black museum

Little Blue .22. It appears that a high society woman had killed her boyfriend in a jealous rage. But when it comes to trial, the case turns out to be not as airtight as first thought.

Center Fire Bullet. Scotland Yard investigates the botched robbery of a jewelry store where someone was shot. Although they've managed to get a good idea of who did it, it'll be tough to get it to stick unless they find the weapons used in the robbery.

Bathtub. A man who secretly has multiple wives in different towns decides to thin out the harem and collect on the insurance policies by drowning them in their baths.

Gladstone Bag. A married man who has been seeing another woman is losing interest in her, so he hacks her up at an isolated beach house.

Brick Bat. The much older husband of a woman is found near death with his head smashed in. The prime suspect is the youthful gardener with whom she might have been a bit too friendly with.

Brass Button. A reclusive artist is found strangled and the only hint as to who did it comes from the brass button found nearby that is the kind found on Army uniforms.

Opening in 1875, the Crime Museum at Scotland Yard is the oldest museum in the world purely for recording crime. The name Black Museum was coined in 1877 by a reporter from The Observer, a London newspaper, although the museum is still referred to as the Crime Museum. The idea of a crime museum was conceived by Inspector Neame who had already collected together a number of items, with the intention of giving police officers practical instruction on how to detect and prevent burglary. It is this museum that inspired the Black Musuem radio series. The museum is not open to members of the public but is now used as a lecture theatre for the curator to lecture police and like bodies in subjects such as Forensic Science, Pathology, Law and Investigative Techniques. A number of famous people have visited the musuem including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Harry Houdini, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.

Canvas Bag. The body of a young woman is found hacked up and stuffed in a canvas sack from a local grocery warehouse. The police must now comb through hundreds of missing person reports to find out who the victim was.

Car Tire. Two thieves break into a garage and steal the new Evans inside. While driving off into the night, they get pulled over for speeding. Unable to prove ownership of the vehicle, they resort to shooting the unsuspecting constable.

Champagne Glass. A colonel's wife dies from what seems to be stomach trouble shortly after returning from a sanitarium. Suspicion is aroused when one of his creditors receives a box of candies from him that an analysis reveals contains arsenic.

The Hammer. A fellow posing as a repairman kills an elderly woman living alone and ransacks her house.

Faded Tartan Scarf. A professional criminal who specialized in burglaries and car thefts finds himself a bit out of his league when he kills the driver of a postal truck he had been attempting to hijack.

Four Small Bottles. A woman is weary of being stuck with her much older husband. So she has had purchased some chloroform, allegedly to administer to him as a painkiller for his stomach trouble.

French English Dictionary. A Frenchman with poor English is staying at an inn where he becomes infatuated with the landlords wife. After a while, the landlord dies from what the doctor later determines to be strychnine poisoning

Little Blue .22. It appears that a high society woman had killed her boyfriend in a jealous rage. But when it comes to trial, the case turns out to be not as airtight as first thought.