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Jerome Caminada and the Ghost in the Piano Case

When the orchestra's sheet music began to vanish at the Free Trade Hall, Victorian's Manchester's ace detective fine tuned a clever way to catch the thief

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Dean Kirby
Oct 05, 2024
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Manchester detective Jerome Caminada is said to have been used by Arthur Conan Doyle as a model for his fictional super-sleuth Sherlock Holmes.

He became a celebrity towards the end of Victorian era for his habit of using disguises and clever tricks to outwit the smartest of Mancunian villains.

And there was one case in particular that would have made eve…

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