Welcome to a rogues’ gallery of murderers and pirates, brazen bank robbers, and a fraud artist who fooled Halifax’s elite. A supporting cast includes a wise-cracking Cape Breton judge, legendary journalist-turned-politician Joseph Howe, circus showman P.T. Barnum, and future prime minister John Thompson. This collection of fifteen true tales of crime and justice drawn from across the province spans more than 150 years of Nova Scotia’s history, from a triple murder in 1791 at a farm near Lunenburg to 1947, when Angus Walters, skipper of the racing schooner Bluenose, was attacked in the pages of an American magazine. Filled with surprising twists and courtroom drama, these stories of greed, murder, and vengeance offer a window on the past.