Neil R. Norman was born in 1972 in Ipswich, Suffolk, where he grew up with a fascination and passion for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his Sherlock Holmes mysteries. This is where the seeds were sown for him to undertake the solving of crimes from the Victorian and Edwardian periods.
With an enthusiasm for solving cases that have laid buried within police vaults for over a century, he has turned his hand to modern day sleuthing, using twenty-first century methods to investigate the interesting and now largely forgotten true crime cases in Britain's history.