IT was just twenty-five years ago, on May third, my dears, that, for the second and last time, the case of the People of the State of New York (ever a naïve litigant) against Nan Randolph Patterson ...

Written by a young lawyer from New Zealand and set in Melbourne, Australia, "The Mystery of a Hansom Cab" was self-published in 1886 and its copyright then sold for 50 pounds to a group of speculators ...

In Australia's relatively short history as a nation, we have produced a few truly phenomenal cultural exports. The original Mad Max, for example, was produced in the late 1970s on a budget of about ...

In true Victorian style, you need only a few tantalizing details about Fergus Hume's The Mystery of a Hansom Cab to intrigue you. The 1886 murder mystery, part of an emerging genre of "shilling ...

The iconic two-wheeled horse-drawn cab, beloved of Victorian cabbies, was once as common a sight on London's streets as the black Hackney cab is today. Considering how popular it was, you would think ...

There's a really sad story about a Central Park carriage horse that died Thursday night in the NY Times today. Antonio Provenzano had be driving his horse Juliet and carriage on Thursday night, when ...