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In August 1892, two people were brutally murdered inside a locked house in Fall River, Massachusetts. The case that followed would become one of the most enduring mysteries in American history. Lizzie Borden: A True-Crime Historical Account returns to the original record to examine what is known—and what remains uncertain—about the deaths of Andrew and Abby Borden. Drawing exclusively from police reports, inquest testimony, trial transcripts, and contemporary accounts, this book traces the lives, routines, and tensions within the Borden household, the events of 4 August 1892, and the ...

They were only children. In 1917, Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths produced photographs that appeared to show fairies at Cottingley Beck. The images were declared genuine, published worldwide, and championed by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Years later, the truth emerged. The Fairy Case examines the photographs, the experts, the silence, and the human need that turned five simple plates into proof.

In 1880s Britain, the chemist’s shop stood at the centre of a quiet revolution. Behind its polished counter were the substances that eased pain, soothed nerves, and saved lives — and the same substances that could quietly kill. As pharmacy professionalised and poison laws tightened, Victorian society struggled to balance access with safety, privacy with accountability, and relief with risk. The Victorian Chemist explores the uneasy coexistence of medicine and poison in an age of rapid chemical progress. Through regulation, scandal, courtroom testimony, and everyday trade, this book ...

London, 1886. A husband dies in a rented room in Pimlico. Chloroform is found in his stomach. Adelaide Bartlett was accused of murdering her husband, Thomas Edwin Bartlett, in one of the most perplexing poison cases of the Victorian era. The medical evidence revealed a lethal quantity of chloroform — yet no clear explanation of how it had been administered. At the Old Bailey, expert witnesses clashed. The marriage was dissected. A minister’s involvement deepened suspicion. But suspicion is not proof. Acquitted in April 1886, Adelaide Bartlett walked free. The question of how chloroform ...

Marie Antoinette has been tried for centuries: in pamphlets, caricatures, gossip, and myth. This is her life — and the autopsy of the reputation that consumed it. Sent from Vienna to Versailles at fourteen, Marie Antoinette became the most visible woman in France just as a nation began to fracture under debt, inequality, and hunger. As public anger rose, her clothes, friendships, foreign birth, and even her motherhood were turned into evidence of corruption. Long before the guillotine, she was executed in story — reduced to a symbol that made complex failures feel like the fault of one ...

Versailles raised her in mirrors—then the Revolution taught her what stone can do to a girl. Marie-Thérèse Charlotte, Madame Royale, was born into silk, ceremony, and a world that believed itself permanent. But when France turns on its monarchy, she is forced from palace corridors into the Tuileries—then into the Temple, where keys decide everything and childhood becomes a thing she is no longer allowed to hold. In Madame Royale: Daughter of Versailles, Prisoner of France, Alana Sanchez follows the forgotten survivor of the French Revolution—not as a footnote to famous parents, but ...

By the 1850s, the workhouse no longer proves itself. The experiment is over. The system continues. This second volume traces a decade inside Southwell Workhouse where hardship becomes routine and “proper management” becomes a language of control. Through dietaries that regulate hunger, classifications that decide fate, labour imposed as a test, punishment administered as procedure, and medical care weighed against cost, the workhouse is shown not as a moment of crisis, but as an institution made ordinary. Ordinary rules. Hard realities. Last resort.

Castles were not built on romance — they were built on labour. Step inside the real working world of a medieval French castle: servants, peasants, village life, and the dangerous forest boundary. Discover what people ate, what they owned, what they owed, and how survival was managed behind the Great Hall — without the myths.

A Hungarian countess. A castle above the village. A trail of whispers that became a case the crown could not ignore. Countess Dracula follows the documented investigation into Elizabeth Báthory and the legend that transformed her into the most infamous female serial killer in European history. Separating record from myth, this true-crime manuscript traces the rise, fall, confinement, and cultural afterlife of the woman history could not keep human.

In the heart of New Orleans’ French Quarter, Delphine LaLaurie lived as a woman of wealth, lineage, and reputation — until a fire in April 1834 exposed what her shuttered windows had concealed. The House on Royal Street traces LaLaurie’s rise through the city’s elite, the crime that shocked a slaveholding society, and the legend that followed when she fled. A historical true crime account of power, secrecy, and the lives lost beneath a story that refused to end.

In a respectable home, secrets are meant to stay hidden. Walburga “Dolly” Oesterreich was a wealthy wife living an ordinary life on the surface — until a teenage lover vanished into the attic above her marriage. For years, the household carried two realities at once: husband and wife below, the hidden man above, sustained by silence and routine. Then Fred Oesterreich was shot dead in his own home. The crime scene was staged as a burglary, valuables were taken, and Dolly was locked inside a wardrobe to appear helpless. Police searched for an intruder while the truth remained inside the...

Rome whispers about a poison that looks like holy water. They call it Aqua Tofana—a saint-faced bottle passed hand to hand, a rumour with a price, a promise made to desperate wives behind shuttered windows. Men call it evil. Priests call it temptation. The streets call it justice. But Giulia knows what it really is: a brand built in the cracks of a city that leaves women no safe exits. When a quiet network of laundresses, servants and midwives begins to fray under pressure—boots on stone, coins offered for silence, and the Church leaning close—Giulia must protect the one person she ...

In the 1840s, the workhouse was the centre of Britain’s response to poverty. This book tells the story of one such institution — Southwell Workhouse — during a single Victorian decade, when the New Poor Law was working exactly as intended. Based entirely on contemporary records, this is not a novel and not a work of fiction. It reconstructs daily life inside the workhouse through its own rules, registers, and reports: admission, classification, routine, labour, diet, punishment, illness, authority, and exit. Families were separated, work was enforced, hunger was regulated, and decline...

Southwell Workhouse: 1860–1869 is a forensic examination of a Victorian institution at the height of its administrative maturity. This third volume in the Southwell Workhouse series traces a decade not of scandal or collapse, but of consolidation—when the Poor Law learned how to absorb reform, satisfy scrutiny, and endure without becoming humane. Drawing exclusively on documentary evidence, this study follows the daily mechanics of control: classification, labour, diet, punishment, inspection, and record-keeping. The workhouse of the 1860s was cleaner, more efficient, and more ...

In late-Victorian London, infant death was common enough to pass without question—especially when the child had never been fully recorded as living. Claymore House examines one such arrangement that operated in plain sight. Women seeking discretion paid to give birth and surrender their infants, trusting that the children would be placed elsewhere. Instead, many disappeared. When the practice finally became visible, it did so not through moral reform but through repetition that could no longer be ignored. Drawing solely on court records, inquests, and co

An unflinching examination of trust inside the private household. In the early nineteenth century, Anna Margaretha Zwanziger moved quietly through respectable homes in the German states, working as a housekeeper in a world that relied on discretion, obedience, and trust. When illness and death followed her presence, private fear became public reckoning. The Woman in Service traces Zwanziger’s life from childhood and guardianship through marriage, widowhood, and domestic labour, placing her actions within the fragile systems that shaped women’s lives and work. Rather than ...

In early nineteenth-century Leeds, fear was common and answers were scarce. Mary Bateman sold both. Branded the “Yorkshire Witch”, she promised cures and protection, drawing desperate families into rituals, payments, and obedience. Then a woman died — and the story turned from superstition to murder. The Yorkshire Witch: The Mary Bateman Case is a chronological account grounded in the historical record, separating provable fact from legend while restoring the victims to the centre of the narrative. A true-crime manuscript of fraud, belief, and poison hidden in the domestic world.

In late-Victorian London, Minnie Pheby became a scandal: a young woman accused of burglary at a time when breaking into houses was considered a man’s crime. Branded by the press as the “lady burglar”, she was hunted, punished, and turned into a cautionary tale. Catwoman of West London reconstructs her story from surviving records — and reveals what her crimes exposed about class, gender, and the fragile promise of the Victorian home.

What if the dead were the price of medical progress? In the Victorian and Edwardian eras, Britain’s medical schools faced an impossible dilemma: anatomy demanded human bodies, yet the law provided almost none. The result was a hidden trade in the dead—grave robbing, body snatching, and, in its darkest moments, murder. The History of Grave Robbing traces the rise and fall of the resurrection men, the legal contradictions that enabled them, and the social inequalities that made the poor uniquely vulnerable in death. From the Burke and Hare murders to the Anatomy Act of 1832, from ...

In October 1888, a gunshot shattered the fragile order of a young frontier town. When a North-West Mounted Police constable forced his way into a notorious Edmonton brothel, the woman behind the door refused to yield. The shot that followed wounded a Mountie—and exposed a system built on tolerated vice, selective enforcement, and silence. Big Nelly Webb, a madam operating at the edges of legality, became the centre of a public scandal that threatened police authority, unsettled civic respectability, and forced a courtroom to confront an uncomfortable truth: sometimes the law is the danger...