Newly appointed as land agent to the youthful Lord Croft Matthew Rowsley finds plenty to keep him bu..

Bombay 1949. As India celebrates the arrival of a momentous new decade Inspector Persis Wadia stands..

Bombay 1950. For over a century one of the world's great treasures a 600-hundred-year-old copy of Da..

Bombay 1950. When the body of a white man is found frozen in the Himalayan foothills near Dehra Dun ..

On a freezing winter's night the residents of Thorncroft House are roused from their beds by an unex..

1861 Victorian England. When Matthew and Harriet Rowsley are invited to a party at Clunston Park by ..

As dawn breaks on a chilly morning in November 1940 a car is found ablaze in an abandoned builder's ..

Bombay 1950. James Whitby sentenced to death for the murder of prominent lawyer and former Quit Indi..

Bombay 1951. A political rally ends in tragedy when India's first female police detective Persis Wad..

Paris 1899. Abigail Wilson has received an invitation from Professor Alphonse Flamand a prominent Fr..

1866. On a dark brooding summer's evening Agnes Lenham seats herself in an empty first-class compart..

March 1941. World War Two is well underway and the Blitz is taking its toll on Central London with b..

A house full of academics should imply calm and quiet but much to housekeeper Harriet Rowsley's dism..

October 1861 England. Harriet and Matthew Rowsley the housekeeper and estate manager of Thorncroft H..

With his lordship's mental health failing management of his grand country estate has been assigned t..