Gatton: Three Bodies, A Paddock And A Right Muddle
They found three dead people in a Queensland paddock in 1898 and the whole place acted like it had never seen trouble before.Read More 
Richard Pigott and the Forged Letters That Made Everyone Wig
A forger sold fake letters to The Times, the Parnell Commission roasted him, and the fallout ended in Madrid; TBH the whole thing is a mess I can still taste.Read More 
Dudley and the Cabin Boy Who Became Dinner
A yacht sinks, three blokes get desperate, and the courts teach everyone that hunger is not a legal shield.Read More 
Curtis and the Covent Garden Lift
A genteel dust-up at the opera where a rather elegant hand and a trouser-folded wallet made magistrates marvellously flummoxed.Read More 
John Fleming and Myall Creek killings
A country massacre, a leader who vanished, and a court that chose to hang some men while others were ghosted by history - sheesh.Read More 
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 
Peter Lalor and the Terracotta Revolt (Almost)
A furious heap of pickaxes, a hastily nailed barricade and one dashing fellow who lost an arm and gained a career-this is how a colony tried civil engineering on a whim.Read More 
The Mersey That Spat Up a Man Nobody Could Name
A river coughed up a stranger, and the docks turned detective while the coroner wrote minutes like a bar-room sermon.Read More 
the poplar boy who hid a mother and everyone lost their chill
This is a tiny London house, a missing woman, and a kid whose choices made the whole town gasp and then gossip, hard.Read More 
When Captain Swing Signed The Envelope And The Thresher Went Missing
A genteel campaign of smashed machines, threatening letters and rural whoops that left magistrates flummoxed and farmers in pyjamas of fury.Read More
