Almost a quarter of a million Victorians became victims of crime in the past year, with the number of criminal offences ...

In Wilkie Collins’s 1868 mystery novel, The Moonstone, the otherwise respectable household steward Gabriel Betteredge finds himself gripped by a powerful—but, it seems, not altogether ...

The rate of crime per head of population is up 9 per cent, reaching its highest recorded figures in two decades, as retail crime climbs 28 per cent.

A group of 6600 repeat offenders was responsible for a quarter of all crimes in Victoria in the 12 months to September.

Michael Sims, editor of The Dead Witness, resurrects long-forgotten Victorian crime writing. With his pipe, deerstalker hat and formidable "methods," Sherlock Holmes may be the most recognizable face ...

Businesses see the land tax increases as part of a ploy to bail out the government as debt climbs at a rate of $48 million a day. Manufacturers are being forced to “absorb Victoria’s debt burden”, Ms ...

"You're a bad, wicked boy," Robert Coombes' aunt tells himwhen the decaying body of his mother is discovered in her bedroom, 10 days after he stabbed her. Readers attuned to Kate Summerscale's ...

With his pipe, deerstalker hat and formidable "methods," Sherlock Holmes may be the most recognizable face of the Victorian mystery story. But how does he stack up against Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste ...