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...

The spectacular development of medical knowledge over the last two centuries has brought intrusiv...

Morality was a dominant theme in the 1990s, but concerns about morality seem omnipresent in the f...

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

Prisoners in Prison Societies is a study of criminal career patterns over time, demonstrating spe...

The detrimental effects of imprisonment have been documented and accepted in most western countri...

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