A superintendent in the Thames River Police, William Monk is on a patrol boat near Waterloo Bridge when he and his men notice a young couple standing at t...

Hester Monk's voluntary work in Coldbath Square is increasingly demanding. Every night she tends to a stream of women of the streets who have been injured...

Deep in London's dangerous slums, Victorians transacted their most secret and shameful business. For a price, a man could procure whatever he wanted, but ...

The tragedy that happened at the March mansion, in the respectable quarter of Cardington Crescent, is almost incredible. After all, representatives of London...

General Carlyon is killed in what first appears to be a freak accident. But the general's wife readily confesses that she did it. With the trial only days...

An anthology of storiesThe most venerated and bestselling authors in the mystery world reveal how they created their most beloved serial characters.

Nurse Hester Latterly finds herself well-suited for the position: accompany Mrs. Mary Farraline, an elderly Scottish lady with delicate health, on a short...

Thomas Pitt, mainstay of Her Majesty’s Special Branch, is summoned to Connaught Square mansion where the body of a junior diplomat lies huddled in a wheel...

By order of his superiors, London police inspector Thomas Pitt is investigating a murder and robbery case that dates back three years. In the library of a re...

In a chilly autumn, a series of terrible crimes occurred on Westminster Bridge, which runs across the Thames from the Houses of Parliament: three men were st...

No breath of scandal has ever touched the aristocratic Moidore family, but then Sir Basil Moidore's beautiful widowed daughter is stabbed to death in her ...