John Frost's Bad Day at Westgate
A chartist march went pear-shaped, soldiers fired, and a loudmouth leader got shipped off to Tasmania while the nation gawped.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 
Sam Bass's Big Springs Payday
A Texan gambler paused a Union Pacific express at Big Springs and bolted off with a fortune in newly minted gold while the railway proprietors scrambled like embarrassed butlers.Read More 
Stella, Fanny and the Old Bailey Circus
London loved their larks until the law rolled in and the whole town sipped tea and watched the spectacle.Read More 
How Jabez Balfour Turned a Building Society Into His ATM
He engineered fake companies, fed them pretty ledgers, then fled overseas when the music stopped - and yes the receipts were tragic.Read More 
Rebecca's Nightly Raid: Tollgates and Temper
Masked men calling themselves Rebecca's daughters tore up tollgates across rural Wales and made magistrates behave like startled butlers.Read More 
Soapy Smith's Final Hustle
He sold luck by the bar of soap, ran rigged card games, and ended up dead on a Skagway pier.Read More 
John Sadleir Banker's Last Bluff
An MP who treated other people's savings like play money, then watched everything go arse over tit when the stakes got too high.Read More 
Catherine Wilson: How Care Turned Cold
A Victorian nurse who loved to be useful and also loved money more, and yes the bedside stories are wild.Read More 
Crockford's Scandal: The Club That Ate Gentlemen
This is the lowdown on William Crockford's St James's den, the money, the cheats, and how high society learned to look foolish in public.Read More 