“The police response is found utterly lacking ... It establishes a Fingerprint Bureau at the tail end of the Victorian era in 1901,” says Read. “Fingerprints are complex.

During the Victorian era, it was considered inappropriate for men to touch a woman who was not their wife or an immediate family member. This made men policing women (at least of certain social ...

Mr. Lovesey would go on to write more than 40 mysteries, a quarter of them Victorian-era police procedurals. Over his half-century career, he won more mystery awards than there is space to list ...