-Compelling, authoritative and as readable as the best airport thriller. It fizzes with crime, fame, power and illicit sex.- Jeremy Vine
-A timely and important book. It-s quite remarkable how one building has played host to such debauchery. If only the walls could talk-- Iain Dale
Designed as a city dwelling for the modern age, Dolphin Square opened in London-s Pimlico in 1936. Boasting 1,250 hi-tech flats, a swimming pool, restaurant, gardens and shopping arcade, the complex quickly attracted a long list of the affluent and influential. But behind its veneer of respectability, the Square has become one of the country-s most notorious addresses; a place where the private lives of those from the highest of high society and the lowest depths of the underworld have collided and played out over the best part of a century.
This is the story of the Square and its people, an ever-evolving cast of larger-than- life charac