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

Bombay 1949. As India celebrates the arrival of a momentous new decade Inspector Persis Wadia stands..

Bombay 1950. For over a century one of the world's great treasures a 600-hundred-year-old copy of Da..

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

Spring 1934. Elena Standish a young English photographer who works for British Intelligence is visit..

1862. A goods train is speeding through the Sapperton Tunnel when it hits a makeshift pen of sheep i..

Italy 1933. Fresh from her exploits in Berlin British photographer Elena Standish is chosen for a se..

Yorkshire 1930. Kate Shackleton arrives at the garden party with her niece Harriet to celebrate the ..

London 1841. Mr Jeremiah Blake and Captain William Avery recently returned from India are invited by..

In 1360 the Great Bridge over the River Cam is close to collapse. As arguments rage over raising the..

Spring 1312. At Malmaison Manor Lord Simon is concealing a dark secret - one he assumes will never c..

Derbyshire 1921. When an MP goes missing in a Derbyshire village Scotland Yard detective Albert Linc..

One night in the Greenwich Royal Naval Hospital nurse Hester Monk is approached by a terrified girl...

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

Christmas 1846 and Haworth is in the grip of a freezing winter. Charlotte Emily and Anne Brontë are..