Curtis and the Covent Garden Lift
A genteel dust-up at the opera where a rather elegant hand and a trouser-folded wallet made magistrates marvellously flummoxed.Read More 
Peter Lalor and the Terracotta Revolt (Almost)
A furious heap of pickaxes, a hastily nailed barricade and one dashing fellow who lost an arm and gained a career-this is how a colony tried civil engineering on a whim.Read More 
When Captain Swing Signed The Envelope And The Thresher Went Missing
A genteel campaign of smashed machines, threatening letters and rural whoops that left magistrates flummoxed and farmers in pyjamas of fury.Read More 
Hooley's Marvellous Ledger Lie
He floated companies like ships, sold their imagined cargo, and left the ledgers looking rather foolish.Read More 
Captain Moonlite: The Man Who Borrowed Boots And Lost His Head
He adopted an officer's swagger, a string of aliases and a dreadfully theatrical fate that left policemen cross and townsfolk whispering over their tea.Read More 
Luetgert and the Sausage Kettle That Ate a Marriage
A prosperous Chicago sausage maker, a vanished wife, and a factory that smelled of very poor taste.Read More 
The Mary Celeste and the Vanishing Crew
A respectable American brig found drifting in 1872 with its captain, his family, and most sense missing, while every official explanation looked like codswallop.Read More 
The Baxter Faro That Ate the Tenner
A jolting little faro bank in 1870s London where a neat suit, a crooked deal and one man called William Baxter made gentlemen look disgracefully mortal.Read More 
Paul Bogle and the Courthouse Uproar
A grass-roots uprising in Jamaica turned into a colonial fiasco that sent governors and gentlemen into theatrical panic.Read More 
Terriss and the Stage Door Stabber
A theatrical death, a household grievance, and one man who thought revenge smelled marvellous and then gruesomely did it.Read More 