The Last Days of Newgate 1829, London. Following a suspect into the dark and dangerous rookeries, Bow Street Runner Pyke stumbles across a brutal murder. Finding himself involved in tracking down the killer, he is dragged into a deepening mystery that challenges all his talents as a thief taker. As the city seethes with religious…
Category: Crime
‘Who Killed Little Johnny Gill?’ by Kathryn McMaster
Who Killed Little Johnny Gill? A Victorian True Crime Murder Mystery Bradford, late December 1888. Young Johnny Gill leaves his loving family to help milkman William Barrett on his daily round. As his mother Mary Ann bids the lad goodbye, she has no idea she’ll never see her son alive again. When the boy fails…
Colin Garrow 