The Entertainment of Murder - London, Murder, and the Making of Scotland Yard

Victorian London – a grim-dark, pre-noir city of violence and murder. Except it wasn’t. London was safer than most first-world countries today, yet newspapers and broadsides sensationalized every murder, gruesome or not, and the public consumed them all. However, without the entertainment of murder London’s Scotland Yard would have never been created. This is that story.