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

Cornwall 1910. On a remote tidal island the Viscount of Tithe Hall is absorbed in feverish preparati..

Camden 1890. London is a city of gaslight gossip and grisly headlines. Hannah Teale is a bright youn..

London 1881. Lily Raynor owner of the World's End Investigation Bureau is growing increasingly worri..

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

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

1939. War has been declared and spymaster Fitzroy wastes no time in preparing his goddaughter Hope f..

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

It is 1940 and as the Battle of Britain takes to the air Hope Stapleford is recruited to join the Sp..

Spring 1312. Edward II of England is absorbed with his favourite Peter Gaveston while his wife Isabe..

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

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

London 1958. Hidden deep beneath the city's streets lies the world of Miss Brickett's a secret detec..

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

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