His respected - not very respected - chief had been grumbling all the way from London and now the sp..

March 1587. Christopher Marlowe’s play Tamburlaine has opened at the Rose Theatre. But the play is..

May 1588. With Elizabeth I’s court rocked by stories of an imminent invasion and one of his key un..

Everybody they say has a book in them. Retired Chief Inspector Walter Dew certainly did. But under t..

A woman is on trial for her life accused of murder. The twelve members of the jury each carry their ..

In the winter of 1942 England lies cold and dark in the wartime blackout. One bleak evening Councill..

1949. An unsigned letter arrives on the desk of Chief Inspector Derry of the Canterbury police. Encl..

1964. Detective Sergeant Harry Barnard has been ordered to track down notorious Soho club owner Ray ..

On a busy Friday night in 1964 a woman’s body is discovered in London’s Soho Square. She has bee..

The body of a smartly-dressed businessman turns up in the yard of Eli Simpson's car workshop. But th..

Simmy Brown has a lot on her mind. Not just keeping her florist business afloat her father’s faili..

1817. Upon receiving a letter from an old family friend Clemency van Emden returns from Holland to f..

Suffolk 1955. Rosy Gilchrist is asked by her friend Lady Fawcett to join her on a trip to Southwold ..

1960. Lady Fawcett is eager to vet her daughter Amy’s current beau aspiring film director Bartholo..

In Victorian London race-walking or “wobbles” are all the rage. So on a Monday morning in Novemb..