London, December 1906. The capital glitters with Christmas lights and festive crowds, yet on Piccadilly something far darker stirs. Beneath Frank Dicksee's celebrated painting of Romeo and Juliet at the Royal Academy lies the body of a young woman - drowned elsewhere and carefully staged, and with echoes also of Shakespeare's tragic Ophelia?With Scotland Yard baffled, the Museum Detectives Daniel and Abigail Wilson are called in once more. Drawn into the intertwine...

May 1941. Both the centre of London and rural Kent continue to take a battering from German bombers. Canterbury and its distinctive cathedral are among the hardest hit. The landmark and holy site is thescene of further tragedy when Canon Walter de la Coeur is found savagely bludgeoned to death on the exact spot where Thomas Becket also met his end centuries before.Detective Chief Inspector Coburg and Sergeant Lampson are called in from Scotland Yard and must sift through the...

Kent, May 1941. The towns and countryside south of London continue to take a battering from German bombers. Canterbury, with the focal point of its distinctive cathedral, is among the hardest hit. The landmark and holy site is the scene of further tragedy when Canon Walter de la Coeur is found savagely bludgeoned to death on the exact spot where Thomas Becket also met his end centuries before. Detective Chief Inspector Coburg and Sergeant Lampson are called in from Scotland Yard and must s...

His Holiness needs to meet Museum Detectives, Mr and Mrs Wilson, urgently.It's been two years since Daniel and Abigail Wilson visited the Eternal City, and this time they're invited by none other than Pope Leo XIII himself. But this is no sightseeing visit, as the renowned detectives are asked to put their skills to good use, investigating a suspected assassination attempt from within the Vatican's walls.Who can be trusted when murder could come from any direction? A...

London, 1899. Queen Victoria lays the foundation stone on the site of what she names as The Victoria and Albert Museum. Shortly after, the Museum Detectives Daniel Wilson and Abigail Fenton are called to the site because the dead body of curator Andrew Page has been found.The Queen is determined that nothing will sully the new museum, and by association her beloved Albert's legacy. But the more Wilson and Fenton dig, the more they discover other potential motives for Page's murder,...

These world-renowned museums hold some deadly secrets ...Murder at the Fitzwilliam1894. Daniel Wilson, who made his name investigating the case of Jack the Ripper alongside the formidable Inspector Abberline, is now working as a private enquiry agent. When the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge finds itself in need of urgent - and discreet - assistance, he is the natural first choice.The museum will soon unveil its new Egyptian ...

September 1940. The height of the Blitz. When The Savoy advertises its series of underground shelters, a crowd of people from East London arrive at the hotel and demand entry. There they find a shelter worthy of The Savoy's clientele, but the next morning, after the air raid and when the Stepney protestors have left, it is discovered that one of the hotel's guests is dead, stabbed through the heart. Detective Chief Inspector Coburg and Sergeant Lampson are called in, and the finger of susp...

It's 1917 and Billy Stevens is a telegraph operator stationed near Ypres. The Great War has been raging for three years when Billy finds himself taking part in the deadly Big Push forward. But he is shocked to discover that the bullets of his fellow soldiers aren't just aimed at the enemy...

When the newly dubbed 'Museum Detectives' are asked to investigate deliberate damage to a dinosaur skeleton at the Natural History Museum, there is evidence that the fossil-hunting mania of the notorious Bone Wars in America may have reached their shores. But for Daniel Wilson, famed for his involvement in the Jack the Ripper case, and renowned archaeologist Abigail Fenton, events soon take a sinister turn.A museum attendant is found dead in an anteroom by...

'The plotting is excellent, with admirable narrative drive . an engaging and entertaining read' Historical Novels ReviewJanuary 1901. Abigail and Daniel Wilson, often lauded as 'The Museum Detectives', are on their way to the Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza. Their explorations of the pyramid, including the Robbers' Tunnel, take a very sinister turn when they come upon the dead body of a man who has been brutally garrotted. Investigations by the local police reveal h...

May, 1941. One of the senior choristers at St Paul's, Edwin Roberts, is found beaten to death in the crypt of the cathedral and Detective Chief Inspector Coburg and Sergeant Lampson are called in to investigate.The dead man was far from popular. That, coupled with a small army of staff at work at the famous landmark, including those on the Night Watch striving to protect the cathedral from the worst of the Blitz, means that there is no shortage of suspects. The case is complicated ...

London, 1899. A shocking murder is discovered at the heart of the Tower of London. The dead body of a Yeoman Warder is found inside a suit of armour belonging to Henry VIII, having been run through with a sword, and when details of this outrage are reported to the Prince of Wales, he fears this may be an expression of Republican unrest striking at the very home of the Crown Jewels. In the hopes of hampering the spread of news about the crime, the Prince reluctantly calls upon the services ...