1862. A goods train is speeding through the Sapperton Tunnel when it hits a makeshift pen of sheep i..
September 1940. As the Blitz takes its nightly toll on London and Hitler prepares his invasion fleet..
1928. After the death of a maid at a glamorous society party fortune heir Bryan Guinness seizes life..
1939. World War II is looming Oswald Mosley has awoken fascist sympathies among the British aristocr..
1939. War has been declared and spymaster Fitzroy wastes no time in preparing his goddaughter Hope f..
December 1917. Ada Hobbes has cleaned for Dr Tindall for many years and begins this frosty morning l..
Berlin December 1939. Paranoia in the capital is intensified by a rigidly enforced blackout that plu..
When a heart attack forces Marcus fford Croft to retire from his chambers his daughter Miriam and so..
On a freezing winter's night the residents of Thorncroft House are roused from their beds by an unex..
Bombay 1950. For over a century one of the world's great treasures a 600-hundred-year-old copy of Da..
September 1940 is finally drawing to a close. With London having endured the Blitz for nearly a mont..
London 1897. The capital is shocked to learn that the body of a woman has been found at the National..
1969. A job in the Prison Service is not for everyone. But for Nell Lewis helping prisoners is somet..
Paris 1940. As the city adjusts to life under Nazi occupation Detective Eddie Giral struggles to rec..
It is 1910 and a warehouse fire on the banks of the Thames has left one criminal dead and another ch..