Famous Cases of Scotland Yards Murder Squad - Tom Tullet

Murder is as old as Cain; but Scotland Yard's Murder Squad began only at the turn of the century. In that more innocent age the officers worked by gaslight, trusting to rudimentary equipment and a hunch. Now long experience and forensic science have vastly improved the Squad's expertise at cracking a case.

The only thing that hasn't changed is the age-old reliance on a detective's 'nose for the truth.

Tom Tullet, former member of the CID at Scotland Yard, is one of Britain's top crime reporters. he tells the history of the murder squad through its most famous cases., from the mild-mannered murderer, Dr Crippen, to London's most notorious thugs, the Kray brothers. It is a fascinating cloak and dagger tale of corpses in trunks and arsenic and old lace, and the gruesome workings of the criminal Underworld: true stories stranger and more compelling than Conan Doyle's fiction