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London West End Treasure Hunt: Who Pushed Molly May?

1. London West End Treasure Hunt: Who Pushed Molly May?

Turn the buzzing streets of London's West End into an exciting outdoor escape room, with The Mystery of Who Pushed Molly May. Solve the clues, eliminate the suspects, and unmask the mysterious villain behind Theatreland's most famous showbiz mystery. As the story goes, on 1st July 1920 Molly May’s big opening night ended in disaster when she broke her leg falling down the theatre stairs in front of waiting fans and paparazzi, insisting that she had been pushed. Who was the mysterious actress who lurked behind this terrible deed? Was she the victim of a jealous co-star? Or did she simply stumble?. Discover the West End's most iconic sights and atmospheric pubs as you unravel the historic mystery and discover the true identity of the actress behind the crime.

London Literary Walking Tour (Bloomsbury)

2. London Literary Walking Tour (Bloomsbury)

This private walking tour takes you on an interesting 2.5 hour walk around the Bloomsbury district of London. What Montmartre in Paris is to the world of art then so is Bloomsbury to the world of literature. Bloomsbury was the center of the English-speaking literary world in the 19th and 20th centuries and to a degree still is.  The beautiful squares and quiet neighborhoods created a special community where writers from around the world would come to live and write in a creative atmosphere. On this tour you will visit the homes of a number of world-renowned writers, see the largely unchanged neighborhoods that they lived in and which helped form some of the greatest works of literature of all time. Just some of the places you will visit include the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Charles Darwin and the Suffragette Millicent Garrett Fawcett. You'll see the building that inspired George Orwell and his Ministry of Truth in 1984. Learn about the tragic life of Virginia Woolf, a prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group and the location of where Sir Arthur Conan Doyle invented the famous sleuth Sherlock Holmes and why he never liked his famous detective. Such luminaries as Gertrude Stein, Aleister Crowley, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde and WB Yeats round off the tour, not forgetting J M Barrie whose wonderful story of Peter Pan continues to help a world-famous children’s hospital in London to this day.

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