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 
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 
She Put Strychnine in Chocolates and Brighton Lost Its Mind
Brighton 1878 had candy, chaos and one very extra woman trying to win a man's attention by any toxic means necessary.Read More 
Howell's Letters and the Fine Art of Extortion
An art dealer who traded confidences for cash, forged scribbles, and made Victorian society cough up the brass with a smile.Read More 
Adolph Beck and the Extraordinary Case of the Wrong Man
A tale of mistaken faces, borrowed names and a law that finally had to tidy up its paperwork.Read More 
how the renos pulled off a moving-bank heist and then got mobbed
They stopped the express, lifted the safe, and the whole Midwest lost its mind - this is the Reno brothers' very messy early train robbery.Read More 
The Great Exhibition That Picked London Clean
Six million visitors, iron and glass, and a thousand nimble fingers that treated pockets like confetti.Read More 