In the summer of 1932, Maisie Dobbs’s career takes an exciting new turn when she accepts an undercover assignment directed by Scotland Yard’s Special Branch and the Secret Service. Posing ...

It is 1923. Mary Russell Holmes and her husband, the retired Sherlock Holmes, are enjoying the summer together on their Sussex estate when they are visited by an old friend, Miss Dorothy Ruskin, an ar...

Sarah Jane Fearing, the sole offspring of a father who desperately wants a male heir, has grown up in the imposing rural mansion of one of England’s most influential banking families. At the cen...

A West Country Mystery Karen Slocombe isn’t sure why she visited the supermarket that day – as a committed member of the Food Chain Group and a regular stall holder at local farmers’ markets, Su...

It is 1921 and Mary Russell – Sherlock Holmes’s brilliant apprentice, now an Oxford graduate with a degree in theology – is on the verge of acquiring a sizable inheritance. Independe...

Dido Kent’s sister-in-law Margaret is attempting to marry her off to the ghastly clergyman Doctor Prowdlee, with his abominable side-whiskers. Dido, however, is determined to refuse him. As puni...