The Casebook
True mysteries from history, told for armchair detectives. Real cases, real clues, and the arguments that never ended.
Cases the archive never closed.
Conviction quashed
The Wallace Case
A phone message, an address that didn't exist, and the most argued-over alibi in Britain.
Acquitted
Lizzie Borden
A hot morning in Fall River, a burned dress, and the most famous acquittal in America.
Unsolved
The Hall–Mills Murder
A rector, a choir singer, scattered love letters, and a witness called the Pig Woman.
Acquitted
The Pimlico Mystery
A stomach full of chloroform, no burns at all, and a question science couldn't answer.
Identified
The Somerton Man
A stranger on a beach, a scrap of Persian poetry, and a code nobody has cracked.
Explained
Agatha Christie's Eleven Missing Days
The Queen of Crime vanishes, and Britain turns detective to find her.
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