Case file 036Crime & Mystery
The Spy in the Bag
The coroner thought an intelligence officer found dead in a padlocked holdall had probably been killed, but the police concluded he died alone.
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Case file 023Power & Secrets
Guy Fawkes - The Fall Guy?
A plan to blow up King James and Parliament was foiled by an anonymous letter, but how much did the government know before it arrived?
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Case file 021Forgotten Histories
A Wonder from Godalming
Mary Toft’s supposed rabbit births fooled the king’s surgeons and made her a national joke, but the doctors wrote down far more than she ever got to say.
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Case file 011Forgotten Histories
The Stone That Wouldn’t Sink
Victorian engineers sealed an ancient obelisk inside an iron cylinder and towed it towards London, but was its disastrous voyage cursed or simply mismanaged?
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Case file 010Culture & Legends
The Play That Fooled London
Shakespeare’s supposed lost papers made a young law clerk the talk of literary London, until his newly discovered play faced an audience.
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