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The Innocents Mysteries Series
The Lady Pinkertons
The Characters Behind the Characters – Tom Horn – Murderous Killer-for-hire and Lawman.
The Characters Behind the Characters – Maud Francis Davis – Sociologist and Social Reformer
The Characters Behind the Characters. Dr. Mary Walker – Larger than Life.
The Gentlemen Thieves
Media Reviews
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Mystery Giveaway!
Obscure And Mysterious Victoriana
Weird Coincidences
Weird coincidences – The Three Assassinations
The Texas Embassy
The Twelve Days of Christmas
First, Do No Harm
The Ratho Murder
The Last Public Execution in Edinburgh
Hazzard by Name , Hazzard by Nature
Things Discovered by Mistake in the 19th Century
Victorian Cosmetics and Beauty Secrets
The Victorian Laundry
Vile Bodies: Obscure Facts About Famous Victorians
Vile Bodies: Obscure Facts About Famous Victorians
The Quack
Rediscovering Victorian Cleaning
Forgotten Female Accessories
The Spy Who Stole the President’s Father
Criminals – Quite Literally
Dying for a Craze
Recycling – Victorian Style – The Murder Clues Hidden in Plain Sight – Lizzie Borden
The First Unconventional Christmas Carol Service
Strange Crimes of the 19th Century
The Matronly Malefactor
The Many Faces of the Mistress
19th Century Mourning Rituals and Customs
Spy Gadgets and Gizmos of the 19th Century
The Waning of Mrs. Moon
The 19th Century Muscle Women
Unusual Gravestones and Burials
The tradition of Christmas Ghost Stories
19th Century Crazes and Fads
Victorian Secrets – Sexual Mores and Contradictions in the 19th Century
Vile Bodies: Obscure Facts About Famous Victorians
How Libraries Changed the World for Women
Strange 19th Century Court Cases
Strange and Unusual Deaths in the 19th Century
Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls
A Day With The Dead – 19th Century Graveyard Picnicking
The Colours of the 19th Century
The Whiskey Wars That Left Brooklyn in Ruins
Mugshots. The 19th Century Invention Still Used Every Day
Poison In The Pot – The 19th Century Whistleblower and the Poison Squad
St. Valentine’s Day – Love and Vinegar In The 19th Century
The Cleveland Street Scandal
This Infamous 19th-Century Birth Control Pamphlet Got Its Writer Imprisoned
The Secret Recipes Of The 19th Century
Crazy Inventions Of the 19th Century
Things Invented Much Earlier Than You Think
The 19th Century – The Invention Of Modern Times
Christmas in 19th Century America
The Christmas Murders – The Knickerbocker Murders
The Christmas Murders – The Gruesome Murder Of Hannah Brown
The Christmas Murders – This week; The Legend Of Stagger Lee
Thanksgiving Ragamuffins: The tradition.
The Real Electric Frankenstein Experiments of the 1800s
The First Lady Of San Quentin – Mary Von
Daniel Dunglas Home Magician or Psychic?
How Did Halloween Come to be Such A Big Holiday?
Sentenced To Be Dissected
Strange Victorian Foods For The Poor
A Woman Scorned
The Victorian craze that sparked a mini-sexual revolution
Ghost Photography
Spinach Ice Cream And 5 Other Weird Victorian Recipes
Unwritten Laws of the Past and the Freedom to Kill
NICOTINE AND THE CHEMISTRY OF MURDER
The Strange Victorian Fashion Of Self-Electrification
Victorian Feminine Hygiene
Female Soldiers of the American Civil War
SUCKING THE MONKEY
The Thames Torso Murders of 1887-89
Jesse Pomeroy: America’s Youngest Serial Killer
Bridgeport Murder Case
The Lambeth Poisoner
The Pimlico Poisoning Mystery
THE LONDON GARROTTING PANIC OF THE MID-19TH CENTURY
The Golden Crown
Forensic Ballistics: Who Did The Shooting?
For 10 years, ‘Jolly Jane’ poured her poison
8 Unusual Deaths From the Victorian Era
Was Dr. Crippen Innocent After All?
The Roman empress who used forensic science to identify her rival’s head
Why Brain Scientists Are Still Obsessed With The Curious Case Of Phineas Gage
Who put Bella down the Wych Elm?
Edinburgh’s Mysterious Miniature Coffins
The metal sign leaning against the tree trunk reads:
MURDER BY POISON
The Body Of ‘Devil In The White City’ Serial Killer H.H. Holmes Is Being Exhumed
An Early History of Forensic Entomology, 1300-1900
Europe’s Famed Bog Bodies Are Starting to Reveal Their Secrets
Beastly Justice
A Fingerprint Fable: The Will and William West Case
Victorian ‘Coffin Torpedoes’ Blasted Would-Be Body Snatchers
WITCHCRAFT
600 year old mystery code cracked by Bedfordshire Professor
Interviews With Other Authors
Interview With Sudesna Ghosh
Interview with Robert Crawford
Interview with A.J. Griffiths-Jones
Interview with Cate Simon
Interview with David P. Perlmutter
Interview With Nina Romano
Interview with H. A. Dawson
Interview With Kryssie Fortune
Interview With Shaun Baines
Interview With Iris Chacon
Interview With Phyllis Entis
Interview with Cheryl Holloway
Interview with Karen Wood
Interview with Kari Bovee
Interview with Mary L. Schmidt
Interview With Debbie A. Stansil
Interview With William Schumpert
Interview with Wendy Slater
Interview with Jasper Trey
Interview with Patrick Bowmaster
Interview with G.J. Stevens
Musings
Predictions That Got it Terribly Wrong
The Truth Behind Nursery Rhymes
The Truth Behind Fairy Tales
The Truth Behind The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Weird Coincidences in Crime
The Day Job
Spring Forward, Fall Back
What the Heart Wants
New You, the Old Way
Ahead of the Curve
Jam and Jerusalem – The Lasting Legacy of the Women’s Institute
Lammastide
April Showers and Flowers
The Original Great British Bake Off
The Princess Spy
Unusual Christmas Decorations from Around the World
November’s Explosive Historic Festival
The Perfects
Tomfoolery and the Men of the Oaks
One Foot in the Past
Two Sleeps
America’s Celtic Legacy
Legends and Reality
Magic and Reality
Myth and Reality
Tearing Your Hair Out
The Acid Test
Go East, Young Man
The Mail Order Bride Murder
New Year, New World
Leap Year
Horrible Historic Diets
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