Nell Whitaker is 15 when war breaks out and her mother sends her to live with her Auntie Kath in a r..

“Already it looked as if the police were up against a carefully planned and cleverly executed murd..

“Luke flung the light of his torch full onto the face of the immobile figure. Then he had the shoc..

In the seeming tranquility of Regency Square in Cheltenham live the diverse inhabitants of its ten h..

The captain of the Newhaven to Dieppe steamer spots a small pleasure yacht lying motionless in the w..

Leah Turner's father has been killed in an accident at the laundry and it falls to her to become sol..

Lancashire 1931. When Finn Carlisle loses his wife and unborn child he spends a few years travelling..

Lancashire 1932. Widower Harry Makepeace lives in Manchester with his sickly daughter Cathie scrimpi..

West Yorkshire 1926. After completing her training in Steeple Street Agnes is looking forward to mak..

Graham and Joan Bendix have apparently succeeded in making that eighth wonder of the modern world a ..

1787. Captain Edward Brazier is on a mission: recently paid off from his frigate and comfortably off..

Edward Brazier is enlisted by Prime Minister William Pitt to assist his investigation into smuggling..

1787. Captain Edward Brazier is wounded and in desperate need of medical attention but those from wh..

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

Widely acknowledged as the first detective novel this story is narrated by insurance investigator Ra..