The Euston Square Murder Mystery
Victorian London’s lodging houses were notorious for gossip, scandal, and murder.
11 min readFeb 9, 2021
As described best by Charles Dickens, Victorian-era London was a starkly split city. On one side of the coin, it was a city of grandeur and riches. The glitz and glamour of the West End, society ladies sipping champagne in Soho, dapper gentlemen smoking cigars in Mayfair.