A Very British Murder (38 page)

Austen, Jane 277

Northanger Abbey
70

Baffle Book, The
261

Baker, William 137–8

Balham Mystery 146–9

ballads 97

Bally, William 138

Bartlett, Adelaide 149

Beerbohm, Max 54

Bell, Dr 201

Bennett, Alan 268

Bermondsey Horror (1849) 113–24

Bernth, Piv 292

Bertillon system 206, 207

Bethlehem Hospital 44–5

biographies, murderer 2–3

Black Mask
(magazine) 280

Blackwood’s Magazine
15

Blake, Joseph ‘Blueskin’ 34–5

Blake, Nicholas

A Question of Proof
270

Bloody Code, The 122

Bloomsbury set 76

body-snatchers 75

Bonati, Minnie 209–10

Bond, James 5, 273

Bose, Hemchandra 206

Bow Street Runners 35, 215

Brabazon, James 254

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth 164, 179–86,
183

Aurora Floyd
184

background and early life 179–81, 186

Lady Audley’s Secret
177, 181–5

Bravo, Charles 147–9

Bravo, Florence 146–9,
147
, 150

Brett, Simon 266

Bricks (actor) 109–10

Broadchurch
(TV series) 292

broadsides 64, 65–9

confessions of murderers in 68–9, 94–5

reports on crime 65–6, 67–8

selling of by paterrers 66–7

Brontë, Branwell 15

Browning, Robert 209

Buchan, John 226

The Thirty-Nine Steps
226, 227

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward 49, 73–4

Eugene Aram
73

Pelham
73

Burke and Hare 75

Burney, Ian 137

Bury St Edmunds Museum 94, 99, 100, 101

Bywaters, Freddy 284, 291

Calendar of Horrors
71

Campion, Albert (fictional detective) 159, 232, 270, 271

Carlyle, Thomas 49, 50

Carnell, Jennifer 185

Carroll, Lewis 193

Catnach, James 48

ceramic figurines 98–9

Chamber’s Edinburgh Journal
60

Chandler, Raymond 262–3, 274, 280–1

The Big Sleep
281–2

‘The Simple Art of Murder’ 276

Charles II, King 54

Chase, James Hadley

No Orchids for Miss Blandish
289–90

Chesterton, G.K. 229, 258, 263

cholera epidemic (London) (1849) 113

Christie, Agatha 224, 230, 233, 235–43,
237
, 258, 270–1, 272

attack on by Wilson 274

criticism of books 236–7

‘The Disappearance’ 238–40,
239

getting plot ideas 242

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
228, 259, 268–9

The Mysterious Affair at Styles
242–3

personal life 233, 235–6, 238

secret of success 243

shunning of limelight 241

and writing 241

Clarence, Duke of 193

Cleft Chin Murder (1944) 290–1

Cluedo 261

Cobbett, William 51

Coetzee, J.M. 282–3

Coleridge, William 16

Collins, Wilkie 156, 164–77,
165

Armadale
160, 169–74, 176

friendship with Dickens 168

marriage law campaign 172–3

mistresses 173–4

The Moonstone
160–1, 164–7

Opium use 167–8

The Woman in White
164, 169

Conan Doyle, Arthur 138, 194, 199–205, 201, 225–6, 229, 238, 260

‘The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot’ 204–5

The Adventure of the Norwood Builder
207

The Adventures of the Speckled Band
138

His Last Bow
204, 226

The Hound of the Baskervilles
226

medical training 201

short stories in
Strand Magazine
225

A Study in Scarlet
199–201, 202–4

see also
Holmes, Sherlock

constables 32–3, 35, 36, 38, 40

Cook, John Parsons 132–3,
133
, 136

Corder, William 3, 92–101,
95
, 104, 109

corpses, dissection of by medical students 94, 197–8

costermongers 72

Cotton, Mary Ann 130

Cournos, John 251

Cowper, William 45

Cox, Jane 148

crime scene, visiting of by public 43–6

Criminal Justice Act (1948) 272

criminal records 205–6

Crippen, Dr 4

Critchley, T. A. 37

Crofts, Freeman Wills 229

Crone, Rosalind 65, 66, 77, 106–7, 109

Crowe, Catherine

The Adventures of Susan Hopley
212–15

Cuff, Sergeant (fictional character) 160–1

Curtius, Philippe 56, 57

De La Mare, Walter 49

De Quincey, Thomas 3, 9–18, 49, 63, 291

Confessions of an English Opium Eater
9, 14–15

friendship with Wordsworth 13

‘On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts’ 2, 15, 16–18, 19, 20–1, 24, 28, 127

opium use 10–11, 13

personal life 12–14, 15

Detection Club 257–8, 261, 263–6

and Eric the Skull 263–4, 266

initiation ceremony 263–5

members 258

and murder of Julia Wallace case 262–3

regulations on writing detective fiction 258–60

detection game 258–61

Detective Branch (Metropolitan Police) 158, 159

boosting of image of by Dickens 85, 159

damage done to standing of 159

establishment of 41, 85

detective fever 156–61

detective fiction

and class 271

criticism of 274–5

depiction of servants in 270–1

Detection Club regulations on writing 258–60

Golden Age of 167, 223–33, 269

snobbery with violence 267–77

Dickens, Charles 49, 79–90, 108
n
, 119, 214–15

articles on the Metropolitan Police in
Household Words
84–6

Bleak House
3, 89, 119–20

and Detective Branch 85, 159

fascination with crime 80

friendship with Collins 168

interest in social justice 84–5

‘The Modern Science of Thief-Taking’ 85

Oliver Twist
82–3, 84

‘On Duty with Inspector Field’ 87–9

opposition to public hangings 79–80, 120–2, 123

tour of St Giles 87–9

witnesses hanging of Maria Manning 79, 119, 120

divorce 159

Doren Stern, Philip Van 279

education 65

Elstree Murder (1823) 46–51

Elstree Murder Tour 48–50

Enlightenment 55

Esdaile, Mrs 175–6

Faber, Michel

The Crimson Petal and the White
88
n

Family Oracle of Health, The
15

‘Fancy, The’ 46

female detectives 4, 211–19

fictional 211–18

female poisoners 140–50

Field, Inspector 86, 86–9, 90, 132, 158

Fielding, Henry 35, 36

An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers
35

Fielding, Sir John 36

fingerprints 206–7

First World War 227, 267

Flanders, Judith 19, 35–6, 82, 144, 180-1, 188
n
, 193

Fleming, Captain Oswald 254–5

footprints 208

forensic science/scientists 195, 197–8

and Bell 201

and Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes 199–204

and criminal records 205–6

and fingerprints 206

and Sûreté (French Security Brigade) 208

Forrester, Andrew 215

The Female Detective
212, 215, 217

Forshaw, Barry 243

franchise, extension of 39

French Security Brigade (Sûreté) 207, 208

Gammon, Vic 96

Gatrell, V.A.C. 65, 123

Gielgud, Val and Marvell, Holt

Death at Broadcasting House
269

Gladden, Mrs 217, 218

Gothic novel 69–71

Graves, Caroline 173–4

Great Reform Act (1832) 38

Greene, Graham 5, 273, 282–3

Brighton Rock
282

Grimwood, Eliza 83–4

Gully, Dr James 146–7, 148, 149

Hacque, Azizul 206

Haill, Cathy 104

Hammett, Dashiell 280

hangings, public 2, 77, 118–19

decline 58, 65, 122–3

Dickens’ opposition to 79–80, 120–2, 123

as entertainment 118–19

last (1868) 124

of Maria Manning 3, 79, 118–19

Newgate as site of 80

hard-boiled detective 279–80

Harriott, John 36

Hartman, Mary 150

Hays Code 286

Hayward, W.S. 215

The Revelations of a Lady Detective
215, 216–17

Henry, Edward 206

Herapath, William 136, 137, 201

Himmler, Heinrich 210

Hitchcock, Alfred 283–7

The Lodger, A Story of the London Fog
286–7

Murder!
285

Hitchen, Charles 34

Holmes, Sherlock (fictional detective) 4–5, 138, 194–5, 207, 208, 225–7

first appearance 194

incarnation on TV screen 292

and Jack the Ripper 194

killed off and brought back from dead 224–5

relationship with Watson 204–5

in
A Study in Scarlet
195, 199–201, 202–3

see also
Conan Doyle, Arthur

Hopley, Susan (fictional female detective) 212–14

Hornung, E.W. 227

Horton, Charles 31–2

Household Words
85, 129

Hubbard, William 83, 84

Ingatestone Hall (Essex) 182

interior decoration 98–9

It’s A Wonderful Life
(film) 279

Jack the Ripper 61, 187–8, 189, 192–5, 286, 292

James, P.D. 26–7, 37, 230, 231, 243, 252, 275–6

Jekyll and Hyde 188–923

Jews 272

Jewsbury, Geraldine 167

Johnson, Kathryn 215

Judgement of Death Act (1823) 122

Kent, Constance 152–3, 154–5,
154
, 158

Kent family 151–8

Killing, The
(TV series) 292

Kitchin, C.H.B. 294

Knox, Monsignor Ronald 258, 274

Lacassagne, Alexandre 204

Lamb, Lady Caroline 73

L’Angelier, Pierre Émile 140–2

laudanum 11

Lees, William 67–8

libraries 229

Lindop, Grevel 16

literacy, rise of 64–5, 77

Lives of the Most Notorious Highwaymen, Footpads, Etc
71

Lloyd, Edward 72

Lord Chamberlain 110–11

Macaulay, Thomas Babington 51

McCall Smith, Alexander 211–12

MacGuffin 285–6

McWhirter, Alex 99

Madame Rachel 174–6

Madame Tussauds

Chamber of Horrors 3, 4, 57–8, 60–1, 120

educational element to 59–60

establishment of in Baker Street 58

Maria Manning waxwork 120, 121

modellers at 61

Manning, Frederick 66, 79, 113–20, 127

Manning, Maria 66, 113–20, 127

basing of Hortense character in
Bleak House
on 89, 119–20

execution of 3, 79, 118–20

Madame Tussaud waxwork of 120,
121

Mansel, Henry 164

Mansfield, Richard 189–92, 193

Marlowe, Philip (fictional detective) 280–1

Marr, Timothy and Celia 20, 23–5, 27

marriage 159

Married Women’s Property Act (1870) 147

Marsh, James 129

Marsh, Ngaio 229, 231–3, 245, 264

A Man Lay Dead
231

A Surfeit of Lampreys
271

Marsh Test 129, 134

Marten, Maria 3, 91–101, 103–5, 109–10, 127

Matrimonial Causes Act 159–60

Maxwell, Gordon S. 50

Maxwell, John 86, 181, 182

Mayhem Parva 268, 273, 276

Mayhew, Henry 66, 72, 74, 87

Medical Gentlemen 135–7

melodrama 106–11, 163

mementos, murder 3, 99–101

Metropolitan Police 116

creation of 37–8

Crime Museum 209–10

and Detective Branch
see
Detective Branch

establishment of Fingerprint Bureau 206–7

organisation of 39

patrol of ‘Peelers’ 39–40

training museum 207

uniform 40

writing of articles on by Dickens 84–5

middle-class murderers 4–5, 128–38

Milne, A. A. 258, 260

Morland, Catherine 70

mortuary, Victorian 197

‘Murder of Maria Marten, The’ (ballad) 95–7

murder rate 127–8, 223

murder reporting 28
see also
broadsides

Mysteries of the Courts of London, The
82

New Yorker
274

Newgate Calendar
80, 82

Newgate Novels 80–2, 83, 163

Newgate Prison 80,
81

nightwatchmen 33

Nilsen, Dennis 210

O’Connor, Joseph 114–15

Oliver Twist
(play) 110

Olney, George 31

opium/opium-eating 10–12,
12
, 167–8

Orczy, Baroness 258

Orwell, George 289–90

Animal Farm
289

‘Decline of the English Murder’ 1, 2, 289–91

Palmer, Dr William 130–7,
131
, 138, 199, 209, 291

Paschall, Mrs (fictional female detective) 217, 218

patterer 66–7, 95

Pearcey, Eleanor 58–9

Peel, Sir Robert 38, 39

Peelers 38, 39–41
see also
Metropolitan Police

peepshow 103–4

Penny Bloods 70–3, 84

Penny Dreadfuls 74, 180–1

Penny Magazine
65

Perceval, Spencer 23, 36–7

Peterloo Massacre (1919) 40

phrenology 60–1, 94, 138, 143

Pilbeam, Pamela 55, 58

Pinkerton agency 280

Poirot, Hercule (fictional detective) 159, 227, 241–2, 271, 292

poisoning/poisoners 129–38

and antimony 148, 149

and arsenic 128–9, 134, 142

female 140–50

and Florence Bravo 146–9,
147
, 150

and Madeleine Smith 140–6,
143
, 149, 150