Sherlock Holmes and the Ripper File
Since 1888 the gruesome crimes of Jack the Ripper have been a never-ending source of fascination to generations of professional, amateur, and armchair detectives. What is more, those murders are…
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Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Crippen
…home? How was Crippen tracked down, in a 3,000-mile sea-chase across the Atlantic to Canada? And why did Chief Inspector Walter Dew call it all “the crime of the century”?…
Sherlock Holmes and the Hilldrop Crescent Mystery
Some people, even today, think that Dr. Crippen was wrongly convicted and should never have been hanged for the murder of his wife, Belle Elmore. The incomplete remains found in…
The Adventure of the Bloody Tower
“For the very first time since I had met him, Mr. Sherlock Holmes let me down.” As a result, Dr. John H. Watson finds himself forced to accept, in 1883,…