A fossil has been discovered and they're saying it could prove Dr Durant's heretical theory of evolution - but no-one's allowed to see it. When Adam, who can remember nothing before his twelfth birthday, breaks into the cave, he discovers something that could literally change the world. It might be evolution in action but only if it's being run by someone who doesn't understand it properly. Meanwhile, a mutilated corpse sets Sergeant Hammett on the trail of a victim who may never have existed. At least, not until people noticed. Oh, and there's the strange burglar who breaks in to mend...

A body in an old house A mysterious stranger The ghost of a First World War infantryman All linked to the story of three deserters a series of war crimes and the identity of the Unknown Soldier Death Us Do Part a play by Stuart Farquhar

'The sea is alive. Oh, yes it is.' Mermaids are just in folk tales. They don't really exist. Do they? The people of Anterwendt think they do - there's one in the museum - and when Adam and Jana arrive on their way to the New World, they get caught up in local tensions, Imperial intrigue and some ancient and powerful folklore. And then the circus comes to town, but its array of self-proclaimed freaks aren't the strangest new arrivals, inflaming old prejudices and exposing dark secrets in a fishing community where shipwrecks are a part of daily life and the beach is haunted by ... well,...