David Dickinson
Death Comes to the Ballet Russes
Theatrical murder onstage turns into the real thing as, after the performance, a young performer, Taneyev, is found dead backstage,…
Death at the Jesus Hospital
London, 1910: in an almshouse named Jesus Hospital, elderly members of the Ancient Mistery of Silkworkers, a London livery company…
Death in a Scarlet Coat
Death in a Scarlet Coat is set in Lincolnshire at the beginning of the 20th century. The 15th earl of…
Death of a Pilgrim
It is 1905 in New York City. Millionaire tycoon Michael Delaney’s son is near death at St. Vincent Hospital amidst…
Death on the Holy Mountain
The seventh Lord Francis Powerscourt murder mystery begins in 1905 with the detective peer returning to his native Ireland…
Death on the Nevskii Prospekt
Russia, terrorist capital of the world at the beginning of the 20th century. In St Petersburg the body of an…
Death Called to the Bar
In February 1902, during a feast at the Inns of Court, a senior barrister mysteriously dies. When a second man…
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