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The Thames is London's most important yet neglected artery. When a young woman is found chained to a post in the tide, no one can understand how she came to be drowned there. That's only part of the problem. Bryant's deteriorating condition prevents him from handling the case. To make matters worse, May makes a fatal error of judgment that knocks him out of action.

In an adventure that's as twisting as the river, will there be anything left of the Peculiar Crimes Unit when it's over?

In this short story magical fantasy, an oddball group of sailors embark on a botanical research expedition. However, at the journey’s onset, the starkly differing personalities in the vessel would clash and misunderstandings festered. As if being on a four-month-long journey wasn’t bad enough, the crew had to contend with the possibility that the waters beneath them may purposefully have been working against their progress.

Before lawyers, before courtrooms, before the presumption of innocence. There was the crocodile. In the ancient world, justice looked very different. Trial by ordeal, divine judgement, brutal punishments, very odd real laws, and other strange facts from history, which shaped the earliest legal systems of human civilization. This entertaining, popular history book explores strange laws, quirky historical facts, bizarre punishments, and unusual justice systems from ancient civilizations. In ancient Egypt, a man accused of a serious crime might be thrown into the Nile. If Sobek, the crocodile ...

A podcast about the word of the weird, ancient mysteries and modern conspiracies, and everything under the umbrella of high strangeness - plus all sorts of other cool stuff - brought to you by your host, Ryan Ford.