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

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

1894. Mr Simeon Crosby a retired executioner comes to Wigan with his wife and brother to give a talk..

Daniel Pitt is delighted that his sister is visiting London with her American husband Patrick a poli..

It is 1910 and a warehouse fire on the banks of the Thames has left one criminal dead and another ch..

Lord James Harrington and his wife Beth happen upon a road accident where the driver Bernard Potter ..

As the winter of 1323 descends upon a windswept chapel on the edge of Dartmoor who could blame the y..

On their return home from their pilgrimage Baldwin and Simon's ship is attacked off the coast of the..

After their gruelling journeys to Galicia and Scilly Baldwin and Simon are at last back on the Engli..

Halloween 1861. A special train with two carriages steams across the Lake District at night on its w..

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

Ireland. AD 672. The hamlet of Cloichín is said to be a veritable Eden with its prosperous farms an..

London 1818. MP Sir Roger Mellanby attends a performance of Macbeth at Covent Garden featuring Hanna..

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

Brighton 1957. Mirabelle Bevan can't resist a cry for help be it the little girl at a seaside sanato..