black museum
Summary: 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.
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Leather Bag. A payroll clerk is found murdered with the payroll cash he was carrying gone. The police manage to build a strong circumstantial case, but there are still a few bothersome incomplete details.
Letter. An unknown person is writing near perfect check forgeries and having dupes cash them so as to make it more difficult to trace.
Mandolin String. A womans husband dies when he falls down the basement steps. When her second husband dies in the same manner, a neighbor gets suspicious and sends an anonymous letter to Scotland Yard.
Meat Juice. In 1892, the wife of a hypochondriac twice her age with whom relations have become strained plots to poison him by extracting arsenic from flypaper and putting it in one of his tonics.
Meat Juice. In 1892, the wife of a hypochondriac twice her age with whom relations have become strained plots to poison him by extracting arsenic from flypaper and putting it in one of his tonics.
Notes. Three murders have been committed, and the linking factors are that a note saying -Kilroy was here- was left at all three scenes and the victims had all associated with a copyright solicitor.
Old Wooden Mallet. A flaming car is found with a body burnt beyond recognition. Tracking the license number, it is learned that the car belonged to a man with four wives, each in a different town.
Open Ended Wrench. A woman is found dead in a car wreck. What initially looks to be a case of drunk driving becomes murder when the coroner discovers bruise marks caused by a wrench.
Pair of Spectacles. A city girl disappears in a suspicious manner when she visits the rather worthless chicken farmer she is in love with.
Piece of Iron Chain. A young heiress has had an attempt on her life by someone pretending to be her fathers ghost. Naturally, the police suspect her next of kin, but discover that all three of them died within a few days of each other.
Notes. Three murders have been committed, and the linking factors are that a note saying -Kilroy was here- was left at all three scenes and the victims had all associated with a copyright solicitor.
Pink Powder Puff. A murderer about to be executed recounts to the warden the deeds that led to his sentencing, as well as a couple that were never tied to him.
Post Card. When a man finds his recently wed wife in her bedroom with her head severed, the investigation reveals a double life she had been leading which may have been behind her death.
Prescription. A woman in long-term care decides to leave a sizable chunk of her estate to the nurse who has cared for her. Most curiously, her health then takes a turn for the worse.
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