The Girl Who Took a Nap and Never Woke
A routine toe job, a bottle of chloroform, and a Victorian hospital that looked utterly gormless afterward.Read More 
the man who shoved a bargeman into the Avon
A petty fight over a shilling turned into an actual watery mess and everyone at the wharf acted like it was perfectly normal until it wasn't.Read More 
Hooley's Marvellous Ledger Lie
He floated companies like ships, sold their imagined cargo, and left the ledgers looking rather foolish.Read More 
Tweed: The Man Who Made Ledgers Lie
He ran a city like a garage, billed the fans, and the books sang louder than a brass band.Read More 
John Baker and the Burlington Arcade Score
A posh arcade, a night-time climb, and one bloke who thought the jewellery would be an easy win - it was not.Read More 
Captain Moonlite: The Man Who Borrowed Boots And Lost His Head
He adopted an officer's swagger, a string of aliases and a dreadfully theatrical fate that left policemen cross and townsfolk whispering over their tea.Read More 
Gordon-Cumming and the Bloody Baccarat
A country house, a crooked card, and a prince on the stand turned good breeding into front-page theatre.Read More 
They Burned Her For Being A Fairy
An Irish cottage, old superstition and a husband who decided his wife had been nicked by the fair folk - gruesome and daft in equal measure.Read More 
when a rich gang tried to execute vigilante country vibes and failed
This is a wild true thing where hired guns, cowboy theatre, and a besieged ranch made Wyoming look like a messy western reality show and I am here for the chaos.Read More 
Thomas Ragg Stole a Silver Habit - And Laughed
A cheeky gent who picked church chests and gentlemen's parlours, gave the police a runaround and left the papers smelling faintly of scandal and burnt toast.Read More 