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Requested by a frightened Lady Elisabeth Montague, Holmes and Watson travel all the way to the Montague home, situated on a remote desolate island, to investigate her somewhat fanciful fears. Are the family in mortal danger? And why have the Montagues, once the darlings of London society, now shut themselves away from civilization in this bleak, god-forsaken retreat?

Minnie Millie is the station cleaner who likes to look after her engine friends. But her friends, Little Titch and Gideon, want to know just who is it who controls all the Mainland engines. To find out, they must go all the way to the Big City, where the biggest surprise of all is waiting for them....

Sally Steamy is an engine who doesn't seem to like Christmas at all. Sally wants to keep herself busy and believe Christmas is just another day. Can Little Titch and a magical Christmas adventure somehow change her mind?

Rust Bucket is an old engine who lives on a lost railway. Little Titch wakes up on an old, rusty railway track. He doesn't know where he is or how he even came to be there. Back home, Gideon and Minnie Millie desperately search for their friend. Can they ever find the lost little engine?

Toc Toc is a clockwork engine who holds the secret to the tick and the tock. Little Titch, Gideon, and Minnie Millie come to the Clockwork Village with a cog, spindle, and wheel to fix the Great Clock. But what lies behind the towering clock face? And why, for a clockwork village, is there neither a tick nor a tock?

Gideon is a big, kind engine with a huge crane arm. But when he meets an even bigger engine, Massive Mandy, she is always very rude to him. With the help of his friends, can Gideon somehow find the softer side of the bad-tempered engine?

Say hello to Little Titch, the small engine with a big heart. Little Titch feels very small next to his good friend, the kind and very big engine, Gideon. But when Gideon forgets something important, it's up to the littlest of little engines to save the day....

A new recruit is assigned to be Hitler's personal bodyguard.

One murder. Three suspects. Each has their own very different story to tell of an ill-fated stay at the Saunderson family remote country residence, Three Sisters. But, will it be left to the final report of Inspector Mackenzie to shed any light on this most baffling of crimes?

Before... A young woman cycles precariously through a snowy wonderland, carrying the most precious gift of all... After... A troubled family encounter a stranger on the bleakest of Christmas Eves - a man who knows far more about them than he possibly could. And what exactly is this "gift of Christmas" he so reverently speaks of...?

What is so special about Space Pilot Harrys? True, he values his individuality above anything else. He is even weary of being one-bonded with his female. But, just before the dawn of the next millennium, Harrys' belief system is about to be blown wide apart. Because, across the immense vastness of Space, the Prime is waiting for him...

At last, after 165 years, the sequel to The Man in the Iron Mask... 17th Century France, two years after D'Artagnan's death: Deep beneath the Palais de Versailles, Aramis is shocked and astonished by the directives of D'Artagnan's Legacy. To follow, he must betray his honour; his King and, perhaps most damning of all, his fellow Musketeers. The Sun King will be eclipsed by darkness once more... Or can the ageing Musketeers really reunite, for one last time - for the glory of France?

Rabia, a green engine, arrives here, at the Mainland, all the way from there, faraway Africa. Little Titch, Gideon and Minnie Millie go to meet her, but why has Rabia really come—and why does she want to run away..?

The incorrigible Inspector Lestrade takes the lead, as he likes to view it, in 4 investigations, 'helped' of course by Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. Be there, as Lestrade shoelaces are tied up with Watson's and Lestrade actually getting it right for once, over the great Sherlock Holmes.

At her first day at High School, Claire meets a new friend, Mel–who invites her to a curious club that seems to come from the Victorian time....

Claire and Mel follow a clue to the local Victoriana Fun Fair, which seems to be a little bit funny…
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A Victorian Mystery 2 of 4

Claire starts to feel there is a Victorian visitor who may want to contact her. But who is the Victorian visitor, one of her new friends–or someone else..?

On the way to visiting Claire’s friend, Alice, in the country, Claire and Mel take a literal leap down a rabbit hole into an surreal, amazing, and wonderous world....

I am Claire. I am a 12-year-old girl. I meet a new friend, Mel, and we slowly investigate a mystery, which becomes very Victorian...

1985, one year on, and Winston is diligently erasing and rewriting history in his position at the Ministry of Truth. Winston loves Big Brother and wants to forget he ever thought about plotting against the Party. But, at the Chestnut Tree Café, at a chance encounter, Julia seems to leave Winston a cryptic message to meet...