Antony M. Brown

October 1947. A luxury liner steams over the equator off the coast of West Africa and a beautiful actress disappears from her cabin. 

Suspicion falls on a dashing deck steward with a reputation for entering the cabins of female passengers. When the liner docks at Southampton, the steward is questioned by police. Protesting his innocence, he makes an astonishing admission that shocks everyone, and is charged with murder. His trial at the historic Great Hall in Winchester draws the world's media. He is found guilty and sentenced to hang. But was the verdict sound? Many believe not. Now, for the first time, Antony M. Brown has secured unprecedented access to the police file, allowing the definitive story to be told.

In the summer of 1919, a young woman is found dead in a lonely country lane. She was last seen with a man on a green bicycle, who seemingly vanishes into thin air...Now, dramatic evidence is revealed for the first time, including a vital statement hidden in a police safe for decades and the forgotten testimony of a key witness. But does it solve the case or deepen the mystery?

Liverpool, 1931. A telephone message is left at a chess club, instructing one of its members, insurance agent William Wallace, to meet a Mr Qualtrough. But the address given by the mystery caller does not exist and Wallace returns home to find his wife Julia bludgeoned to death. The case turns on the telephone call. Who made it? The police thought it was Wallace, creating an alibi that might have come from an Agatha Christie thriller. Others believe Wallace innocent but disagree on the identity of the killer. The Cold Case Jury must decide what happened in one of the most celebrated cold cases of all time. Can you help solve the murder?

1876. When newlywed barrister Charles Bravo ingests a rare poison, all evidence suggests suicide. But in the infamous inquest, a coroner finds it to be an unlawful murder. So, we must ask, what is the truth? Brown compiles the evidence and creates dramatic reconstructions of four main theories of how Charles Bravo may have died - including Agatha Christie's solution, in her own words, for the very first time.