Twenty-four fascinating real-life cases, grippingly recounted by Damon and Rowan Wilson. Among many others the collection includes the stores of:
- Alfred Arthur Rouse, the travelling salesman who was described as having had "more unsavoury love affairs around the countryside than he could remember", who burned a homeless man to death in his car to fake his own death in an attempt to escape his complicated life.
- King Ananda VII of Siam, who died from a gunshot wound to the head aged only twenty. The bedchamber page who found his body shouted that the king had shot himself, but had he really?
- Gay Gibson, the attractive, brunette twenty-one-year-old who may have been murdered but was certainly pushed from a porthole of the 'SS Durban Castle' steaming off the African coast between Cape Town and Southampton.
- George Joseph Smith, who drowned three of his brides in their baths by grabbing their ankles and dragging them suddenly under water, thereby forcing water up their noses.
- Staff Sergeant Boshears, a US airman based in Britain, acquitted of killing young Jean Constable as he claimed he had strangled her in his sleep.
