“A man’s London club offers him a fortress,” writes Richard Usborne in a rather clubby book, aptly titled Clubland Heroes. “When Scotland Yard was baffled, inspectors … put through phone calls to Clubland members”. Usborne was writing about the West-End clubs of London. His heroes were fictional, drawn from the English writers Dornford Yates, John Buchan, and Sapper. “I have called this book