A Stepchild, A Stream, and Excessive Ceremony
A domestic murder that involved a drowned little girl, a house in a muddle, and a trial that treated common sense like an inconvenient teaspoon.Read More 
The Bootmaker They Called Leather Apron
A humble bootmaker was painted by the press as a fiend and then politely un-arrested by a police force that loved paperwork more than patience.Read More 
Florence Maybrick and the Sachet
A Liverpool marriage, a dying gentleman, and an arsenic question that made everyone suddenly splendidly opinionated.Read More 
The Ledgers That Smiled and Lied
A grand provincial bank kept a grin on its balance sheet while quietly passing the hat round behind the curtains.Read More 
Maria Manning and the Business of Bad Taste
A grisly little domestic fraud in which a woman sold her lover's finery and the public discovered what happens when common decency goes on holiday.Read More 
When an Electric Telegraph Tattled on a Murderer
A domestic spat, a cup of prussic acid, and the new-fangled telegraph making policemen look frighteningly competent.Read More 
Sam Bass's Big Springs Payday
A Texan gambler paused a Union Pacific express at Big Springs and bolted off with a fortune in newly minted gold while the railway proprietors scrambled like embarrassed butlers.Read More 
Rebecca's Nightly Raid: Tollgates and Temper
Masked men calling themselves Rebecca's daughters tore up tollgates across rural Wales and made magistrates behave like startled butlers.Read More 
Mary Ann Price and the Parlour of Illicit Trinkets
A drawing room turned into a ledger of loot, and one very jollyly incompetent fence who could not keep her receipts straight.Read More 
Adolph Beck and the Extraordinary Case of the Wrong Man
A tale of mistaken faces, borrowed names and a law that finally had to tidy up its paperwork.Read More 