Blogs in January 1970

Beneath the Shadows 1st January 1970

When Grace’s husband, Adam, inherits a cottage on the isolated North Yorkshire moors, they leave London behind to try a new life. However, a week later, Adam vanishes, leaving their baby daughter on the doorstep. The following year, Grace...

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Northanger Abbey 1st January 1970

Catherine grows up to be a passably pretty girl and is invited to spend a few weeks in Bath with a family friend. While there she meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor, who invite her to visit their...

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Worm in the Bud (#1) 1st January 1970

In Birmingham a local journalist is found dead in his home. A puncture wound in his arm a testimony to his death by lethal injection, the cryptic note by his side: ‘no more’, seems at first to suggest suicide...

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Play to the End 1st January 1970

Approaching his fiftieth birthday, actor Toby Flood arrives in Brighton for the final performances of Lodger in the Throat following a ten-week regional tour. The tour had not gone well, with a hoped-for West End transfer unlikely to eventuate....

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The Bronze Box 1st January 1970

An ancient artefact is stolen, an archaeologist is killed. Dr Sasha Blake is recruited by a covert organisation, The Agency, to find the truth before the Bronze Box falls into the hands of an International criminal known only as...

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