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 
How Charles Peace Sold Stolen Silver and Got Too Clever
He nicked the silver, hid it in a parlour, and sold it to a bloke who thought he was sharper than he was - and then the music stopped.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 
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 