Annalisa Quinn is a contributing writer, reporter, and literary critic for NPR. She created NPR's Book News column and covers literature and culture for NPR.
Jack Ketch, English executioner notorious for his barbarous inefficiency; for nearly two centuries after his death his nickname was popularly applied to all of England’s executioners. Ketch is believed to have received his appointment as public hangman in 1663. The first recorded mention of him
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10 Old-Timey Murders With Twists Worthy Of Sherlock Holmes
Victorian writers such as Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle invented the mystery story, and they had plenty of real-life material from which to draw their plots. In their shadowy world of horse-drawn vehicles, oil lamps, and binding proprieties, death could come suddenly one way or another.
10 The Case Of The Disappearing Passenger
One July evening in 1864, two men stepping into a first-class train compartment in Hackney, England, stumbled upon a scene of carnage. Blood on the seats and on the door but nobody within more specifically, no body within. Women in the next carriage even reported having been spattered with red droplets through an open window.
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