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 
Franz Muller and the Night-Carriage Murder
A lone stranger, a strangled banker, and a press corps that could not behave itself.Read More 
Madame Rachel and the Cream of Confidence
A Bond Street charlatan sold youth in a jar and left London society cross, chuntering and conned.Read More 
When a Gallows Refused to Do Its Duty
A Devon lodger convicted of killing his employer and an execution that collapsed into bewilderment and very English paperwork.Read More 
How a Rogue Photographer Sold People Their Dead
A Boston camera man tricked grieving clients with ghostly portraits and wound up in a very public courtroom farce.Read More 
How a Back-Alarmed Brothel Made Lords Look Very Small
An absurd little scandal in a narrow Marylebone mews where telegram clerks, aristocrats and a terrified paperboy traded secrets for sovereigns.Read More 