We have an image in our heads of Victorian Homicide Detectives, but what was the reality? Who were they? What murder cases shaped their history? What methods did they use? Were they anything at all like Sherlock Holmes?

Anthony Delaney takes Maddy Pelling on this journey through the history of the Victorian Homicide Detective.

Edited by Tim Arstall, produced by Freddy Chick.

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