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1939, Cambridge. The opening weeks of the Second World War, and the first blackout – The Great Darkness – covers southern England, enveloping the city. Detective Inspector Eden Brooke, a wounded hero …

London, 1881: When a body is found in the Paddington canal basin, a woman with a hearing impairment claims that the remains are those of her missing husband, who disappeared three years ago. Unable t …

Swallow and the legendary Chief Superintendent John Mallon must also work tirelessly to counter espionage and subterfuge by the British secret services, who are hell-bent on destroying Charles Stewar …

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English journalist and writer, born in London on May 29, 1874. He was educated at St. Paul’s School and then joined the Slade School of London to study arts. His famil …

First published in 1908. Frederick Merrick White, who wrote as Fred M White, was the author of a number of novels and short stories including the six ‘Doom of London’ science-fiction stories in which …

Cornwall, 1845. Shilly has always felt a connection to happenings that are not of this world, a talent that has proved invaluable when investigating dark deeds with master of disguise, Anna Drake. Th …

The Beetle (or The Beetle – A Mystery) is an 1897 horror novel by the British writer Richard Marsh, in which a polymorphous Ancient Egyptian entity seeks revenge on a British Member of Parliament. It …

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meani …

It is 1906 and the Faro family gather in Orkney after the sudden death of Inspector Faro's son-in-law Erland Yesnaby. The family try to support grieving widow Emily, but after witnessing strange …

A maritime mystery from Edward Marston, author of the bestselling Railway Detective series. Bombay, 1909. Genevieve Masefield and George Dillman make a living as detectives aboard the early twentieth …