LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Page 42: Metropolitan Police officers discover a body under the kitchen floor of Frederick and Maria Manning in Bermondsey, south London, 1844 (from Mysteries of Police and Crime by Arthur Griffiths)
Page 58: Floorplan of Road Hill House
Page 76: Map of the village of Road
Page 90: Map of area surrounding Road
Page 98: Inaccurate floor plan of Road Hill House, published in the Bath Chronicle, 12 July 1860 (courtesy Daniel Brown/ Bath in Time/ Bath Central Library)
Page 160: Map of central London
Page 206: Lady Audley and an alienist, from a serialisation of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret in the London Journal, 1863
Page 226: Constance Kent's confession, April 1865
Page 246: A postcard of Constance Kent, printed in 1865
Page 260: Female inmates of Millbank prison in the 1860s (from Memorials of Millbank by Arthur Griffiths)
Page 282: Map of Australia
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
Further sources are detailed in the Notes
PRIMARY SOURCES
Metropolitan Police, Home Office and court files
ASSI 25/46/8
HO 45/6970
HO 144/20/49113
MEPO 2/23
MEPO 3/61
MEPO 3/53
MEPO 3/54
MEPO 4/2
MEPO 4/333
MEPO 7/7
MEPO 21/7
Newspapers
The Bath Chronicle
The Bristol Daily Post
The Daily Telegraph
The Frome Times
The Morning Post
The News of the World
The Observer
The Penny Illustrated Paper
The Somerset and Wilts Journal
The Times
The Trowbridge & North Wilts Advertiser
The Western Daily Press
Journals
All the Year Round
The Annual Register
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal
House-hold Words
The Law Times
Once a Week
Books and pamphlets
A Barrister-at-Law, The Road Murder: Being a Complete Report and Analysis of the Various Examinations and Opinions of the Press on this Mysterious Tragedy, London, 1860
'Anonyma' (W. Stephens Hayward), Revelations of a Lady Detective, London, 1864
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth, Lady Audley's Secret, London, 1862
Cavanagh, Timothy, Scotland Yard Past and Present: Experiences of Thirty-Seven Years, London, 1893
Coleridge, Ernest Hartley, Life and Correspondence of John Duke, Lord Coleridge, London, 1904
Collins, Wilkie, The Woman in White, London, 1860
Collins, Wilkie, The Moonstone, London, 1868
Davies, James, The Case of Constance Kent, viewed in the Light of the Holy Catholic Church, London, 1865
Dickens, Charles, Bleak House, London, 1853
Dickens, Charles, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, London, 1870
House, Madeline and Storey, Graham, The Letters of Charles Dickens 1859–61, London, 1997
Hood, Edwin Paxton, The Case of Constance Kent, viewed in the Light of the Confessional, London, 1865
Forrester, Andrew, The Female Detective, London, 1864
Griffiths, Arthur, Secrets of the Prison House, London, 1894
Griffiths, Arthur, Mysteries of Police & Crime, London, 1899
Griffiths, Arthur, Fifty Years of Public Service, London, 1904
Hotten, John Camden, The Slang Dictionary; or, The Vulgar Words, Street Phrases, and 'Fast' Expressions of High and Low Society, etc, London, 1864
Huish, Robert, The Progress of Crime; or, The Authentic Memoirs of Maria Manning, London, 1849
James, Henry, The Turn of the Screw, London, 1898
Kenealy, Maurice Edward, The Tichborne Tragedy: Being the Secret and Authentic History of the Extraordinary Facts and Circumstances Connected with the Claims, Personality, Identification, Conviction and Last Days of the Tichborne Claimant, London, 1913
Kent, William, Guidebook to the Manchester Aquarium, Manchester, 1875
Kent, William, A Manual of the Infusoria: Including a Description of All Known Flagellate, Ciliate and Tentaculiferous Protozoa, British and Foreign, and an Account of the Organisation and Affinities of the Sponges, London, 1880–82
Lansdowne, Andrew, A Life's Reminiscences of Scotland Yard, London, 1890
Mayhew, Henry, London Labour and the London Poor, London, 1861
Mayhew, Henry, and Binny, John, The Criminal Prisons of London and Scenes of London Life, London, 1862
McLevy, James, The Casebook of a Victorian Detective, ed. George Scott-Moncreiff, Edinburgh, 1975, a selection from Curiosities of Crime in Edinburgh and The Sliding Scale of Life, Edinburgh, 1861
Poe, Edgar Allan, 'The Man of the Crowd' (1840), 'The Murders in the rue Morgue' (1841), 'The Mystery of Marie Roget' (1842), 'The Tell-tale Heart' (1843), reprinted in Complete Stories and Poems, New York, 1966
Saville-Kent, William, The Great Barrier Reef, London, 1893
Saville-Kent, William, The Naturalist in Australia, London, 1897
Stapleton, Joseph Whitaker, The Great Crime of 1860: Being a Summary of the Facts Relating to the Murder Committed at Road; a Critical Review of its Social and Scientific Aspects; and an Authorised Account of the Family; With an Appendix, Containing the Evidence Taken at the Various Inquiries, London, 1861
Ware, James Redding, The Road Murder: Analysis of this Persistent Mystery, Published in 1862, Now Reprinted, with Further Remarks, London, 1865
'Waters' (William Russell), Recollections of a Detective Police-Officer, London, 1856
'Waters' (William Russell), ed, Experiences of a Real Detective by Inspector 'F', London, 1862
SECONDARY SOURCES
Altick, Richard D., Victorian Studies in Scarlet, New York, 1970
Deadly Encounters: Two Victorian Sensations, Philadelphia, 1986
The Anatomy of Murder: Famous Crimes Critically Considered by Members of the Detection Club, London, 1936
Atlay, J.B., Famous Trials of the Century, London, 1899
Beer, Gillian, Forging the Missing Link: Interdisciplinary Stories, Cambridge, 1992
Boyle, Thomas, Black Swine in the Sewers of Hampstead: Beneath the Surface of Victorian Sensationalism, New York, 1988
Bridges, Yseult, Saint – with Red Hands?: The Chronicle of a Great Crime, London, 1954