As recently as 1950, the Scottish pathologist John Glaister included in his text the tale of a man who was apprehended after having been seen to have unnatural intercourse with a duck, leaving us to w...
During World War II, a secret apartment in London was maintained by the office of the Special Operations Executive. Within it, operatives created false documents and designed elaborate disguises for u...
Edmond Locard ordered all the local organ grinders and their simian employees brought to his laboratory. A number of the monkeys, perhaps concerned about an infringement of their civil rights, resiste...
Fifty years before Sherlock Holmes first appeared, the Bow Street Runner had used the Sherlockian method of careful observation of trifles. The Randall matter was the first case of ballistic identificatio...
Passionately encouraged by her aunt, Marie married Charles and traveled with him to his home.She was shocked to discover that [the magnificent château] Le Glandier was actually a festering pile of cru...