Autumn 1916. The first Zeppelin shot down by a British plane bursts into flames over London and plummets to the ground. As those brave enough to remain outside during the air raid gaze at the spectacular display, a killer takes advantage of their distraction. The following mornin...
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Taking a job as private detectives aboard the Minnesota, George Porter Dillman and Genevieve Masefield are delighted by their forthcoming cruise to the Far East, until a fiery Anglican missionary is found murdered during the voyage to China.
Bombay, 1909. Genevieve Masefield and George Dillman make a living as detectives aboard the early twentieth century's most extravagant ocean liners. From the members of first class in all their finery, to the card cheats and pickpockets plying their trade, they've experienced mor...
Genevieve Masefield and George Porter Dillman have met all kinds of people while sailing as ship detectives for the Cunard Line. But as they prepare to embark on yet another Atlantic crossing, this time aboard the famous Caronia, they encounter an entirely new circumstance: two m...
September 1907. George Dillman sets sail from Liverpool on the Lusitania's maiden voyage. While posing as a passenger George is in fact an undercover detective hired by the Cunard Line. In the first days of his voyage, George only has to deal with a few petty crimes. But then an ...
Inspector Marmion and Sergeant Keedy investigate the murder of Simon Wilder, who was stabbed to death while walking in an alleyway as British fighters thwarted a Zeppelin attack overhead.
Shrewsbury, 1866. Julian Lockyer is an imposing gentleman in his late fifties. Having reserved a room for the night at the Station Hotel, he asks to be called early in the morning because he has a train to catch. Repeated attempts are made to wake him but there is no response. Af...
Pentonville Prison. Wally Hibbert is serving a long sentence for arson. But after befriending and tricking one of the officers, Hibbert makes an audacious escape. Inspector Marmion, the detective who arrested Hibbert, is warned to watch his back, but it seems that Hibbert has ano...
"June, 1917. While another daylight air raid batters London, the body of respected businessman and devoted family man Gilbert Donohoe is fished from the Thames, the victim of strangulation. Inspector Marmion struggles with the case alongside his anxieties for his now-missing son,...
Architect Christopher Redmayne, his brother Henry, and constable Jonathan Bale investigate the murder of Lady Araminta Jewell's husband, Sir Martin Culthorpe, in seventeenth-century London.
London, 1817. An impatient crowd is gathered outside the stage door of the Covent Garden Theatre, desperate for a glimpse of actress Hannah Granville after her latest performance as Lady Macbeth, amongst them the Prince Regent himself. But before she can appear a gunshot sounds, ...
In 11th century England, royal commissioner Ralph Delchard hunts for a murdering monk in Canterbury. The monk strangled a woman, then poisoned another monk who was investigating her death.
1857. Jeremy Oxley, con-man, thief and murderer, is being escorted on a train to his appointment with the hangman. However, a daring rescue is about to take place and cold-blooded murder is on the cards. It is another puzzling case for the railway detective Robert Colbeck and his...