Larman is well placed to make it, having spent a large part of his career reporting on the grandest and grubbiest corners of the House of Windsor, whose headquarters is just down the road—there is no vault of sordid gossip Larman can't crank open. The Secrets of Eaton Square moves house by house, rather than by decade, as it examines the illustrious street.

You can see, after reading it, that this is the only honest way to write about the square. Its inhabitants, unlike other pockets of London, like the Primrose Hill set or the Sloane Rangers, were never a set or community.

There was no camaraderie or physical closeness one gets with their neighbors. So Larman treats each dwelling as its own crime scene taped up for examination.

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