Halloween 1861. A special train with two carriages steams across the Lake District at night on its w..
1895. A senior executive at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is found in his office with a bullet hole..
London 1895. Daniel Wilson and Abigail Fenton have been hired by the Natural History Museum to find ..
London 1897. The capital is shocked to learn that the body of a woman has been found at the National..
1937. War with Germany is dawning and a civil war already raging in Spain. Split across political li..
At the lush Villa Calypso on the French Riviera a dying billionaire launches a devious plan: at midn..
1895. Former Scotland Yard detective Daniel Wilson made famous from his days working the Jack the Ri..
London 1896. Madame Tussauds opens to find one of its nightwatchmen decapitated and his colleague no..
June 1144. When the naked corpse of an unknown man is discovered and the Prince of Powys’s messeng..
It is February 1912 when barrister Daniel Pitt is reunited with his old college friend Inspector Ian..
August 1940. On the streets of London locals watch with growing concern as German fighter planes pla..
Adelaide 1931: Telephone switchboard operator Frances’ life is difficult as sole provider for her ..
1311. Edward I is dead but at Holyrood Abbey the old king's former bodyguards protect his relics and..
November 1940. Darkness descends and another anxious night begins for those tasked with guarding the..
Spring 1934. Elena Standish a young English photographer who works for British Intelligence is visit..