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

London 1897. The capital is shocked to learn that the body of a woman has been found at the National..

London 1556. Hal Westmecott one of the city's most feared executioners reckons Jack Blackjack owes h..

Armistice Day 1940. The Blitz Detective John Jago finds himself despatched to Pimlico to investigate..

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

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

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

September 1940 is finally drawing to a close. With London having endured the Blitz for nearly a mont..

October 1940. Bombs are falling on Stratford when air-raid warden Sylvia Parks sees a house with a l..

November 1940. Darkness descends and another anxious night begins for those tasked with guarding the..

It is February 1912 when barrister Daniel Pitt is reunited with his old college friend Inspector Ian..

September 1940. The height of the Blitz. When The Savoy advertises its series of underground shelter..

Bombay 1950. For over a century one of the world's great treasures a 600-hundred-year-old copy of Da..

1312. Sir Hugh Corbett has returned from the West Country to find Westminster in chaos. Edward II ha..

London 1896. Madame Tussauds opens to find one of its nightwatchmen decapitated and his colleague no..