1939. War has been declared and spymaster Fitzroy wastes no time in preparing his goddaughter Hope f..

1969. A job in the Prison Service is not for everyone. But for Nell Lewis helping prisoners is somet..

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

Christmas Eve 1938. The Westbury family and assorted friends have gathered for another legendary cel..

July 1794 and the streets of London are filled with rumours of revolution. Laurence Jago - clerk to ..

December 1917. Ada Hobbes has cleaned for Dr Tindall for many years and begins this frosty morning l..

The Bront? sisters' first poetry collection has just been published when Anne receives a letter from..

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

When clever headstrong Kaveri moves to Bangalore to marry doctor Ramu she's resigned herself to a qu..

One of the Claridge's kitchen porters is found dead - strangled. He was a recent employee who claime..

It is the summer of 1934 when MI6 receives intelligence that two German scientists have made a break..

Hugh d?Avranches Earl of Chester is enraged when his hawk is killed by an arrow in the Forest of Del..

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

Ireland AD 672. The abbey of Muman at Imleach Iubhair is being renovated when its guests' hostel bur..

Bombay 1950. When the body of a white man is found frozen in the Himalayan foothills near Dehra Dun ..