This should have been fodder for a _Due South_ episode...

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...or maybe for one of Sara Paretsky's V.I. Warshawski tales (if Mme. Paretsky hasn't already made use of it and I've simply forgotten...)?

Tunnels of downtown Chicago, anyone?

http://www.granta.com/Magazine/108/Soaked/1

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I'm pretty sure they were the inspiration of Undertown in the Dresden Files.

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Been meaning to give those novels a closer look-see for some time now.