the woman they dragged to the scaffold
There was a tiny house, a missing child, a town that could not resist a spectacle, and one woman who became the final headline of a public era.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 
The Cellar That Counterfeited Confidence
A grubby basement, clever dies and a ragged band of workmen who made coins so convincing even a magistrate blinked.Read More 
Somerset Night-Raid That Ate the Papers
This is a tiny, filthy, and somehow theatrical Victorian land-grab where hungry men, a pearly dawn and one lethargic magistrate weaponised chaos into headlines.Read More 
Martha Tabram and the Night at George Yard
A bit of Whitechapel that refused to behave quietly, a woman with a shabby life and a peculiar headline appetite from the press.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 
George Lamson and the Bitter Cup
A doctor who knew his plants ended up in a courtroom because a medicine tasted like trouble.Read More 
That Time the Canal Gave Up a Body and Everyone Looked Like a Suspect
A grim, quietly weird Victorian mystery where a corpse in a London canal dragged dockworkers, a barge captain and a crooked ledger into the same gossip stew. I got obsessed, obviously.Read More 
Gould's Gold Gambit
A grotesquely elegant wheeze in 1869 where Jay Gould and a gentlemanly accomplice tried to buy the nation's glittering coin.Read More 
Ballarat's Bogus Sovereigns and a Very Shabby Shine
A gold rush town found fake sovereigns so convincing they made honest miners feel like they've been sold a pup.Read More 