Working-class women often worked as private detectives in the Victorian era and Clara Layt’s work on the Strange Case of ...

Peter Lovesey, the crime novelist, who has died aged 88, was a pioneer of the period whodunnit, as the creator of the Victorian sleuth Sergeant Cribb.

From the beginnings of the modern detective story, there have been eccentric detectives. For instance, Sherlock Holmes never would have fit in with the typical late Victorian or Edwardian London ...

The party was raided by police, with all 47 attendees arrested, fined, outed and publicly shamed over what a detective called ...