September 1940 is finally drawing to a close. With London having endured the Blitz for nearly a mont..

October 1940. Bombs are falling on Stratford when air-raid warden Sylvia Parks sees a house with a l..

November 1940. Darkness descends and another anxious night begins for those tasked with guarding the..

It’s a busy time of the year for Lord James Harrington and his wife Beth - there’s the Michaelma..

Spring 1934. Elena Standish a young English photographer who works for British Intelligence is visit..

May 1911. Daniel Pitt is summoned to a murder scene in the slums of London's East End. He identifies..

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

When Inspector Field shows his friend Charles Dickens the body of a young woman dragged from the Riv..

November 1853. Inspector Field has summoned his friends Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins to examin..

When Robert Pomeroy a young undergraduate at Corpus Christi College finds a letter slipped under his..

In 1360 the Great Bridge over the River Cam is close to collapse. As arguments rage over raising the..

London 1896. Madame Tussauds opens to find one of its nightwatchmen decapitated and his colleague no..

1969. A job in the Prison Service is not for everyone. But for Nell Lewis helping prisoners is somet..

It is February 1912 when barrister Daniel Pitt is reunited with his old college friend Inspector Ian..

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