Halloween 1861. A special train with two carriages steams across the Lake District at night on its w..

September 1940. As the Blitz takes its nightly toll on London and Hitler prepares his invasion fleet..

Who saw him die? I said the fly with my little eye. I saw him die. An astonishingly beautiful settin..

London 1881. Lily Raynor owner of the World's End Investigation Bureau is growing increasingly worri..

Ralph Delchard a soldier who fought at the Battle of Hastings and Gervase Bret a talented lawyer hav..

While watching the opera at La Fenice Nancy Tremayne is shocked to see a woman fall to her death. Bu..

London 1818. MP Sir Roger Mellanby attends a performance of Macbeth at Covent Garden featuring Hanna..

September 1940. The sun is shining and in the midst of the good weather Londoners could be mistaken ..

Three powerful Norman lords and a Saxon thegn watch their horses competing in a race near Woodstock...

The Hon Victor Glossop announces he is marrying an American widow Mrs Nicole Covington in the colony..

1936 in the Crown Colony of Singapore and the British abdication crisis and rising Japanese threat s..

Mirza is a known collaborator and blackmailer. When he is murdered in his garden clutching a branch ..

Ireland. AD 672. When news reaches Colg? King of Muman that his betrothed Princess Gelg?is has disap..

November 1853. Inspector Field has summoned his friends Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins to examin..

1933. Europe is a place of increasing fear and violence. Young British photographer Elena Standish i..