Presents the history of life behind bars, from medieval times to the end of corporal and capital punishment in the 1950s. This title reveals the stories of real prisoners including the unknown, the no
1860, Wimborne, Dorset. Rebecca Tullidge, miserably married to her callous husband, is having an affair with a railway officer, who she finds dead on the railway tracks. Determined to win votes for th
When unexpected disaster strikes Lord Westfield's Men during a packed performance, Nicholas Bracewell must save the day. Will a vagabond clown prophesy the end of the troupe, and perhaps the demise of
In the final installment of the series, our beloved book keeper, Nicholas Bracewell takes his final bow as the curtain closes on Westfield's Men; but not before he solves just one more crime. Followin
Bracewell befriends a young beggar who is trying to eke out a living as a counterfeit crank, pretending to have epileptic fits in order to get money from gullible bystanders. When the beggar is murder
