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Which of Edinburghs most gruesome murders has happened in your street? And were they committed by Burke and Hare, by the Stockbridge Baby-Farmer, b...

No visitor to Edinburgh will miss the monument to Scotland's most famous dog, the little Skye terrier Greyfriars Bobby. This amazing dog, the most ...

When Jack the Ripper first prowled the streets of London, an evening newspaper commented that his crimes were as ghastly as those committed by Eliz...

This book features fifty-six Victorian cases of murder covered in the sensational weekly penny journal the Illustrated Police Newsbetween 1867 and ...

Born in Sinaloa, Mexico, Julia Pastrana (18341860) was a gifted singer, musician and dancer who could converse in English, Spanish and French. She ...

This book makes use of a privately held archive of the old periodical Illustrated Police News to describe strange, macabre and uncanny episodes fro...

Jan Bondeson has made an amazing discovery. The earliest English-language work of fiction to be entirely based on the mystery of Jack the Ripper is...

In that stately Fitzrovia house, the butler was murdered by a disgruntled pantry-boy; in that one, a kings housekeeper lost her life. In that Kensi...

In this book of amazing oddities, the successor to his popular Cabinet of Medical Curiositiesand The Two-Headed Boy, Jan Bondeson explores various ...

The Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, a major figure in world politics and an ardent opponent of apartheid, was shot dead on the streets of Stockh...

In his new collection of essays, Jan Bondeson tells ten fascinating stories of myths and hoaxes, beliefs and Ripley-like facts, concerning the anim...

Which of Greater Londons most gruesome murders happened in your street? And were they committed by Graham Frederick Young (the poisoner of the Nort...

When discussing unsolved murders of women in late Victorian London, most people think of the depredations of Jack the Ripper, the Whitechapel Murde...