The first Metropolitan Police murders
Four unsolved historical homicides
The Detective's Notebook
Historical true crime, Victorian and Edwardian detectives, and the history of forensic science.
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How to uncover a murder
When crime history meets local history...
Who Killed Constable Cock?
A historical murder with a shocking twist
Inside The Detective’s Notebook
Monthly briefing for founding members
Pickpocketing in paradise
Detective adventures at the pleasure grounds
Belfast’s infamous prison
The Crumlin Road Gaol experience
Introducing Detective James McLevy
Edinburgh’s Sherlock Holmes
The Burke and Hare murders
Although they were not technically 'bodysnatchers', the serial killings of William Burke and William Hare, in Scotland in the late 1820s, were closely linked to the nefarious trade in corpses. It is a dark and complex history.
Inside The Detective’s Notebook
Monthly briefing for founding members
Death by antimony
Was antimony an everyday Victorian murder weapon? Here are three cases in which the poison was used to kill (or attempt to), including a very famous poisoner, and a senior police officer who gave away the evidence as souvenirs.