Book one of the Londum Series. A sweeping melodrama, full of romance, passion, death and betrayal. A country torn apart by divided loyalties as great armies battle each other. The story of a woman's struggle against overwhelming odds. Yes, what a great book "Gone With The Wind" was. However, about this book ... In an alternate Victorian England named Albion, Rufus Cobb, part time private detective, full time drunk, is having a rough time. Once a respected police officer at Caledonia Yard, he is now reduced to tracking lost dogs and unfaithful spouses to make ends meet. And just when he...

Book two of the Londum Series. A rousing tale of love, larceny, werewolves ... and whipped cream During a state visit to Albion, the Great Seal of Pils-Holstein is stolen. Private detective Rufus Cobb is called in by Caledonia Yard to recover the Seal and avoid an international incident. Meanwhile, a werewolf is stalking the East End of Londum, cold bloodedly killing its innocent victims, (and some not so innocent ones). Are the two things connected? Cobb and Jim Darby are sent to Pils-Holstein by the British Government to put an end to the werewolf menace once and for all but does Darby...

Book Three of the Londum Series. It's a pretty risky thing to travel to another Universe and rescue someone that you don't even like and generally isn't a recommended course of action. However, against his better judgement, Rufus Cobb is persuaded to do so by a beautiful woman. (Women eh?) Little does he know what he's letting himself in for. Before he's finished, he will find himself fulfilling someone's centuries old prophecy in an oppressed country, which may seem somewhat familiar. Captured by the Black Guard and subjected to the Castilian Questioning by the Grand Questioner himself,...

Book six of the Londum Series. In between rescuing a young girl from child slavery and saving a street full of tenants from an unscrupulous landlord, Jim Darby is planning one of the biggest heists of his career, when an old flame re-enters his life, seeking Jim's assistance to take down her travelling companion, Vincent Lassiter. However, Jim has to contend with Lassiter's man, Bolan, an ex-street fighter, who may be more than a match for Jim. Also there's as a new addition to Jim's list of annoyances, Inspector Herbert Corner of Caledonia Yard, who seems intent on finding out Jim's secrets....

Sometimes you can do bad things for good reasons. Ask Jim Darby, he knows better than most. After helping his lady friend, the Honourable Fiona Hetheringham, with a little insurance scam involving the staged theft of the famed Hetheringham Necklace, he's clandestinely approached by the British Secret Service, in the form of Thornton Wells, to do a little 'search and recovery' operation for them. A secret treaty between Rooskia and the Ostro-Ungarian Empire needs to be recovered from the Rooskian Embassy in Budapescht, so Jim obliges and hands it over to his Ungarian contact. Job done But...

Now contains all three of the Christmas books: A Londum Yuletide, Quantum of Solstice and Winter Shorts. From an alternate Victorian England called Albion, a collection of spooky stories set during the Yuletide season: Pub Talk While working on a case in the snowy village of Strapley-on-the-Wold during the Yuletide season, Rufus Cobb, private detective, has a casual conversation with a stranger in the village pub, the outcome of which may have dire consequences for the whole world. What would you say to a disillusioned Father Yule (the man who delivers toys to all the children of the world)...