1880 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceThe Man Whom One Would Have Asked for Directions
Victor Prévost: the authority accorded to the uniform
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1891 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceA Trunk Has a Better Memory than a Lover
Gouffé, Eyraud, Bompard: the objects and imagery of a celebrated cause
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1836 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceLacenaire: Crime Takes Up the Pen
A condemned man still demands the final word.
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1881 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · EnglandThe Watch in the Shoe
Mapleton: the object that confounds all explanations.
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1898 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceThe Shepherd Who No Longer Answered
A masterless flock leads to a body, then to a two-year investigation. Acro…
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1870 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceThe Family Awaited in Paris
In a field in Pantin, six bodies appeared beneath a farmer’s spade. The se…
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1749 · 18th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · ItalyA Gallows Waiting on Repentance
A property loan drove Antonio Camardella to slay his creditor, a Roman can…
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1909 · 20th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceHis Mother’s Fifty Francs
Madame Duchemin kept her hard-earned savings for her ailing daughter. The…
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1887 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceThe Jewels Had Left Paris
Three women slain on Rue Montaigne, a false lead in the investigation, and…
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1897 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceThe Town Knew Before Him
Louise never returned from her errand. A few months later, Versailles asse…
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1862 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceThe Survivor and the Ownerless Clothes
Marie Pichon refused to follow a stranger any deeper into the night; her f…
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1857 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceThe Jewels François Could Not Explain
A locked door on the Rue de Charenton led the police to a cook, and then t…
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1909 · 20th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceThe Farmer Who Never Left
Danvers maintained that the Donats had departed for Pierrelatte. Yet a wit…
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1909 · 20th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceJean Dorier’s Customers
They had purchased wine merely so that the door might be opened to them. T…
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1909 · 20th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FrancePollet: The Things That Remain
From pillaged farmsteads to the four condemned men of Béthune, the Pollet…
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1715 · 18th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · GermanyLips Tullian: The Letters the Magistrates Were Reading
An escaped thief believed he was conducting a secret correspondence from h…
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1783 · 18th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceThe Boy Lived in the Other Newspaper
A locked room, an escape, and a public execution: the gazettes recount the…
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1825 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceThe Executioner’s Doubt
Papavoine murdered two children. At his trial, a confession failed to reso…
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1889 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceThe Envelope from Saint-Quentin
A name upon an envelope drew the Sûreté from the shop of an assassinated s…
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1796 · 18th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceCésar Herbaux: The Two Doors
A forged warrant released a prisoner in Lille and sent Herbaux to the gall…
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1913 · 20th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · GermanyThe Wedding No One Attended
A farmhand announces his master’s sudden departure. Two locked-in daughter…
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1892 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceThe Mistress’s Toilette
Louis Anastay: a murder for coin, followed by a final battle for his own i…
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1840 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · EnglandThe Objects Had Not Left the House
Sarah Mancer believed she had chanced upon a burglary. Yet within her mast…
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1724 · 18th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · EnglandThe Man Whom Doors Made Famous
In 1724, Jack Sheppard broke out of London’s gaols only to return to the v…
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1733 · 18th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · EnglandThe Tankard in the Chamber
Three women dead in the Temple, a silver tankard brought to light, and a s…
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1806 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · EnglandThe Day the Thousand Pounds Fell Due
Isaac Blight awaited payment from his partner. On the evening the debt fel…
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1831 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceHe Who Kept the Others
Following the murder of a gaoler and his grandson, an inmate halts the fli…
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1830 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · EnglandThe Last Beat of Constable Long
London, August–September 1830. Police Constable Long is slain upon interce…
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1790 · 18th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · EnglandThe Second Life of Barrington
Following years of pickpocketing, George Waldron, who had assumed the name…
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1809 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · GermanyThe Post-Houses of the Final Road
En route from Dresden to Vienna, Dorothea Blankenfeld shared a carriage wi…
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1807 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · GermanyThe Secret Beneath the Floorboards
In 1807, Anna Eichstädter vanished after traveling to the Thomashof to dem…
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1817 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · GermanyThe Voice from the Cul-de-Sac
In February 1817, the goldsmith Christopher Rupprecht was mortally assault…
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1883 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · Germany (Munich)The Mark on the Wrist
Munich, March 1883. Following the theft of 9,310 marks from the royal Resi…
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1888 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceThe Valise of the Rue Pierre-Lescot
In March 1888, the antiquarians Rollin and Feuardent were plundered of a c…
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1887 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceThe Assumed Name of the Rue Tiquetonne
On December 31, 1887, a bank messenger was wounded in an apartment rented…
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1893 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · France and the United KingdomOn the Trail of Arton
Having first encountered the financier Arton towards the close of the wint…
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1887 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceThe Knife of Rue Legendre
Drawn from the retrospective memoirs of Marie-François Goron and the conte…
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1862 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceThe Seine Nine and the Footpad’s Trap
Paris, January 1862. Nine defendants stood before the Assizes of the Seine…
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1910 · 20th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · United KingdomThe Signal from the Montrose
In 1910, the disappearance of Cora Crippen led to the discovery of human r…
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1813 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · United KingdomOne Mailbag, Two Fugitives
Huffey White and Richard Kendall: the robbery of the Leeds mail at Higham…
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1897 · 19th century · souvenirs publiés
Police & Underworld · FranceThe Fugitive’s Supper
In his memoirs published in 1897, Goron recounts the escape of Grison and…
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1812 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · United KingdomThe Door in Bury Street
London, 1812 (inferred year). John Clayton and William Jenkins are apprehe…
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