Its late summer in Brighton and Clara is visiting the fairground, but when Oliver Bankes spots a body in the House of Curios what started out as a fun quickly becomes deadly serious. Who hides a body in a funfair and why? Clara has plenty of suspects to choose from, but very few clues. Meanwhile, Tommy Fitzgerald finds himself involved in a case of his own when a mother begs him to find her missing son. Only problem is the family is German and the son was an internee during the war. Tommy needs to overcome his own prejudices to find out what happened to Jurgen Smith two years ago. Little does...

Clara Fitzgerald was hoping for a quiet Christmas, but when the elderly Miss Sampford sends out a plea for help Brighton's first female private detective can hardly refuse. Miss Sampford believes someone is trying to scare her out of her house. A 'ghost' has her servants handing in their notice and the neighbours talking. Miss Sampford doesn't believe in ghosts anymore than Clara does, but something sinister is occurring in her home in Berkeley Square, London. Clara sets off to investigate, but soon finds she has been beaten to it by Mr Andrews, a self-professed ghost hunter who has been...