by Dr Angela Buckley | May 15, 2026 | The Adventures of Detective Caminada
Warning: contains references to child murder Detective Caminada didn’t investigate many murders during his thirty-year-long career in the Manchester City Police. He wrote about two desperately sad cases in his memoirs, to which he gave rather unemotional titles. The...
by Dr Angela Buckley | Apr 4, 2026 | The Adventures of Detective Caminada
My favourite Victorian detective is Jerome Caminada of the Manchester City Police, a super-sleuth and a real-life Sherlock Holmes. In 1889, he faced his greatest challenge; the Manchester Cab Mystery, for which he would need all the brilliant powers of deduction of...
