Contents
Chapter 1 Militia Major Killed in a Duel, 1806
Chapter 2 The Hope Street Gang and the Cholera Riots, 1826–32
Chapter 3 A Poacher Shooting, 1846
Chapter 4 A Brutal Robbery, 1852
Chapter 5 The Cafferata Poisoning, 1860
Chapter 6 The Killer Butcher, 1862
Chapter 7 Murders in the Mean Streets, 1873–4
Chapter 8 Brutality to Women, 1850-80
Chapter 9 The High Rip Gang, 1874
Chapter 10 Finger in the Till, 1875
Chapter 11 A Bomb Outside the Police Station: Fenian Troubles, 1880s
Chapter 12 He Killed Grandma, 1883
Chapter 13 Murderous Sisters, 1884
Chapter 14 Dangerous Deeming: Ripper Suspect, 1891
Chapter 15 Margaret Walber: Husband Killer, 1894
Chapter 16 The Seafarer and the Bookseller, 1895
Chapter 17 The Maybrick Sensation, 1889
Chapter 18 Mysterious Death of a Street Singer, 1899
Chapter 19 Goudie, Victim and Swindler, 1901
Chapter 20 A Shooting in Great Newton Street, 1904
Chapter 21 Spring-Heeled Jack in Everton, 1904
Chapter 22 The Madge Kirby Mystery, 1908
Chapter 23 Women Campaigners in Walton Gaol, 1909
Chapter 24 The Wife-Killer Docker, 1910
Chapter 25 Death in the Church of Humanity, 1913
Chapter 26 The Body in a Sack, 1913
Chapter 27 Murder of a Nurse, 1919
Chapter 28 Riots, Strikes and Violence, 1911–19
Chapter 29 The McKenzie Murder, 1921
Chapter 30 A Man Beset by Demons, Lock Ah Tam, 1925
Chapter 31 The Wallace Mystery, 1931
Chapter 32 Wartime Crime Tales, 1939–45
Chapter 33 Suicide in the Adelphi, 1942
Chapter 34 The Cameo Cinema Case, 1950
Chapter 35 After the Stash, 1951
Chapter 36 The Rugby Player Hero, 1963