title: Murders of the Black Museum: The Dark Secrets Behind a Hundred Years of the Most Notorious Crimes in Britain
author:  Gordon Honeycombe 
description: <div>Gordon Honeycombe is&#160;an actor and the&#160;author of Red Watch and Siren Song.</div>
zlib_text: Glasgow: The Real Mean City
  True Crime and Punishment in the Second City of the Empire
  Malcolm Archibald
  BLACK & WHITE PUBLISHING
  
  Contents
  Dedication
  Acknowledgements
  Epigraph
  Preface
  1 Victorian Cities, Glasgow and Crime
  2 Robbing the Paisley Union Bank
  3 Deadlier than the Male
  4 Environs of the City
  5 Bloody Assaults
  6 Amazing Jewel Robberies
  7 The Early Police Force
  8 That Frightful Locality
  9 Official Retribution
  10 The Poisoners
  11 Nautical Crime
  12 Orange and Green
  13 The Fraudsters
  14 Offences of a Sexual Nature
  15 Crimes Involving Children
  16 Riots
  17 A Medley of Murders
  18 Crimes of the Heart
  19 A Rash of Robberies
  Epilogue
  Bibliography
  
  Dedication
  FOR CATHY
  
  Acknowledgements
  I would like to thank the staff at the National Archives of Scotland; the
  Police Museum in Glasgow; and my wife, Cathy, for all their help and
  support in the writing of this book.
  
  A great city with a strong leaven of scoundralism in
  its population.
  — Glasgow Herald, 7 October 1850
  
  Preface
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