Robin Paige est le pseudonyme du duo d'époux Bill et Susan Albert. Ensemble, ils ont créé une série de mystères victoriens et édouardiens se déroulant entre le milieu des années 1890 et le début des années 1900. Chaque épisode met en scène les détectives amateurs Kate Ardleigh Sheridan et Sir Charles Sheridan alors qu'ils élucident des affaires captivantes. Kate, une écrivaine irlando-américaine, et Charles, un noble éduqué passionné par les sciences forensiques, rencontrent des personnalités marquantes de leur époque tout en recherchant la vérité. Leur travail collaboratif mêle l'atmosphère historique à des récits policiers intrigants.
The plot unfolds with two seemingly accidental deaths linked to the Marconi telegraph station, involving a local girl's drowning. As Charles, Lord Sheridan, and his wife, Kate, become embroiled in these cases, they navigate a web of foreign espionage and malicious intrigue. Mysterious messages complicate the situation further, leading them into a world filled with danger and deception.
“A sentence to Dartmoor Prison is a sentence to a living hell…” Lord Charles Sheridan and his American wife, Kate, have heard some truly awful things about Britain’s most notorious prison. But Dartmoor and its mist-shrouded environs hold special appeal for both Sheridans. Kate hopes to find inspiration for her new Gothic novel, while Charles plans to implement a fingerprinting program at the prison—and arrange a meeting with one of its most infamous inmates, Samuel Spencer. He’s convinced that Spencer—a Scotsman who admitted to killing his wife—is, in fact, innocent. What’s more, he believes he has the evidence to prove it. But Spencer continues to maintain his own guilt—and, as if to confirm it, he soon stages a daring prison escape. Lord Charles and his acquaintance Arthur Conan Doyle are most perplexed by this odd turn of events. And when a body turns up on the moor, it’s up to the two men—and the clever Kate—to discover if the missing convict is connected to this murderous new case…
Set against the backdrop of a picturesque seaside holiday, Kathryn Ardleigh and her husband Charles find their retreat disrupted by the discovery of a coast guard's body. The quaint village, with its hidden tunnels from a smuggling past, becomes the center of suspicion. As they delve into the mystery, they team up with a young writer, Rudyard Kipling, uncovering secrets that suggest something sinister lurks beneath the town's charming facade.
Set against a backdrop of royal intrigue, the story follows Lord Charles Sheridan and his astute American wife, Kate, as they are tasked with uncovering the truth behind a prince living incognito at Glamis. Their mission to clear his name involves navigating deception and hidden identities, showcasing their wit and determination in a world of secrets.
Set against a backdrop of political intrigue, the story follows Kathryn Ardleigh and her husband, Charles, as they navigate a scandal involving Jennie Jerome Churchill. The revelation that Winston Churchill's father may have been Jack the Ripper threatens to derail Winston's promising political career. As they delve into this shocking claim, the couple must uncover the truth to protect the Churchill legacy and navigate the complexities of reputation and power in a tumultuous era.
Set against the backdrop of an auto exhibition at Kate's ancestral home, newlyweds Charles and Kate Sheridan find themselves entangled in a deadly competition among Europe's top investors and inventors. As tensions rise and a murder occurs, the couple must step into the role of amateur sleuths to uncover the truth and prevent further chaos. With themes of ambition and danger, the story blends intrigue with the high-stakes world of early automotive innovation.
Set against the backdrop of Victorian society, the story follows Sir Charles Sheridan, an amateur scientist and skilled detective, who is on the brink of becoming a baron, complicating his relationship with American writer Kate Ardleigh. Despite societal customs preventing their union, the two are repeatedly drawn together by intriguing murder cases that challenge their intellects and deepen their connection.
Kate Ardleigh is not a Victorian lady - outspoken, egalitarian, American, and a writer of penny-dreadfuls. Aunt Sabrina invites her to Essex England, for help with the Order of the New Dawn. Aunt Jagger beats the servants to suicide, and someone feeds her Death mushrooms. Next door, Sir Charles photographs a fresh body in an archaeological dig, and seeks his killer.
CRIME & MYSTERY. The marriage between the Duke of Marlborough and 17-year-old Consuelo Vanderbilt, the American railroad heiress, was the talk of two nations when it occurred in 1895. By 1903, the Duchess had produced the requisite heir-and-a-spare, and the Duke had taken a lover, the exotic, erotic Gladys Deacon. Kate and Charles are introduced to this uncomfortable menage a trois when they come to Blenheim Palace: Kate to work on a book about King Henry II and Fair Rosamund, and Charles to follow the trail of a team of jewelry thieves. Complex, richly detailed, full of surprises
Kathryn Ardleigh is everything the Victoria English gentlewoman is not -- outspoken, free-thinking, American.. and a writer of the frowned upon "penny-dreadfuls." She shocked her ancestral home at Bishop's Keep -- and captured the interest of detective Sir Charles Sheridan as they solved their first case together. Now the brutal demise of a local constable and the mysterious disappearance of a child have the sleuthing couple on the trail of deadly greed and criminal mischief once again. And with the help of a shy young woman who calls herself Beatrix Potter, Kate intends to uncover the sinister secrets of Gallows Green....
