Curious Crimes

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The Professor Who Hid a Body in His Lab and Acted Like Lunch Was Next

He was a Harvard man who owed money, then willed himself into the headlines with a laboratory that smelled faintly of panic and bad judgment.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 Mad Surgeon Who Loved Dictionaries and Shot a Man

A peculiar London killing that produced a criminal lunatic, a very large lexicon habit, and correspondence that rescued a work of national ambition.Read More

Oxford Fired At The Queen And Looked Proper Gormless

A young man with a brace of pistols, the royal carriage, and a courtroom that decided he was daft enough to be kept out of sight.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

The Boy Jones: That Kid Who Haunted Buckingham

A cheeky young bloke named Edward Jones kept slipping into the royal rooms and the papers went bananas - honestly, it read like palace gossip with locks.Read More
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