The Smithfield Wallets Caper That Made Gentlemen Sulk
A baffling little ring stole purses among prize cattle, and the courts had to tidy the mess with surprising decorum.Read More 
When Donnybrook Lost Its Licence And Its Temper
A centuries old Dublin fair that loved a fight, until the town politely told it to leave the premises.Read More 
Jesse James A Most Civilised Stick-Up
A very theatrical hold-up on the Rock Island line in 1873 that made gentlemen gasp and bank clerks sulk.Read More 
South Kensington's Sticky-Fingered Season
An elegant fair, a crush of admirers, and a small army of nimble hands that treated pocket-watchery like high art.Read More 
Courvoisier and the Bedroom Scene
A valet's theft, a furious confrontation, and a trial that made polite society cough into its handkerchiefs.Read More 
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 