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1880s: Explore Victorian London – the sights sounds and smells. Be there at the moment when The Murder Squad is born
The Yard
What you need to know before your trail
Victorian London is a cesspool of crime, and Scotland Yard has only twelve detectives known as “The Murder Squad” to investigate countless murders every month. Created after the Metropolitan Police’s spectacular failure to capture Jack the Ripper, The Murder Squad suffers rampant public contempt. They have failed their citizens. But no one can anticipate the brutal murder of one of their own . . . one of the twelve . .
Travel Guide
Walk along the streets of London highlighted with gaslights, watch out for the passing Hansom cabs make your way to Scotland Yard where the Murder Squad is born.
This is the story of Victorian London following the horrific murders of Jack the Ripper. This was a difficult time for many but most of all for the police who hadn’t managed to solve the most horrific murders the city had ever witnessed . The process of DNA detections and CSI were still very much in its infancy and so police investigations and the role of police work was very different to what it is today.
The Victorian London era made the story that bit more interesting and exciting. Although dark at moments, there were many chinks of human kindness which shone through particularly in the character of Kingsley the pathologist. Different attitudes of people back then and the shocking levels of social depravation really made the novel even more vivid.
According to the book, the murder squad of Scotland yard was set up due to the public losing trust in the police following Jack the Ripper and that fact that a policeman had been murdered. Times were changing and so was the nature of policing.
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