We continue our story in 18th century London with the criminal who would inspire Sherlocks Moriarty. twitter: the historical crimes and criminals podcast email: thehistoricalcrimespodcast@yahoo.com

In 18th Century Londons crimimal doings one man stands out. He was the organiser of half that was evil and half of infected crimes in London and became the inspiration for Sherlocks Moriarty. This is the story of Jonathon Wild.   twitter: the historical crimes and criminals podcast www.exclassics.com/newgate/ng175.htm

Merry Xmas everyone and its a Christmas bonus episode in the shape of the classic Sherlock Holmes christmas tale 'The Blue Carbuncle', first published in 1892. Its a tale of christmas forgiveness and a wonderful tale unfolds of criminal events.   

In 1942 Robert S James was the last man hanged in California. He was found guilty of the murder of his wife in a very unique way. twitter: the historical crimes and criminals podcast medium.com/the-true-crime-edition/rattlesnake-james-the-last-man-to-be-hanged-to-death-in-california-da63551fc2d2 www.geocities.ws/princessdiisdead/hangingb.html www.lamag.com/culturefiles/rattlesnake-killer-los-angeles-robert-s-james/ medium.com/the-true-crime-edition/rattlesnake-james-the-last-man-to-be-hanged-to-death-in-california-da63551fc2d2 www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-09-18-me-47332-story.html cattstruecrimecorner.com/rattlesnake/ murderpedia.org/male.J/j/james-robert.htm

The world is full of curiously named streets, none more so in historical Britain. In todays episode, we look at a few of these! twitter: the historical crimes and criminals podcast https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/british-street-names londontopia.net/site-news/featured/streets-london/ www.southernliving.com/travel/unique-street-names? https://lookup.london/weird-london-street-names-2/ Pickup Gilly, The A-Z of curious London: strange stories of mysteries, crimes and eccentrics, the history press, 2013 https://www.theintrepidguide.com/31-fascinating-origins-london-street-names/ https://livinglondonhistory.com/10-bizarre-but-brilliant-london-street-names/

In 1933 an England sporting team caused controversy with their tactics, sparking a diplomatic incident and damaging relations with Australia for many years. This is the story of 'Bodyline' twitter: the historical crimes and criminals podcast email: thehistoricalcrimespodcast@yahoo.com cricketlife.co.uk/the-bodyline-series-the-ashes-1932-1933/ www.itsonlycricket.com/bodyline-bowling cricketopinions.com/bodyline-bowling-bouncers-ashes-cricket-history/ www.sl.nsw.gov.au/stories/bodyline-cricket-series-1932-33 En.Wikipedia.org/bodyline www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/bodyline

Frederick Bailey Deeming was a man of many alias's. He was suspected by some of being Jack the Ripper and he was certainly a murderer and a conman. Twitter: the historical crimes and criminals podcast Todays story told with permission and thanks to Andrew Jago.  Follow his blog and twitter: Twitter: a janner darkly blog: ajannerdarkly.wordspress.com

The world has known many different types of clubs. In todays episode we dive in for a look at a few of these. twitter: the historical crimes and criminals podcast buy me a beer on ko-fi.com/historicalcrimespodcast The history of the london clubs, Edward ward. London 1709 patrickspedding.blogspot.com/2009/08/english-aphrodites-part-1.html https://www.hebergementwebs.com/top/top-10-strangest-clubs-in-history-the-club-sandwich-is-not-in-the-top www.atlasobscura.com/articles/unusual-clubs-in-history nineteenteen.blogspot.com/2010/11/where-boys-were-four-horse-club.html listverse.com/2016/08/08/top-10-bizarre-clubs-from-the-past/ pipiwiki.com/wiki/Gentleman%27s_Clubs vcz.s5.xrea.com/18th-century-london-club-for-beggars-who-faked-injury-and-sickness-to-avoid-work/

During WW2 the Allies devised an incredible plan to fool German Intelligence into thinking they would invade Greece instead of Italy. Twitter: the historical crimes and criminals podcast

During WW2 the Allies devised an incredible plan to fool German Intelligence into thinking they would invade Greece instead of Italy.  twitter: the historical crimes and criminals podcast email: thehistoricalcrimespodcast@yahoo.com Operation mincemeat, Ben Macintrye, Bloomsbury books, 2016 Deadly Deception, Denis Smyth, OUP Oxford, 2010 militarywiki/operationmincemeat