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When Harriet White rebuffs the advances of her boss at the Baker Street building society where she works, she finds herself demoted to a new position… a very unusual position. Deep in the postal department beneath the bank, she is tasked with working her way through a mountain of correspondence addressed to Baker Street’s most famous resident: Mr Sherlock Holmes.

Molly Gray, Head Maid and now newly minted Special Events Manager at the Regency Grand Hotel, finds herself making perfectly polished plans for two of the biggest events in her event-planning career. The first is a conference featuring two of her and Gran's favorite celebrities, Baxley & Beagle, antique appraisers. And the second event—even more excitingly—is Molly's own wedding to her beau. Molly brings some of Gran's treasures to Baxley & Beagle for appraisal, just for a bit of fun. But much to everyone's surprise, one of Molly's items is deemed priceless.

Miss Daisy ermittelt England in den wilden zwanziger Jahren: Nach dem Tod ihres Vaters fasst Daisy Dalrymple, an Luxus gewöhnt, einen eigenwilligen Entschluss: Sie will ihr Leben selbst in die Hand nehmen und als Journalistin arbeiten. Eigentlich soll sie für ihren ersten Auftrag einen Artikel über Wentwater Court schreiben, das idyllisch gelegene Gut des gleichnamigen Grafen und seiner Frau. Aber der schöne Schein trügt: Auf dem zugefrorenen See wird eine Leiche gefunden. Zusammen mit dem attraktiven Inspector Alec Fletcher von Scotland Yard nimmt Miss Daisy die Ermittlungen auf.

London 1884. Victorian industrialist Alexander Glenville is a man with many secrets. Fleet Street reporter Penny Green is tasked with working undercover as a maid in his home, but tragedy strikes when Glenville's daughter is poisoned. Penny's insider knowledge is crucial for Scotland Yard's murder investigation, but someone in the Glenville household already suspects that she's more than just a servant. Can Penny and Inspector James Blakely solve the mystery before Penny's cover is blown?

Tödliches Weekend auf dem Lande. England 1923: Daisy Dalrymple, jung, charmant und adlig, begibt sich nach Henley-on-Thames, wo die Königliche Ruderregatta stattfindet, von der sie für ein amerikanisches Magazin berichten soll. Außerdem hofft sie, bei der Gelegenheit ein geruhsames Wochenende mit ihrem Verlobten Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher von Scotland Yard verbringen zu können. Als während der Wettkämpfe der Schlagmann eines Teams tot ins Wasser stürzt und es sich offenbar um einen Mord handelt, muss Alec wohl oder übel den Fall übernehmen.

Mord an Bord. Daisy Dalrymple und ihr frischgebackener Ehemann Alec Fletcher von Scotland Yard reisen an Bord eines Luxusliners nach New York. Alec hat einen Spezialauftrag in den USA, und Daisy begleitet ihn. Eines Abends geht ein Mann über Bord. Eine Zeugin behauptet, er sei gestoßen worden. Der Kapitän will zuerst nicht glauben, dass es Mord war, trotzdem bittet er Alec, sich der Sache anzunehmen. Aber der ist erst mal seekrank, und so muss Daisy für ihn einspringen. Ein neuer Fall für Miss Daisy - very British und voller liebenswerter Figuren.

Miss Daisy in New York. Daisy Dalrymple reist mit ihrem frischgebackenen Ehemann Alec Fletcher von Scotland Yard nach Amerika. Im berühmten Chelsea Hotel in New York freundet Daisy sich mit einigen skurrilen Hotelgästen an. Bei einem Treffen mit dem Herausgeber des Magazins, für das sie schreibt, hört sie plötzlich einen Schuss - ein Reporter ist tot, doch der Täter kann entkommen. Mit ihren neuen Freunden mischt Daisy sich in die Ermittlungen ein. Eine Spur zum Mörder führt sie quer durch das Amerika der Roaring Twenties. Ein Kriminalfall aus den Goldenen Zwanzigern voll skurriler Figuren.

Miss Caroline has doubts when she receives an urgent invitation from a London law firm to discuss her late father's estate. After all, the dishonored Earl of Morton died without a pound sterling to pass on to his two daughters. But while immersing herself in helping Mrs. Frogerton's capricious daughter navigate the high social season, Caroline meets with a cagey lawyer, Mr. Smith, who shares life-altering news—the earl composed a second will, leaving behind an undisclosed fortune. Mrs. Frogerton, however, is thoroughly unimpressed with the firm's conduct and suspicious of their true motives.

Mord im Konzert! Bei ihrem Debüt in der Londoner Royal Albert Hall im Jahre 1923 bricht die Mezzosopranistin Betsy tot auf der Bühne zusammen. Miss Daisy Dalrymple, eine junge Adlige mit journalistischen Ambitionen, und ihr Freund Alec Fletcher von Scotland Yard ermitteln - und erweisen sich schnell als findige Experten für komplizierte Künstlerseelen und skandalöse Affären. Aber bis geklärt ist, wer Betsy vergiftete, erleben die beiden so manche bedrohliche Überraschung.

June 1933. Independent, young Kitty Underhay has been left in charge of her family’s hotel, The Dolphin, on the tranquil English coast. But when several rooms are broken into and searched, including Kitty’s own, she quickly realizes that something out of the ordinary is afoot at the hotel. Soon, rumors are flying in the cozy town that someone is on the hunt for a stolen ruby. A ruby that Kitty’s mother may well have possessed when she herself went missing during the Great War.

Meet Enola Holmes, teenaged girl turned detective and the younger sister to Sherlock Holmes. When Enola Holmes, sister to the detective Sherlock Holmes, discovers her mother has disappeared, she quickly embarks on a journey to London in search of her.

Alice runs the Good Household Management Agency, providing discreet domestic staff to extravagant townhouses and sprawling country piles. So when Camille Messant calls in urgent need of a new housekeeper, Miss Beeton sends out new hire Enya. She’s rather forward but she does come with impeccable references and is fluent en français. But in the early hours of New Year’s Day, Alice is rudely awakened with the news that Enya has been found dead.

Edgar Award winner Otto Penzler returns with a new anthology of exhilarating mysteries, assembling Victorian society's lords and ladies and most miserable miscreants. Behind the velvet curtains of horse-drawn carriages and amid the soft glow of the gaslights are the detectives and bobbies sniffing out the safecrackers and petty purloiners who plague everything from the soot-covered side streets of London to the opulent manors of the countryside. Brush off your dinner jackets and straighten out your ball gowns for these exciting, glitzy mysteries.

The options for the penniless daughter of a deceased earl are few indeed in Regency England. So, following the suspicious death of her father, the Earl of Morton, and the discovery that she and her much younger sister have been left without income or home, Lady Caroline takes a post as a lady's companion to the wealthy widow Frogerton. Just as Caroline is getting accustomed to her new position, her aunt, Lady Eleanor Greenwood, invites her and her employer to a house party in the countryside to celebrate her youngest daughter's birthday. But all is not well at the Greenwood estate.

From the majestic mountains of Albania, through the rural idyll of the English countryside, to the shady glamour of contemporary London, The Missus is a spellbinding journey of love, longing, acceptance, and redemption.

Welcome to Hampshire, 1795, where a young Jane Austen has her sights set on securing a marriage proposal from the dashing Tom Lefroy at a local ball. But when a shocking discovery is made - a milliner's lifeless body tucked away in a linen closet - Jane finds herself embroiled in an unexpected murder mystery. As she races against the clock to clear her beloved brother Georgy's name, Jane uses her sharp wits to navigate the treacherous waters of society, unmasking secrets and unearthing hidden motives along the way. With every twist and turn, Jane's determination to solve the case deepens.

Miss Hortense uses her skills to investigate the investments of the Pardner network - a special community of Black investors, determined to help their people succeed. But when an unidentified man is found dead in one of the Pardner's homes, a bible quote noted down beside his body, Miss Hortense's long buried past comes rushing back to greet her, bringing memories of the worst moment of her life, one which her community has never let her forget.

Only 22, Emma learned to bake at the side of a master, Ezra Kuchen, the village baker since before she was born. Apprenticed to Ezra at 13, Emma watched with shame and anger as her kind mentor was forced to wear the six-pointed yellow star on his clothing. She was likewise powerless to help when they pulled Ezra from his shop at gunpoint, the first of many villagers stolen away and never seen again. In the years that her sleepy coastal village has suffered under the enemy, Emma has silently, stealthily fought back.

In December 1926, Agatha Christie goes missing. Investigators find her empty car on the edge of a deep, gloomy pond, the only clues some tire tracks nearby and a fur coat left in the car - strange for a frigid night. Her World War I veteran husband and her daughter have no knowledge of her whereabouts, and England unleashes an unprecedented manhunt to find the up-and-coming mystery author. Eleven days later, she reappears, just as mysteriously as she disappeared, claiming amnesia and providing no explanations for her time away.

Mrs Death has had enough. She is exhausted from spending eternity doing her job, and now she seeks someone to unburden her conscience to. Wolf Willeford, a troubled young writer, is well acquainted with death but until now hadn't met Death in person - a Black, working-class woman who shape-shifts and does her work unseen. Enthralled by her stories, Wolf becomes Mrs Death's scribe and begins to write her memoirs. Using their desk as a conduit, Wolf travels across time and place with Mrs Death to witness deaths of past and present and discuss what the future holds for humanity.