Martha Tabram and the Night at George Yard
A bit of Whitechapel that refused to behave quietly, a woman with a shabby life and a peculiar headline appetite from the press.Read More 
Gould's Gold Gambit
A grotesquely elegant wheeze in 1869 where Jay Gould and a gentlemanly accomplice tried to buy the nation's glittering coin.Read More 
How a Secret Society Made Boilers Miserable
A grim little campaign of mucked-up pumps, undercover detectives and one community that treated steam engines like enemy generals.Read More 
The Ham That Caused a Huffy Scandal
A provincial butcher, a lifted ham, and a courtroom that preferred paperwork over common sense - ghastly, marvellous, and utterly human.Read More 
When the Fenians Tried to Make Trains Disappear (Almost)
A ludicrously earnest campaign of tiny explosions, grand politics and one extraordinary public hiss of panic that left magistrates baffled and the populace rather cross.Read More 
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 