Early one morning Pitt is summoned to Long Spoon Lane where anarchists are plotting to attack. Bombs explode, destroying the homes of many poor people. ...

It is bad enough that the recently deceased Lord Fitzroy-Hammond has been removed from his grave, but when it happens a second time and then other buried ...

When Charlotte learned of her mother’s distress in losing a locket with a compromising picture in it, she did not know it was the beginning of several biz...

The ritual murder of a prostitute in a bedroom in decrepit Pentecost Alley would ordinarily cause little commotion, but under the victim’s body was found ...

A young bridegroom enlists private investigator William Monk to track down his fiancée, Miriam Gardiner, who disappeared suddenly from a party at a luxuri...

Another fantastic Pitt novel from the master storyteller of the Victorian mystery.

1895 and an increasingly violent tide of political unrest is ris...

Someone in the Colonial Office is passing secrets to Germany about England’s Africa policy. While Pitt investigates this treason, he is quietly looking i...

Newly promoted Pitt has to investigate the gruesome beheadings of three apparently unconnected victims but he is bedevilled by a lack of cooperation from ...

Monk is commissioned to find the stolen ivory from the hold of Clement Louvain’s ocean-going schooner. The river Thames – ‘the longest street in London’...

Clemency Shaw, the wife of a prominent doctor, has died in a tragic fire. But whether the blaze was set by an arsonist aiming for the doctor, or set by t...

When the distinguished Mr. Justice Stafford dies of opium poisoning, his shocking demise resurrects one of the most sensational cases ever to inflame Engl...

When a group of powerful Irish Protestants and Catholics gather at a country house to discuss Irish home rule, contention is to be expected. But when the ...