This book is a factual account of crimes committed in Croydon. It stretches back to the century before last. Two things seem strange to modern readers. People run out of the house and find a policeman almost immediately. People call the doctor and the doctor comes round to the house. Not these days!
In some cases, the murderer's identity will never be known but there are some suspects for the reader to consider.
In some cases the murderer is caught red handed and confesses to the crime on the spot so there is no need for a detective to exercise the little grey cells.
One interest for me was the number of locations in Croydon which I recognised but had no idea they had been crime scenes. The other books in the series, which cover 17 locations, would be of interest to locals for the same reason.
One crime will be familiar to many people. It has been the subject of a number of books and a TV series. The Craig and Bentley case is treated fairly and even-handedly in the final story in this book.
Overall, this is a very interesting read but it is about real life so it does not have the neat resolution you would get from a fictional detective story.
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