Dr Nell Darby

Crime historian and author

Dr Nell Darby is a crime historian and writer, and the presenter of the CBS Reality series Murder by the Sea. Her latest book is Sister Sleuths: Female Detectives in Britain (Pen & Sword History, 2021)

Recent articles by Dr Nell Darby

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Nell Darby's historical cold cases The Hoxton Horror

A report about the murder from an edition of the Daily News and Westminster Gazette. Despite gaining national press coverage, the case is largely forgotten today.

Nell Darby's historical cold cases The parents who never recovered

Mary Sophia Money's brother, Robert Henry Money, is believed to have been the murderer 'Robert Hicks Murray'

Nell Darby's historical cold cases The Money Murders

An artist’s impression of Frances Saunders printed in an edition of the Weekly Dispatch, in which she was incorrectly named ‘Mrs Francis’

Nell Darby's historical cold cases The strange case of 'Mr Francis'

A street in Whitechapel: the last crime of Jack the Ripper, from 'Le Petit Parisien', 1891.

Historical cold cases Murder in the year of the Ripper

Mrs Louisa Lee, a widow who went missing from Margate, Kent in 1939.
She left a boarding-house in the Cliftonville area of Margate to go to London but was never seen again.

Historical cold cases The mystery of the vanishing widow

An unhappy looking woman on trial in a British Victorian court. From ‘The Graphic - An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper’ from 4th March 1882. ‘The Graphic’ was published by Illustrated Newspapers Ltd as a rival to ‘Illustrated London News’. (Picture by GettyImages)

Historical cold cases with Nell Darby The mystery of Miss Lamond