Detective Jerome Caminada was a Victorian super-sleuth and a real-life Sherlock Holmes. A master of disguise and an expert in deduction, he pursued ruthless criminals through the dangerous streets of nineteenth century Manchester’s underworld.

Detective Caminada’s biographer, Angela Buckley, presents a second anthology of his most intriguing cases, which includes fraudsters, arsonists, burglars and child killers. In the second volume of his memoirs, published in 1901, Detective Caminada recounted how he tackled the notorious scuttles, tracked Fenian dynamite conspirators and solved the Manchester Cab Mystery. Bearing all the hallmarks of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, this is a real treat for lovers of historical crime.