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 
Ikey Solomon Bought London's Goods
He ran the receiving end of a whole city kleptomania and made a polite fortune while the constables played catch up.Read More 
Tom Sayers, The Day England Went to Fisticuffs
A seaside scrape, a crowd gone mad, and two men trading leather while the papers did their teeth-gnash - classic theatre, darling.Read More 
Alice Diamond's Ladies Who Lifted
They ran rings round shopkeepers, dressed like roses, and moved like a private army of charmers - and I loved every scandalous minute.Read More 
John Frost's Bad Day at Westgate
A chartist march went pear-shaped, soldiers fired, and a loudmouth leader got shipped off to Tasmania while the nation gawped.Read More 
Stella, Fanny and the Old Bailey Circus
London loved their larks until the law rolled in and the whole town sipped tea and watched the spectacle.Read More 
Soapy Smith's Final Hustle
He sold luck by the bar of soap, ran rigged card games, and ended up dead on a Skagway pier.Read More 