It had already been hot on the commute in. It quickly worked its way past that, to hotter, and then to Oh-dear-lord-this-is-unbearable. I frowned at the sky as I headed home. When it was my turn to run the universe, things were going to be very different. But it wasn’t my turn yet, and I waded to...
It is a quarter to ten at night, yet as ‘She tore along the narrow pavement’ she found herself ‘elbowing the passengers from side to side; and darting almost under the horses’ heads, cross[ing] crowded streets, where clusters of persons were eagerly watching their opportunity to do the like’. It ...
Yet while she fits into the pattern of the poison panics of mid-century, no panic ensued. And while she was accepted as being the most prolific murderer since Burke and Hare, hers was not the name that people remembered when the most notorious murderer of the century appeared on the scene in 1888...
While Jake theoretically spent it with me, and technically we talked, in reality we both avoided saying anything of importance. He said he’d asked for the local divisional police’s report of the accident, and the statements all said the same thing: a woman driving a blue or green car, maybe a Vol...