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train to Victoria:
‘The Adventure of the Copper Beeches’ (1892), in
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,
p.260; ‘The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter’ (1893), in
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes,
pp.445–6.
individual’s operation: Lloyd’s,
‘Terrible Murder’, 26 October 1890.
at work again: The Times,
21 January 1890, p.3.
of these missives:
Frayling, ‘The House that Jack Built’, p.186.
compared with the print: The Times,
4 October 1888, p.10.

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something of the kind:
Doyle, ‘The Adventure of the Norwood Builder’, in
The Return of Sherlock Holmes,
p.52.
mechanism as they fall:
Guy Boothby,
The Lust of Hate
(London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1898).

The following newspapers and magazines have been the most heavily used. Other journals may have the occasional reference, but were not searched systematically:

Aberdeen Journal, Belfast News-Letter, Bell’s Life, Birmingham Daily Post, Brighton Patriot, Bristol Mercury, Caledonian Mercury, Champion, Cobbett’s Weekly Political Register, Daily News, Derby Mercury, Era, Examiner, Freeman’s Journal, Glasgow Herald, Graphic, Hampshire and Portsmouth Telegraph, Hull Packet, Illustrated Police News, Ipswich Journal, Jackson’s Oxford Journal, John Bull, Leeds Mercury, Liverpool Mercury, Lloyd’s Illustrated Newspaper, London Dispatch, Manchester Guardian, Manchester Times, Morning Chronicle, Newcastle Courant, North Wales Chronicle, Northern Echo, Northern Star, Observer, Pall Mall Gazette, Penny Illustrated Paper, Preston Chronicle, Reynolds’s Newspaper, The Times, Trewman’s Exeter Flying Post, Western Mail

Age, All the Year Round, Athenaeum, La Belle Assemblée, Bentley’s Miscellany, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Bow Bells, Boys of England, Boy’s Own, British Critic, Chambers’s Journal, City Jackdaw, Cobbett’s Magazine, Connoisseur, Cornhill, Court and Lady’s Magazine, Monthly Critic and Museum, Dart, Dramatic Magazine, Dublin Review, Edinburgh Review, Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine, Era Almanack, Examiner, Figaro in London, Fraser’s Magazine, Fun, Funny Folks, Gentleman’s Magazine, Household Words, Illustrated Chips, Judy, Knight’s Penny Magazine, Lady’s Cabinet of Fashion, Music and Romance, Licensed Victuallers’ Mirror, Literary Gazette, Lloyd’s Magazine, London Journal, Mirror of the Stage, Moonshine, Myra’s Journal of Dress and Fashion, New Monthly Magazine, New Wonderful Magazine, Once a Week, Owl, Penny Satirist, Pick-Me-Up, Punch, Racing Times, St James’s Magazine, Satirist, Sporting Gazette, Sporting Times, Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, Temple Bar, Theatrical Observer, Tomahawk

To keep the bibliography within manageable lengths, secondary works and trial transcripts that are cited only once in the text are for the most part not listed below.

The main collections of playbills cited in the text can be found in the Victoria and Albert Museum Theatre Collection, where they are catalogued by theatre, and the British Library, in particular shelfmarks 1889.b.10/6, 74/1875.b. (1–9), 840.m.31 (1–5) and Playbills 311–313.

The main collections of broadsides cited can be found in the British Library, in particular shelfmarks 11621.k.4, 74/1880.c.12 and 74/1880.c.20; the Bodleian Library, John Johnson Collection and the Broadsides Collection.

All unpublished playscripts cited come from the manuscripts submitted to the Lord Chamberlain’s Office for licensing. The surviving files after 1824 are now in the British Library. Published plays are listed individually in the notes; the bibliography contains only collections of plays.

The British Library holds a large collection of penny-bloods and later penny-publications, which are catalogued as the Barry Ono Collection. See Elizabeth James and Helen R. Smith,
Penny Dreadfuls and Boys’ Adventures: The Barry Ono Collection of Victorian Popular Literature in the British Library
(London, British Library, 1998). Many more survive as later, single-volume reprints. Those I have cited that have attributions – or probable attributions – are listed under their authors in the primary sources. The anonymous works I have used are:

The Boy Detective, or, The Crimes of London (London, Newsagents’ Publishing Co., [1865–6]) ‘Complete Sensational Library’, Reaping the Whirlwind: A Detective Story; The Demon

Detective; Mat the Marvel: A Detective Story (Nos. 7, 9 and 14, London, n.p., [1890?]) Maria Martin [sic]; or, The Red Barn Tragedy (London, J. Johnson, n.d.)

The Murderers of the Close: A Tragedy of Real Life (London, Cowie & Strange, 1829)

The New Newgate Calendar,
Containing the Remarkable Lives and Trials of Notorious

Criminals, Past and Present ([no place of publication, publisher, 1863–5]) Poisoners and Slow Poisoning: A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Cases of Poisoning (London, John Dicks, [1865])

The Poor Boys of London, or, Driven to Crime. A Life Story for the People ([London, Temple

Publishing Co., c.1866])
Purkess’s Library of Romance,
vols. I-III (London, G. Purkess, [?1853])

Purkess’s Penny Pictorial Play,
nos. 1–32 ([London, G. Purkess, 1858?])

Alderson, James, ‘Deaths from Poison’,
Lancet,
1, 19 January 1856, p.80

All the Year Round,
‘Street Terrors’, 8, February 1863, pp.533–8; ‘Policeman’ [poem], 2, 7 May 1859, p.36–7; ‘Detectives and Their Work’, 36, April 1885, pp.135–9; ‘Calamity Mongering’, 15, March 1866, pp.187–8

Amos, Sheldon, ‘Civilization and Crime’,
Fortnightly Review,
2, September 1865, pp.319–28

Ashton, John,
Modern Street Ballads
(London, Chatto & Windus, 1888) [Austin, Alfred] ‘Our Novels: The Sensation School’,
Temple Bar,
29, June 1870, pp.410–24;

‘Our Novels: The Fast School’,
Temple Bar,
29, May 1870, pp.177–94

Austin, Francis E., ‘The Medical Evidence of Crime’,
Cornhill,
7, 1863, pp.338–48

[Austin, W. S.], ‘Notes on Circumstantial Evidence,
Temple Bar,
1, December 1860, pp.91–8;

‘Some Curious Cases’,
Temple Bar,
2, April 1861, pp.131–40

Baker, H. Barton, ‘The Old Melo-drama’,
Belgravia,
50, May 1883, pp.331–9

[Banks, Percival W.], ‘William Ainsworth and Jack Sheppard’,
Fraser’s Magazine,
21, February 1840, p.227–45

Barham, Revd Richard H.,
The Ingoldsby Legends
([1837–40], London, Richard Edward King, [1893])

Barnard, Richard, The Life and Travels of Richard Barnard, Marionette Proprietor, ed. George

Speaight (London, Society for Theatre Research, 1981) Benson, Captain L., ed., The Book of Remarkable Trials and Notorious Characters. From ‘Half-Hanged Smith’, 1700 – To Oxford, who Shot at the Queen, 1840 (London, Chatto & Windus, [1871])

Bent, Superintendent [James], Criminal Life: Reminiscences of Forty-Two Years as a Police

Officer
(London, John Heywood, [1891])
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine,
‘Causes of the Increase of Crime’, 56, July 1844, pp.1–14

Blanchard, E. L., ‘History of the Princess’s Theatre’,
Era Almanack,
1876, pp.1–6; ‘History of the Surrey Theatre’,
Era Almanack,
1876, pp.6–10; Vanished Theatres’,
Era Almanack,
1877, pp.88–92

Bleiler, E. G., ed.,
Three Victorian Detective Novels
(New York, Dover, 1978) ‘Bon Gaultier’ [William Edmonstoune Aytoun & Theodore Martin],
Book of Ballads
(New York, Redfield, 1852)

Booth, Charles, ed.,
Life and Labour of the People of London
(2nd edn, London, Williams & Norgate, 1889–93)

Booth, Michael R., ed.,
English Plays of the Nineteenth Century
(Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1969–76)

—, Hiss the Villain: Six English and American Melodramas (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1964)

—, The Lights o’ London and other Victorian Plays (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1995) Borrow, George, Celebrated Trials, and Remarkable Cases of Criminal Jurisprudence.
(London, Knight & Lacey, 1825)

—
,
Lavengro; The Scholar – the Gypsy – the Priest
([1851], New York, Dover, 1991)

—
,
The Romany Rye
([1857], Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1984)

—
,
The Zincali; or, An Account of the Gypsies of Spain,
(4th edn, London, John Murray, 1846)

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth,
Birds of Prey
([1867], London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., n.d.)

—,
Charlotte’s Inheritance
([1868], London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., n.d.)

—,
One Life, One Love
(London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1890)

—,
Thou Art the Man
(London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., [1894])

—,
The Trail of the Serpent,
ed. Chris Willis ([1860], New York, Modern Library, 2003)—[first as ‘Lady Caroline Lascelles’, later as ‘anon.’],
The Black Band, or, The Mysteries of Midnight
([1861–2], London, George Vickers, 187[6-]7)

Browne, G. Lathom, and C. G. Stewart,
Reports of Trials for Murder by Poisoning… With Chemical Introduction and Notes on the Poisons Used
(London, Stevens & Sons, 1883)

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward,
Eugene Aram: A Tale
([1832] London, George Routledge & Sons, [n.d.])

—,
Lucretia, or, The Children of the Night
(Leipzig, Berh. Tauchnitz Jun., 1846)

—, Paul Clifford in Juliet, John, ed., Cult Criminals: The Newgate Novels, 1830–1847 ([1830],
Routledge, Thoemmes Press, 1998)

Caminada, Jerome, Chief Det. Insp.,
Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life in Victorian Manchester
([1895], Warrington, Prism Books, 1982–3)

Carlyle, Thomas and Jane,
The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle,
eds. Charles Richard Sanders, Clyde de L. Ryals, Kenneth J. Fielding et al. (Durham, Duke University Press, 1970–2005)

Catling, Thos.,
My Life’s Pilgrimage
(London, John Murray, 1911)

Cavanagh, Ex-Chief Inspector, Scotland Yard Past and Present: Experiences of Thirty-seven

Years
(London, Chatto & Windus, 1893)
Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal,
‘Felon Literature’, 515, December 1842, pp. 373–4; ‘Confessions

of an Attorney’, 355, October 1850, pp. 241–4

Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature,
‘Aids of Science in the Detection of Crime’, 633, February 1876, pp.101–3; ‘Our Detective Police’, 1, 22, May 1884, pp. 337–9

Clark, Alexander,
Reminiscences of a Police Officer in the Granite City, Thirty Years Since
(facsimile reprint, Aberdeen, Grampian Police Diced Cap Charitable Trust, 1995)

Clarke, Sir Edward,
The Story of My Life
(London, John Murray, 1918)

Clive, Caroline,
Paul Ferroll
([1855] Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1997)

Cobbett, William,
Rural Rides,
ed. Ian Dyck ([1830], Harmondsworth, Penguin, 2001) [Collins, Charles Allston], ‘Dramatic Grub Street’,
Household Words,
17, 6 1858, pp. 265–70; ‘Some Wild Ideas’,
Household Words,
1859, pp. 505–10; ‘The Unknown Public’,
Household Words,
18, 21 1858, pp. 217–22

Collins, Wilkie,
Armadale,
ed. John Sutherland ([1864–6], Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1995)

—, ‘Curiosities of Literature. I. The Unknown Public’; ‘Cases Worth Looking At. II. The