In this era of forensic this and CSI that it would be easy to believe that the police have always had this crime solving toolkit. Not so and that's just one of things I liked about The Yard, not only is it set in a time when the police were ridiculed for their spectacular failure to catch Jack the Ripper but unless someone saw a murder take place they had no way of knowing who the killer was. Enter Dr Bernard Kingsley, pathologist but interested in concepts such as fingerprints, and traces of fibres on a dead man's clothing. The idea of bobbies travelling in pairs, the concept of informants all carefully woven into a cat and mouse game between a killer and Inspector Walter Day.
One more thing Alex Grecian doesn't come from England yet he conjures up the Victorian monster that was London in all its filthy glory.. Full review in June.
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