Rare books and manuscripts have disappeared from important Swiss and Italian libraries. A vague tip from an arrested fence in Amsterdam seems to implicate someone within the English community at Zuric
Bronze sculptures representing the Chinese Zodiac were looted by Western troops from the Imperial Palace Garden at Beijing during the Opium Wars of the 19th Century. Most of these bronzes have already
What is the connection between a select boys' boarding school in northwest England, a professional conman and a foreign intelligence service? After a major crime is committed on the French Riviera, Sc
Leonard Parks is an agent of the U.K. Inland Revenue who goes missing while conducting a series of interviews with wealthy British expatriates living in Europe. Are these individuals merely concerned
Inspector George Mason of Scotland Yard Special Branch, together with his able assistant Detective Sergeant Alison Aubrey, are charged with identifying the person behind a series of attacks on finance
A visiting professor from Germany has been found dead of unnatural causes at a natural history museum in London, where he cut a controversial figure. Is his demise a result of acute rivalries within t
