The Professor Who Hid a Body in His Lab and Acted Like Lunch Was Next
He was a Harvard man who owed money, then willed himself into the headlines with a laboratory that smelled faintly of panic and bad judgment.Read More 
Gordon-Cumming and the Bloody Baccarat
A country house, a crooked card, and a prince on the stand turned good breeding into front-page theatre.Read More 
Thomas Ragg Stole a Silver Habit - And Laughed
A cheeky gent who picked church chests and gentlemen's parlours, gave the police a runaround and left the papers smelling faintly of scandal and burnt toast.Read More 
Jack Rattenbury: Moonlight and Mischief
He was a Devon kid who loved the dark, the sea, and a life the gentry called unlawful; I call it proper theatre.Read More 
He Printed the Confederacy and Sold It at the Bodega
A Philadelphia printer churned out fake Confederate notes as souvenirs and somehow got the city to shrug, laugh and buy one for the mantelpiece.Read More 
Mary Ann Barlow and the Bonnet That Wouldn't Stay Put
A milliner, a bustle, and Mary Ann Barlow who tried to walk out with a hat and walked straight into a magistrate's mood.Read More 
That Courthouse Full of Men and Bad Decisions
When a Louisiana ballot fight turned into a slaughter, a paramilitary led by Christopher C Nash left a town shaking and the law embarrassed.Read More 
Patsy Conroy's Smooth Hands
He ran a waterfront crew that could lift a man's watch while he thought he was counting freight, and oh did I love the audacity.Read More 
John Bishop's Grimy Trade
He started digging up graves, then hustled harder and sold living men as corpses to surgeons while the papers ate it for breakfast.Read More 
Hobart's Tea That Sent Her to the Gallows
A Tasmanian wife, corrosive sublimate in the cup, and a trial that turned small-town gossip into a public execution.Read More 