In Wilkie Collins’s 1868 mystery novel, The Moonstone, the otherwise respectable household steward Gabriel Betteredge finds himself gripped by a powerful—but, it seems, not altogether ...

Michael Sims, editor of The Dead Witness, resurrects long-forgotten Victorian crime writing. With his pipe, deerstalker hat and formidable "methods," Sherlock Holmes may be the most recognizable face ...

"You're a bad, wicked boy," Robert Coombes' aunt tells himwhen the decaying body of his mother is discovered in her bedroom, 10 days after he stabbed her. Readers attuned to Kate Summerscale's ...

Garrotting and the murders of Jack the Ripper provoked nation-wide panics during the 19th century. Were the Victorians right to think that crime was in decline? The Victorians had faith in progress.

The number of full-time cops on the beat has dropped by nearly 200 since Jacinta Allan took the state’s top job.

Crime rates in Victoria have climbed to a record, driven by a surge in thefts, and the number of Victorian victims of crime has reached a quarter of a million. The latest Crime Statistics Agency data ...

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Australia’s peak retail body is “deeply concerned” about the surging crime rate on Victorian retailers, with major supermarkets labelling the state as the worst in the country. A day after Victoria ...

With his pipe, deerstalker hat and formidable "methods," Sherlock Holmes may be the most recognizable face of the Victorian mystery story. But how does he stack up against Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste ...