The opening of an archaeological exhibition brings with it intrigue and evil as a fabled cursed gold..

It is 1910 and a warehouse fire on the banks of the Thames has left one criminal dead and another ch..

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

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

Italy 1933. Fresh from her exploits in Berlin British photographer Elena Standish is chosen for a se..

1933. Europe is a place of increasing fear and violence. Young British photographer Elena Standish i..

The small village of Maldon is controlled by the wealthy and rapacious FitzCorbucion family led by H..

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

While attending a lavish masked ball in Venice retired Scotland Yard detective Jasper has a shock wh..

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

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

Yorkshire 1845. A young woman has gone missing from her home Chester Grange leaving no trace save a ..

Yorkshire 1930. Kate Shackleton arrives at the garden party with her niece Harriet to celebrate the ..

Derbyshire 1921. When an MP goes missing in a Derbyshire village Scotland Yard detective Albert Linc..

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