In a Victorian mystery Scotland Yard's Inspector Pitt and his wife investigate a series of grave-robbings that bring them time and time again to the elegant street of Gadstone Park.

Investigator Thomas Monk, nurse Hester Latterly, and defense counsel Oliver Rathbone work to save Alexandra Carlyon from the gallous for the murder of her husband.

Police Supervisor Thomas Pitt and his wife Charlotte investigate a serious of gruesome beheadings in Hyde Park.

Thomas Pitt is summoned to Buckingham Palace to investigate when a prostitute's murdered body is discovered in the queen's bed, leading to a scandal that could destroy the monarchy if Pitt cannot find the killer.

The death of their parents in an automobile crash in the summer of 1914 leads Cambridge professor Joseph Reavley and his brother Matthew, an intelligence officer, into a complicated investigation of what became of a mysterious document--allegedly with the power to disgrace England--Mr. Reavley was on his way to deliver to Matthew when he died.