John Sadleir Banker's Last Bluff
An MP who treated other people's savings like play money, then watched everything go arse over tit when the stakes got too high.Read More 
Howell's Letters and the Fine Art of Extortion
An art dealer who traded confidences for cash, forged scribbles, and made Victorian society cough up the brass with a smile.Read More 
The Great Exhibition That Picked London Clean
Six million visitors, iron and glass, and a thousand nimble fingers that treated pockets like confetti.Read More 
The Poacher Who Went Too Far (and Felt Proper Stupid)
A moonlit raid on a Yorkshire moor that ended with a shot, a ginnel, and a court that loved its theatre.Read More 
Dr Pritchard's Bitter Medicine
A respectable doctor who dosed his own household and found the law much less forgiving than a consulting room.Read More 
Margaret Waters and the Charity of Cold Rooms
She took infants for a fee, left them to starve, and the courts decided that was a very bad business plan.Read More 
How Clever Clerks Nicked A King's Brass
A grubby little conspiracy among railway men that emptied a bullion box and left the company looking very sheepish indeed.Read More 
Kate Webster and the Body in the Copper
An Irish servant, a boiled corpse, and a press that loved its horror served hot.Read More 
How Six Farmhands Turned The Law Upside Down
They swore an oath, the state lost its nerve, and a ragged lot of villagers made Westminster look mardy.Read More 
How Norwich's Back-Alley Press Turned Real Money Into Party Tricks
A grubby little press, a pair of clever prints, and a bench of magistrates who looked baffled and chuffed in equal measure.Read More 