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

July 1794 and the streets of London are filled with rumours of revolution. Laurence Jago - clerk to ..

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

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

Paris 1750. A new maid arrives at the home of a celebrated clockmaker and his clever unworldly daugh..

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

It's 1959 and a new killer haunts the streets of London branding roses on his victims. The police ha..

The Bront? sisters' first poetry collection has just been published when Anne receives a letter from..

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

When clever headstrong Kaveri moves to Bangalore to marry doctor Ramu she's resigned herself to a qu..

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

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

Hugh d?Avranches Earl of Chester is enraged when his hawk is killed by an arrow in the Forest of Del..

Bombay 1950. When the body of a white man is found frozen in the Himalayan foothills near Dehra Dun ..

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