Born on All Fools' Day 1865, Edith Gwendolyn Barrington grew into a beautiful woman, and yet she was haughty and unapproachable. She seemed to have little interest in men until, suddenly, everything changed. Three husbands in three years all died suddenly. Surely no woman could be so unlucky? The police were convinced it was more than just bad luck…Before she died, Edith issued a curse on those who had brought about her untimely death, a curse to be carried down through the generat...

A tale of the wild west, of gunfighters, of bounty hunters, of satanic forces, of the fight between good and evil – and maybe, just maybe, of the Second Coming.Nevada 1869, only four years after the American Civil War had ended, the rule of law was still so often replaced by the rule of the gun.Into one of the small towns clinging tenuously to the rule of law, came a bounty hunter, a man who made his living by delivering outlaws wanted dead or alive to the authorities and co...

The Metropolitan Police is in crisis. A senior officer of Scotland Yard's Murder Squad has been shot dead by one of his own men, and it seems that the police are no closer to solving the grisly murders of prostitutes in the Whitechapel area of London. Is the murderer trying to emulate Jack the Ripper? Or is there an even more sinister motive behind the killings? Could it be that the shooting of one of their own officers by a detective sergeant really was justified; that the officer was the...

For Chief Inspector William Lamb and his assistant, Detective Sergeant Clive Halpen of the Murder Squad, Scotland Yard, it began when they were called in to investigate the murder of a girl student in her London flat. Soon, the body count was rising, but was there a serial killer on the loose or were the murders unconnected?It was not difficult to find suspects, and few of them, if any, were telling the truth. Even so, there were good reasons to believe that none of them was guilty...

Jealous lovers, a crooked solicitor, trouble with gypsies, illegal liquor, feuds between farmers, unrequited love and more, but did any of it lead to the murder of the beautiful young woman at midnight in a Cornish lane? More importantly, as the identity of the murderer seemed obvious, too obvious, could the Murder Squad unravel the loose ends and follow them back to find the true culprit? And, if they could, would they do it in time to save the accused from the hangman? Worse, from the po...

Bloody murders at Holcombe Manor in 1885 leave the police baffled. The entire family, except one young man, Horatio Henderson, who has disappeared, has been killed. Perhaps Horatio is the culprit? Except that he has no motive. And that's the problem: there seems to be no motive for anyone to have committed the murders.With no one to inherit the estate except the missing Horatio, the executors are left with a problem until, five years later, a young woman turns up from Australia cla...

The girls at St. Bridget's School for Young Ladies are not really bad. Hyperactive? Definitely. Mischievous? Undoubtedly. In need of control? Without a doubt. And perhaps some of them are more than a little wicked, irresponsible, immature, foolhardy…But the school, a former convent now supposedly educating the most refined British schoolgirls from the most responsible, upper class families, is mismanaged by misguided educationalists who seem to expect that the girls will behave in ...

Do ghosts exist? And can they commit murder?In telephone call to New Scotland Yard, a man calling himself Julian Kane claimed responsibility for the serial killings of a High Court Judge and a stockbroker and his wife, whose deaths the police were currently investigating.The problem, among others, was that Julian Kane was executed for murder in 1800, some 170 years earlier, and the "ghost" on the telephone also claims responsibility for other murders for which another man i...

A string of murders in 1883 are somehow linked to another string of murders in 1908. In each case it seemed that the police had solved the mystery, and yet there were loose ends that were never resolved. When yet another string of murders in 1933 stretches the deductive powers of Scotland Yard's best detectives to the limit – and beyond – there may be one detective who can find the missing links and solve not only the present murders but the past killings too.Last time, the killer ...

1958, and the Murder Squad at Scotland Yard have been called in to solve five killings in London and to re-open a murder case when the prime suspect is acquitted.As if that were not enough, someone has decided to emulate Jack the Ripper and create nothing less than carnage in the Whitechapel area. It seems bizarre to the investigating detectives that even with a heavy police presence the killings continue and, worse still, one police officer after another becomes a victim.S...

Marcus Hallum found both when he died prematurely, but neither was expecting him. Clearly, someone had made a mistake and no one was yet ready for Marcus to shuffle off the mortal coil… and neither Heaven nor Hell was prepared to take the chance of accepting someone for all eternity who had not been properly tested on Earth to determine whether he was really good or really bad. And, for similar reasons, neither Limbo nor Purgatory seemed appropriate, either.The solution was clear, ...

When world-famous magician Edward Isaacs disappears and a suicide note is found near a beach, many assume it is some sort of publicity stunt. That all changes when a body is washed up, identified as the missing magician by a unique tattoo and dental records. But did he really commit suicide, or was he murdered? And is he really dead? Events that follow suggest otherwise, particularly when a mishap at his funeral reveals an empty coffin. And, worse, is he committing revenge murders from bey...