Maggie is accosted at The Imperial War Museum and given a collection ticket for J.D. Beltinge & Sons. She and husband Malcolm go to the address in Chancery Lane to be met by Jedson Beltinge himself. He tells them his story and they get embroiled in black magic to try and find out why Jedson is still alive after 200 years and how to break the curse he is under put on him by Mirelda one of the many Devil's daughters on May Day Eve.

Atlantis has long been the source of legends, myths and folklore. Even Plato and Herodotus, the latter generally called 'The Father of History' and who wrote about his various visits to other lands, has often been dismissed as telling 'tall tales' Plato was only a little more successful in being believed. However, in recent times, Herodotus and Plato have begun to be taken seriously and some have even tried to calculate the route they could possibly have taken even though they were writing thousands of years after the event was supposed to have taken place Many theories have been proffered...

Mystery Fiction General Nicholas Flimby and Marcus Townsend, are friends when Marcus telephones Nicholas about a snippet of news in the paper regarding a sword found on a farm near the River Taw in Devon. this triggers a long forgotten memory about Nicholas' father who was present at the raising of a Viking ship many years before and a sword that was found near the Viking ship together with his friend, Professor Andrew Philpott who had just died and left all his estate to Marcus' University. This sets Nicholas and Marcus on a journey back through time when Nicholas finds the name of a Roman...