Contents

Introduction

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Francis Losch – 1818

Chapter 2 Thomas Birmingham – 1829

Chapter 3 The Murder of Catherine Elmes – 1833

Chapter 4 William Jarman – 1837

Chapter 5 William John Marchant – 1839

Chapter 6 Robert Williamson – 1842

Chapter 7 Michael and Ann Connell – 1851

Chapter 8 James Mooney – 1867

Chapter 9 Walter Miller – 1870

Chapter 10 Frances Stewart – 1874

Chapter 11 Charles O’Donnell – 1876

Chapter 12 Michael McConnon – 1877

Chapter 13 The Murder of George James – 1878

Chapter 14 Henry Perry – 1880

Chapter 15 Robert Booley – 1883

Chapter 16 Henry John Surtees – 1883

Chapter 17 Samuel Davis and Alfred George Plank – 1885

Chapter 18 James White – 1888

Chapter 19 John Thomas Lawrence – 1890

Chapter 20 Owen Leonard – 1891

Chapter 21 John Noble – 1892

Chapter 22 Walter Hosler – 1892

Chapter 23 Reginald Traherne Saunderson – 1895

Chapter 24 Alice Jane Money – 1908

Chapter 25 Madan Lal Dhingra – 1909

Chapter 26 The Murder of Frances Buxton – 1920

Chapter 27 Ronald True – 1922

Chapter 28 Joseph O’Sullivan and Reginald Dunne – 1922

Chapter 29 George Frank Harvey – 1934

Chapter 30 Harold Dorian Trevor – 1942

Chapter 31 George Cyril Epton – 1946

Chapter 32 Thomas John Ley and Lawrence John Smith – 1946

Chapter 33 John George Haigh – 1949

Chapter 34 John O’Connor – 1951

Chapter 35 Dennis George Muldowney – 1952

Chapter 36 Kenneth Gilbert and Ian Arthur Grant – 1954

Chapter 37 Guenther Fritz Erwin Podola– 1959

Chapter 38 Marilyn Anne Bain – 1962

Chapter 39 Robert Lipman – 1967

Chapter 40 Other Murders and Foul Deeds –Various Dates