In that stately Fitzrovia house, the butler was murdered by a disgruntled pantry-boy; in that one...

This book features fifty-six Victorian cases of murder covered in the sensational weekly penny jo...

In the 1750s, the Learned English Dog was a sensation in London: this spelling and calculating bo...

South London has a long and blood-spattered history of capital crime and many of its murder house...

This book makes use of a privately held archive of the old periodical Illustrated Police News to ...

In his day, Reginald P. Phillimore (1855-1941) was one of Britain's leading postcard artists. A g...

An investigative account of the still-unsolved assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Pa...

After her coronation in 1838, Queen Victoria was a frightened young woman. She was relentlessly p...

In his new collection of essays, Jan Bondeson tells ten fascinating stories of myths and hoaxe...

WHEN JACK THE RIPPER first prowled the streets of London, an evening newspaper commented that his...

In this book of amazing oddities, the successor to his popular Cabinet of Medical Curiositiesand ...

When discussing unsolved murders of women in late Victorian London, most people think of the depr...