Alexa Neale is Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in Historical Criminology at the University of Sussex, UK. She is currently researching crime narratives and the meaning of evidence in a project titled ‘Black Books: The Institutional Memory of Hanging and Mercy at the Home Office’.

• List of Illustrations1. Introduction: Encountering crime scenes2. ”Isn't Dinner Ready?”: Spatialising working-class home and marriage in Camden3. 'She Wore No Ring': Picturing sexual jealousy and provocation in Bloomsbury4. "The Love Hut": Perverting public/private boundaries in Knightsbridge5. "Murder Story": Telling 'Ripper' tales in Limehouse and beyond6. ‘Joseph Aaku's Cat’: Imagining home and race in St. Pancras7. "We've really hit the jackpot now, doll": Changing lives in North Kensington8. Conclusion: A place through crimeBibliographyIndex

In her forensic analysis of hitherto unseen photographs of domestic interiors that were crime scenes, Alexa Neale reveals the part they played in imagined narratives of murder presented in courtrooms. Her microhistories of individual cases, each framed by a compelling imaginative vignette, go beyond the crimes in question and give new insights into social class, gendered and racial identities revealed in the spaces and material culture of 20th century Londoners’ homes.