Henry Beaumont keeps a renowned pack of foxhounds quick brave and ruthless at the kill. One December..

December 1917. Ada Hobbes has cleaned for Dr Tindall for many years and begins this frosty morning l..

As dawn breaks on a chilly morning in November 1940 a car is found ablaze in an abandoned builder's ..

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

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

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

Edinburgh 1896_x000D_Amy Alardyce's once-perfect life is in tatters. Her eldest son Robert has come ..

One freezing night an SS doctor and his wife return from an evening mingling with their fellow Nazis..

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

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

London August 1881. The World's End Investigation Bureau is thriving and Lily Raynor is delighted to..

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

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

Venice 1919_x000D_Seventeen years ago the grand Venetian Palazzo degli Angeli was Phoebe Wyndham's h..

The Brontë sisters' first poetry collection has just been published when Anne receives a letter fro..