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

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 ..

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

1895. A senior executive at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is found in his office with a bullet hole..

October 1381. Brother Athelstan is summoned to the church of St Benet?s in Queenhithe to investigate..

Baldwin Furnshill and Bailiff Simon Puttock have been granted leave to go on pilgrimage. Together th..

At the lush Villa Calypso on the French Riviera a dying billionaire launches a devious plan: at midn..

Halloween 1861. A special train with two carriages steams across the Lake District at night on its w..

After a whirlwind romance and dream wedding the new Mrs Ramsforth is whisked away to an idyllic Gree..

1895. Former Scotland Yard detective Daniel Wilson made famous from his days working the Jack the Ri..

On their return home from their pilgrimage Baldwin and Simon's ship is attacked off the coast of the..

After their gruelling journeys to Galicia and Scilly Baldwin and Simon are at last back on the Engli..

Newly appointed as land agent to the youthful Lord Croft Matthew Rowsley finds plenty to keep him bu..

Adelaide 1931: Telephone switchboard operator Frances? life is difficult as sole provider for her mo..