Found in the endless Haining archive, an article cut from The Union Jack Detective Supplement , undated but about 1925. Peter Haining was a ...

Found in the Haining collection - this article from 1936 on pickpockets. The author Louis Mansfield has much advice,most still relevant. T...

Found in the Haining archives - this slightly scaremongering article by Edgar Wallace  from Nash's Pall Mall Magazine in March 1931. Ed...

From the Peter Haining papers, this typed manuscript  by the great researcher and expert on British comics and periodicals W.O.G. ('Bill...

Found - a sensationalist paperback The Christie Case (Gaywood Press, London circa 1958). A rare non-fiction pulp by Ronald Maxwell - one of...

Found in a thriller from  the Donald Rudd collection of detective fiction, this preface to  The Poison and the Root (Jarrolds, UK 1950) by R...

From Robert Adey's Locked Room Murders (Ferret Fantasy, London 1979) Major discussions on the subject of locked room murders are to b...

Found in a sensational crime paperback The Big Con (Pocket Books, NY 1949) a press cutting dated 1975 - the obituary of an amazing conman/ ...

From a cult novel by old Etonian Robin Cook who later changed his name to Derek Raymond to avoid being confused with schlock novelist Robin ...

'A Victim'. CROOK FRIGHTFULNESS . Birmingham: Cornish, 1932; Birmingham: Moody Bros., revised edition, 1936. A strange and sli...

Part of a collection of press cuttings. This incident is (so far)  UBI   i.e. unknown by internet probably because it is from the defunct U...