Who saw him die? I said the fly with my little eye. I saw him die. An astonishingly beautiful settin..

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

When Hollywood wants to do a remake of the film that made Tode Hall famous India and Egbert are deli..

Glasgow 1898. A man is found stabbed to death in a tenement block. Juan Camerón photographer-cum-sl..

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

Berlin December 1939. Paranoia in the capital is intensified by a rigidly enforced blackout that plu..

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

November 1853. Inspector Field has summoned his friends Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins to examin..

July 1144. Ricolde 'the finest whore in Worcester' is found butchered on an island a few miles up th..

September 1940 is finally drawing to a close. With London having endured the Blitz for nearly a mont..

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

York railway station December 1925. Detective Inspector Jim Stringer is enjoying a pint in the Parlo..

October 1940. Bombs are falling on Stratford when air-raid warden Sylvia Parks sees a house with a l..

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

September 1940. As the Blitz takes its nightly toll on London and Hitler prepares his invasion fleet..