When Robert Pomeroy a young undergraduate at Corpus Christi College finds a letter slipped under his..

Yorkshire 1930. Kate Shackleton arrives at the garden party with her niece Harriet to celebrate the ..

London 1929. In the darkness before dawn a London railway porter discovers a man's body as he unload..

When a heart attack forces Marcus fford Croft to retire from his chambers his daughter Miriam and so..

London August 1881. The World's End Investigation Bureau is thriving and Lily Raynor is delighted to..

December 1917. Ada Hobbes has cleaned for Dr Tindall for many years and begins this frosty morning l..

On a freezing winter's night the residents of Thorncroft House are roused from their beds by an unex..

October 1604. Plague has hit London and the theatres are closed. But the capital's loss is Plymouth'..

York railway station December 1925. Detective Inspector Jim Stringer is enjoying a pint in the Parlo..

1937. War with Germany is dawning and a civil war already raging in Spain. Split across political li..

In 1360 the Great Bridge over the River Cam is close to collapse. As arguments rage over raising the..

With his lordship's mental health failing management of his grand country estate has been assigned t..