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 
The Medium Who Ghostwrote the Dead
A Victorian medium made messages appear on slates and then the conjurers and investigators made him look very exposed, which I am still laughing about.Read More 
How a Secret Society Made Boilers Miserable
A grim little campaign of mucked-up pumps, undercover detectives and one community that treated steam engines like enemy generals.Read More 
Frederick Deeming and the Many Names
An English conman who kept changing his name, married under false pretences, and ended up hung in Melbourne while everyone pretended it was tidy and simple.Read More 
Charles Cora Shot a Marshal and San Francisco Lost Its Mind
A gambler, a saloon, a shot in the street and a city that decided public justice could be done with a rope and a wagging finger.Read More 