December 1940. Down Street underground station in the heart of London's Mayfair is now a secret retr..

Disgraced former Foreign Office clerk Laurence Jago and his larger-than-life employer the journalist..

Bombay 1950. James Whitby sentenced to death for the murder of prominent lawyer and former Quit Indi..

Lancashire 1895. Abigail Dawson has lived in fear of her father for thirty years. But when after upr..

Paris 1899. Abigail Wilson has received an invitation from Professor Alphonse Flamand a prominent Fr..

1866. On a dark brooding summer's evening Agnes Lenham seats herself in an empty first-class compart..

London April 1882. When cool-headed Phyllida visits the World's End Investigation Bureau to offer a ..

Upstairs Madam is planning the party of the season. Downstairs the servants are plotting the heist o..

February 1665. With winter passing Mercia Blakewood is at last headed back to England from America h..

Following adventures she would sooner forget in the newly renamed New York Mercia Blakewood is hopef..

Philadelphia 1844. As violent tensions escalate between 'nativists' and recent Irish immigrants Edga..

Summer 1840. Edgar Allan Poe arrives in London to meet his friend C. Auguste Dupin in the hope that ..

Lord James Harrington and his wife Beth happen upon a road accident where the driver Bernard Potter ..

As the winter of 1323 descends upon a windswept chapel on the edge of Dartmoor who could blame the y..

1917. The Lotus Hotel offers sanctuary for its exclusively female clientele attracting the cream of ..