The last of the gentlemen thieves bows out

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The history of the aristocracy is intertwined with the fascinating history of hunting, Eleanor Doughty discovered while researching her most recent book

IF you’ve ever been on a boat trip along the River Dart in Devon, you may have heard the skipper point out Agatha Christie’s house, Greenway, on the hill overlooking the river. This is where the autho

Railways gave criminals a vast pool of people from which to target victims - and at the same time offered a new, fast means of escape and a chance to remain anonymous. TONY STREETER and GEORGE DENT don their deerstalkers and head back in time…

It’s 50 years since Agatha Christie died, but her crime fiction still captivates audiences old and new

KATIE HINDMARCH-WATSON describes a sex scandal that consumed Queen Victoria’s grandson On 7 July 1889, a policeman arrested a sometime telegraph boy, Henry Newlove, at his mother’s house in Camden Tow