investigation

Whatever happened to Caroline Lane? A Margate mystery

12 July 2025 9:00 am

How could a feisty middle-aged woman suddenly vanish from the seaside town without trace? David Whitehouse set out to discover

The assassination of Georgi Markov bore all the hallmarks of a Russian wet job

6 July 2024 9:00 am

The Bulgarian dissident sailed too close to the wind with his revelations about Tudor Zhivkov in 1978, provoking the dictator to enlist Russian help in eliminating him

Why are the German authorities so reluctant to believe in neo-Nazi attacks?

18 May 2024 9:00 am

When two fascist skinheads were seen fleeing from the murders of several Turkish shopkeepers in Nuremberg, the police continued to blame the ‘Turkish mafia’

Andy Warhol would have revelled in the chaos of his legacy

16 December 2023 9:00 am

Having signed fake screenprints as his own, Warhol left his work open to questionable rulings by an authentication board, causing collectors much frustration and expense

And on it goes

5 February 2022 9:00 am

A question looms throughout this book: is it better to die rather than experience the wrath of a publicly shamed…

More Miami vice

15 May 2021 9:00 am

Deep in Peru’s Amazon rainforest sits a desolate zone, stretching for miles and pockmarked with chemical-tainted water that glistens orange…

Kill or cure

24 August 2013 9:00 am

Charles Cullen, an American nurse, murdered several hundred patients by the administration in overdose of restricted drugs. Hospitals should be…