London may be known for its drizzly weather, but in 1952 the city’s quintessential fog cover turned deadly, and no one knew exactly why — until now. For five days in December 1952, a fog that ...

London may be known for its drizzly weather, but in 1952 the city's quintessential fog cover turned deadly, and no one knew why — until now. For five days in December 1952, a fog that contained ...

Christine Corton’s “London Fog: A Biography” tells the story of the thick yellow fogs that cloaked London in the 19th and 20th centuries — they inspired a lot of Victorian-era literature ...

LONDON — The decades-old mystery of what caused a killer fog that claimed the lives of thousands of people here appears to have been solved by a team of international scientists.

Corton also discusses the book that Peter Ackroyd has called “the greatest novel of London fog,” Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” (1886).

She also discusses — all too briefly — the book that Peter Ackroyd has called "the greatest novel of London fog," Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1886).