Gaslight Murder: 12 Gripping Victorian True Crime Books
The truth is grislier than fiction in these real-life accounts of mystery and murder from the Victorian era.
By
Elisabeth Tilstra & Shabana Bachu | Updated Aug 26, 2019 | Published Jul 7, 2015Jack the Ripper
By M. J. Trow
Charlie Peace
By Ben W. Johnson
The Napoleon of Crime
By Ben Macintyre
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Criminal Women, 1850–1920
By Lucy Williams and Barry Godfrey
The Case of the Chocolate Cream Killer
By Kaye Jones
Criminal Children
By Emma Watkins and Barry Godfrey
Poison Panic
By Helen Barrell
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
By Kate Summerscale
Did She Kill Him?
By Kate Colquhoun
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The Murder of Helen Jewett
By Patricia Cline Cohen
Mr. Briggs' Hat
By Kate Colquhoun
London 1849
By Michael Alpert
