Victorian-supersleuth.com Website Review

Detective Jerome Caminada, of the Manchester City police force, was a true Victorian super sleuth and a real-life Sherlock Holmes. A master of disguise and an expert in deduction, he tracked shady characters and nefarious criminals through his city’s dark underworld, including desperate thieves, clever con artists, expert forgers and even coldblooded murderers. A poor… One of my favourite crime history heroes is Alphonse Bertillon, the French criminologist who began as a humble clerk and ended up developing a system for identifying criminals that was used worldwide. Alphonse Bertillon was born in Paris on 24 April 1853. Despite his father being an accomplished statistician (and later his younger brother Jacques),… My first research trip for my PhD study into Victorian detectives was to Liverpool, where I followed in the footsteps of my favourite Victorian author Charles Di*kens, who had explored the city 160 years earlier. (Click on image to read full post) Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.