December 1864. As a cold winter wind scours the Worcestershire countryside an excursion train comes ..

London 1896. Madame Tussauds opens to find one of its nightwatchmen decapitated and his colleague no..

Nicolas Picard is riding home from Exeter when he's attacked by a snarling wildcat. Yet when the bod..

17th May 1899. Queen Victoria lays the foundation stone on the site of a new museum being built in S..

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

During a violent snowstorm the Royal Family gather at Balmoral Castle for a traditional Christmas to..

December 1935. Director Monty Harrison's production of A Christmas Carol has had a troubled run on i..

1939. World War II is looming Oswald Mosley has awoken fascist sympathies among the British aristocr..

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

In the shadowy hallway of clockmaker Johannes Carver's house a policeman is found murdered the arrow..

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

Mary Dutton is accused of killing her husband by poison. The police see it as an open-and-shut case ..

A woman’s dismembered corpse is discovered in a quarry and police quickly link the victim back to ..

On a storm-driven night wreckers deliberately drive a helpless merchant ship on a rocky shore. Abbes..

Ireland AD 670. When an eminent scholar is found murdered in his cell in the abbey of Lios Mór fear..