Step into the foggy streets of Victorian London, where crime and high-society intrigue collide. This series masterfully weaves together compelling mysteries, often featuring literary figures solving complex cases. Each installment delves into shadowy plots, blackmail, and murder, where uncovering the truth is a dangerous pursuit. It's a thrilling journey into a bygone era, perfect for lovers of historical crime fiction.
Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins team up after a housemaid is dragged from the River Thames in this new Victorian mystery series. The woman was being blackmailed, but by who and why? The woman's friend, Sesina, discovers only fragments of the woman's journal... but is she withholding information or doomed to end up like her friend?
November, 1853. Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins are summoned to examine a body found in an attic studio, surrounded by a lacerated painting titled A Winter of Despair. Wilkie recognizes the victim as a friend of his brother Charley. What secrets lie among the close-knit group of Pre-Raphaelite painters who were the victim's friends?