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

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

One of the Claridge's kitchen porters is found dead - strangled. He was a recent employee who claime..

17th May 1899. Queen Victoria lays the foundation stone on the site of a new museum being built in S..

It is the summer of 1934 when MI6 receives intelligence that two German scientists have made a break..

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

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

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

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

Berlin December 1939. Paranoia in the capital is intensified by a rigidly enforced blackout that plu..

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

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

1928. After the death of a maid at a glamorous society party fortune heir Bryan Guinness seizes life..

January 1144. Hugh Bradecote does not want his betrothed heading off on pilgrimage to the shrine of ..

It's former lady's maid Louisa Cannon's wedding day but the fantasy is shattered shortly after when ..