Israel Lipski and the Lodging-House Panic
A London lodging-house, an ugly press, and a hanging that left plenty of folk saying "gi'or, tha'sen sure?"Read More 
Madame Restell: The Businesswoman Who Sold Secrecy
She ran an open clinic, took good money, and the city spent decades pretending none of it happened - marvellous, awkward, and utterly Victorian.Read More 
Mary Ann Cotton: The Quiet House That Bought Brass
She turned kitchen scraps and sickroom sympathy into insurance payouts, and the bairns paid the price.Read More 
the boy who vanished off the porch and left a city obsessed
A four year old vanished from his Philadelphia stoop in 1874 and the whole country went wild, forever changing how people thought about ransom and childhood.Read More 
Stead Bought a Girl and Went to Gaol
He bought Eliza Armstrong to expose a rotten trade and ended up serving time for the very stunt that made the nation furious.Read More 