Casebook of the Yard

Inside the first-class compartment of a train, a man was murdered with a handkerchief over his face. The investigation ensued, so did a manhunt, and the documented very first Police sketch was released.

An in-depth chat about exactly how our Foursome Stole all of that gold and how, ultimately, they were taken down.

The Great Gold Robbery of 1855. Three sealed safes leave London Bridge bound for Paris. They arrive intact, untouched, and forty pounds light. No one can explain how. Scotland Yard sends its best detective into a case that refuses to break. Listen to Casebook of the Yard every Thursday on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

In September 1913, the most valuable pearl necklace in the world was found in a Highbury gutter by a man on his way to work. One pearl had already been given to a child as a marble. Ward had his men. The necklace had its ending. Neither went quite the way anyone expected.

In July 1913, a parcel arrived at 88 Hatton Garden with every seal intact. Inside, where sixty-one of the finest pearls in the world should have been, sat eleven lumps of sugar. Today, we get to meet the REAL Alfred Ward.

*start with part 1* if you haven't Ward returns to the Yard before the city wakes. No sergeant. No backup. Just a locked room, a young man who hasn't slept, and a five-year-old confession finally ready to come out.

"Detective Inspector Alfred Ward arrives at a dead man's workshop and finds it still running. This is where the Engineer's story begins and where mine does too. Fiction, but in service of something real. Part 1 of 3."

*Start with part 1 * The body on the viaduct. The note in the cab. The box won't stop ticking. Ward is being led somewhere and so are you. Part 2 of 3.

Oh, the good old Pinchin Street torso case. not quite publicized as much as I thought it should have. This is a good one and definitely a favorite of mine.