (Ripe and ready: how ‘evil geniuses’ got us hooked on avocados, 2 November). Check out André Simon, who in 1942 recommended eating them with a vinaigrette, and Jane Grigson, who in her book on vegetables gives some very good recipes. The avocado became rather a dinner party cliche in the 70s. It all comes round again.
Eyke Shannon
Westleton, Suffolk
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