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and Mary Ann Cotton 130

and Palmer 130–7

and strychnine 133, 135

Police Gazette
39

police/policing

and Bow Street Runners 35

early forms of 31–5

seen as an attractive career 40–1

Thames Police 20, 25, 31–2, 36

see also
Metropolitan

Police Polstead 91–2

Prevention of Crimes Act (1871) 205

Prisoners’ Property Act 209

Pritchard, Mathew 240–1

Probert, William 47, 48

pulp magazines 279

Punch
18, 66, 108, 114

puppet show 103–6

Rachel, Madame 174–6

Radcliffe, Ann 69–70

The Mysteries of Udolpho
69

Raffles (fictional gentleman thief) 226–7

Ramotswe, Mma Precious (female fictional detective) 211

Rappaport, Helen 175, 176

Ratcliffe Highway Murders (1811) 2, 4, 18, 19–29, 31–2, 36–7, 43–4, 63, 127

Red Barn murder (1828) 91–101,
100
, 103–5

dramatic versions of 106–7, 109

puppet show 103–6

Resurrection Men 198

Ricardo, Alexander 146

Ripley, Mike 273–4

Ripper Street
(tv series) 292

Road Hill House murder (1860) 151–7, 158–9, 163, 166–7

Robinson, John 209–10

Romantic movement 46

Rubenstein, William D. 272

Rudd, Martha 173, 174

Ruddick, James 148, 149

Ruth Martin, the Fatal Dreamer
107

St Bartholomew’s Fair 100, 103

St Giles area (London) 87–9

Sala, George Augustus 72–3, 87

Sayers, Dorothy L. 6, 224, 230, 238, 245–56,
247
, 258, 274, 275–7

background and career 246–8

character 245–6

and Detection Club 258, 263, 264, 265

estate 229

Gaudy Night
177, 247, 253–4

and Lord Peter Wimsey character 253, 349–50

and murder of Julia Wallace case 262

murder methods in novels 252–3

Murder Must Advertise
248–9

The Nine Tailors
246, 270, 275

personal life and relationships 233, 251–2, 254–5

public denial of her son 252, 255

Strong Poison
251, 253

view of the thriller 273

Whose Body?
349

writing for radio 255

Scene of Crimes Officer (SOCO) 203

Schalch, Johann 54–5

Scotland Yard
see
Metropolitan Police

Scott, Sir Walter 49

‘sensation novel’ 163–77, 287, 288

servants

depiction of in detective fiction 270–1

Sharp, Alan 192

Shaw, Joseph T. 280

Shelley, Mary

Frankenstein
46

Showalter, Elaine 177

Sickert, Walter 193

skin book 100

Smethurst, Thomas 137

Smith, Madeleine 140–6,
143
, 149, 150

Society of Connoisseurs in Murder 16

Somerville, Alexander

Eliza Grimwood
83–4

stage, recreating murders on 103–11

Stevenson, Robert Louis

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
188–90

Strachey, Lytton

Eminent Victorians
76

Strand Magazine
225, 227

Stratton, Alfred 207

strychnine 133, 135

Summerscale, Kate 155, 159

The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
157

Sûreté (French Security Brigade) 207, 208

Sutherland, John 169, 171

Sweeney Todd 74–5

Symons, Julian 254
n
267–8, 271

Tabram, Martha 189

Taylor, Alfred Swaine 134–5, 136–7, 201, 202

Taylor, John Russell 287

Thames Police 20, 25, 31–2, 36

Thames Police Museum 32

theatre, Victorian 107–11

Theatres Act (1843) 107

Theatres Royal 107

thief-taker 33–4

Thompson, Edith 283–5

Thompson, Frederick 291

Thompson-Bywaters case 283, 284–5

thriller genre 273, 289, 292

Thurtell, John 46–9, 50

Tichborne Claimant 170

Tiller-Clowes Company 104, 105

Times Literary Supplement
76

Times, The
43, 47, 117, 129

Titterton, W.R. 61

toxicologists 135–6

Turner, John 26

Tussaud, John Theodore 61

Tussaud, Marie (née Grosholtz) 51, 53, 56–62,
see also
Madame Tussauds

Unwin, John 36

Vance, Philo (fictional detective) 269–70

Vane, Harriet (fictional character) 253

Victoria & Albert Museum 104

Victoria Theatre 108

Vidocq, Eugène François 207, 208–9

Wagner, E.J. 203

Wallace, Edgar 223–4, 273

Wallace, Julia 261–3

Wallace, William Herbert 261–3

Wapping 20–1

watchmen 33, 35–6

Waters, Sarah

Fingersmith
177

Watson, Colin 268

Snobbery With Violence
268

Watson, Dr (fictional character) 199–200, 201, 204, 260

waxworks

anatomical 55

exhibitions of 55–6

and French Revolution 56–7

of kings and queen 54–5

see also
Madame Tussauds

Weare, William 47

Westminster Abbey 53–4

Whicher, Jack 154–5, 157, 158–9, 160, 161, 292

White, Bill 252

Whorton, James 128

Wild, Jonathan 34–5

Wilde, Oscar

The Picture of Dorian Grey
189

Williams, John 22–3, 25, 27–9,
27
, 32, 90, 127, 291

Williams, Ralph Vaughan 96

Williamson, John and Elizabeth 25–6

Wilson, Edmund 224, 268, 274–5

Wimsey, Lord Peter (fictional character) 253, 271, 272, 349, 349–51,
349

women 230

as poisoners 140–50

as police officers/detectives 218–19

Wood, Ellen

East Lynne
177

Wordsworth, Catherine 13

Wordsworth, William 10, 13

Wright, Willard Huntington Wright (S.S. Van Dine) 269–70

Wyles, Lillian 219

yellowback 215–16

I would like to express my sincere thanks to Judith Flanders, whose
The Invention of Murder
greatly influenced my own, and the BBC’s, approach to the subject. She was the consultant for the TV series and provided us with a key interview. I would also like to thank everyone on the ‘Murder team’ at BBC Bristol: Michael Poole, Alastair Laurence, Gerry Dawson, Rachel Jardine, Matthew Thomas, Chloe Penman, Jo Verity, Michelle Soldani, Fred Fabre, Kinita Echeverria, Michael Robinson, Paul Nathan, Simon Pinkerton, James Harrison, Glenn Rainton, Natasha Martin and Deborah Williams, and to our commissioner, Mark Bell. Likewise, at BBC Books, I’m awfully grateful to Albert De Petrillo, Kate Fox, Claire Scott, Richard Collins, Sarah Chatwin and all their colleagues. I have been a happy client at Felicity Bryan Associates for nearly a decade now, and am indebted especially Felicity herself and to Michele Topham. I dedicate this book with love to Mark Hines, who will be glad when we no longer need share our house with a horde of murderers.

Thanks, finally, to the readers and other history-lovers who constantly contact me through my website. You’re almost always a source of good cheer and encouragement. In the words of the oath of the Detection Club: ‘May your only problems be fictional and of your own devising, and may many years pass before you write, for the last time, The End.’

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