1894. Mr Simeon Crosby a retired executioner comes to Wigan with his wife and brother to give a talk..

Daniel Pitt is delighted that his sister is visiting London with her American husband Patrick a poli..

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

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

Lord James Harrington and his wife Beth happen upon a road accident where the driver Bernard Potter ..

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

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

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..

1555. A priest has been stabbed to death in the village of St Botolph his body left to rot by the ro..

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

London 1929. In the darkness before dawn a London railway porter discovers a man's body as he unload..

Ireland. AD 672. The hamlet of Cloichín is said to be a veritable Eden with its prosperous farms an..

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

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