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

Once again the plumbing at Tawcester Towers is causing consternation for the Dowager Duchess so she ..

London April 1882. When cool-headed Phyllida visits the World's End Investigation Bureau to offer a ..

Berlin December 1939. Paranoia in the capital is intensified by a rigidly enforced blackout that plu..

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

Adelaide 1931: Telephone switchboard operator Frances’ life is difficult as sole provider for her ..

1957. A catastrophe occurs at the pharmaceutical lab in Coventry where 16-year-old Wilf is working f..

September 1940. The height of the Blitz. When The Savoy advertises its series of underground shelter..

Paris 1899. Abigail Wilson has received an invitation from Professor Alphonse Flamand a prominent Fr..

1937. War with Germany is dawning and a civil war already raging in Spain. Split across political li..

October 1381. Brother Athelstan is summoned to the church of St Benet’s in Queenhithe to investiga..

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

Lancashire 1895. Abigail Dawson has lived in fear of her father for thirty years. But when after upr..

January 1950. Lady Anne Coke daughter of the 5th Earl of Leicester is called home after a sudden dea..

1917. The Lotus Hotel offers sanctuary for its exclusively female clientele attracting the cream of ..