December 1935. Director Monty Harrison's production of A Christmas Carol has had a troubled run on i..

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

Victorian London 1882. Five years ago crusading lawyer Cage Lackmann successfully defended Moses Pic..

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

Paris 1750. A new maid arrives at the home of a celebrated clockmaker and his clever unworldly daugh..

July 1144. Ricolde 'the finest whore in Worcester' is found butchered on an island a few miles up th..

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

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

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

On this day of ill omen plague makes its entrance. Within weeks swathes of England will be darkened ..

Lisbon 1564. The Inquisition displays its power and ruthlessly spreads fear. Heretics are tortured a..

June 1144. When the naked corpse of an unknown man is discovered and the Prince of Powys’s messeng..

London 1897. The capital is shocked to learn that the body of a woman has been found at the National..

January 1144. Hugh Bradecote does not want his betrothed heading off on pilgrimage to the shrine of ..

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