Sein neuester Fall führt ihn auf das Luxusschiff "Leviathan", das 1878 auf Jungfernfahrt nach Kalkutta ist. Dort begegnet er dem französischen Kommissar Coche, der ein Jahrhundertverbrechen aufklären will: In Paris wurden Lord...
The Golden Age of British Detective Fiction
The idyllic English village of Lindsay Carfax isn't run by the parish council, the rating authority, the sanitary inspector nor the local cops as you might suppose. The real bosses are the Carders -...
Margery Allingham's Mr Campion finds himself a fish out of water when he investigates a murder in a Yorkshire mining village.
Following the death of the senior English master in a tragic road accident, Mr Campion's son Rupert and daughter-in-law...
So where exactly did Albert Campion stand on the Abdication?' 'Behind the throne, slightly to the left?' suggested Commander Charles Luke.
Margery Allingham's Mr Campion finds himself masquerading as technical advisor to a very suspicious but...
A dark mystery for Sherlock Holmes... and of course Mrs Hudson!
A man is accidentally knocked down outside 221B Baker Street by a carriage. His dying words are clear: he has seen a man rise from the grave.
At the same time a visitor arrives with a...
Even Sherlock Holmes needs help sometimes...
Londoners are turning out for the unveiling of the Malabar Rose-a rare and remarkable ruby-and the British debut of the Great Salmanazar. A magician and illusionist extraordinaire, Salmanazar is the talk...
Entering into service as housekeeper for the distinguished investigator Sherlock Holmes and his associate Dr. Watson, Mrs. Hudson expands her duties beyond keeping things tidy.
The great detective's latest client is a traveler recently returned from...
Fledgling playwright Will Shakespeare and Symington Smythe, ostler and would-be thespian, are firmly ensconced in their theatre company. But due to the plague, all of London 's theatres have been closed. The players are broke, and our intrepid...
Murder at the Tsar’s private palace… and sinister monk Rasputin is a suspect. The Russian Revolution draws Professor Axelson and his assistant Agnes into a terrifying web of intrigue and violence. Fleeing for their lives amid the death throes of...