1. The Fireraisers
Dundee, Scotland, 1862. After the mill of businessman Matthew Beaumont burns to the ground, Detective Sergeant George Watters is sent to investigate. Soon, George discovers that this is not the first property that has been targeted. When a man is found dead in the hold of…
2. The Atlantic Street Murder
From hunting pickpockets in London omnibuses and ghosts in Hesse Square, Sergeant Watters and Detective Silver are led into the notorious Wild Geese public house, and a tangled mystery that involves the murder of a guardsman and the vivacious wife of an Austrian diplomat. With the…
3. Murdered on the 13th
Dundee, 1860s. Sergeant George Watters and his team investigate the murder of a local banker, found dead on the 13th tee of a local golf course. Illicit prizefighters, merchants and prostitutes all seem to be somehow connected to the murder, and even the toughest of Dundee…
4. The Scuttlers
When Sergeant George Watters is assigned to a scuttling case, he thinks he can solve it in a few days. Instead, he discovers a connection to a string of burglaries of high-value shops and hotels across Dundee. Things take a turn for the worse when one…
5. Not a Pukka Gentleman
Dundee in the nineteenth century. Sergeant George Watters is stretched across three investigations at once: a poisoning, the kidnapping of boys from poor families and a peculiar series of attacks involving clocks and watches. The arrival of a circus and a raid on an illegal gambling…
6. A Carriage for Lochee
Sergeant George Watters is already occupied with illegal drinking dens in Dundee and Lochee when an influential merchant reports a murder and the theft of a carriage. The inquiry leads Watters and Detective Scuddamore among travelling families, Russian dissidents and memories of an unresolved incident from…
7. The Broughty Ferry Murder
Dundee, 1870. Now an inspector, George Watters is ordered to investigate a railway robbery whose consequences reach toward Broughty Ferry and a new murder. The expansion of rail travel gives criminals speed and anonymity, while commercial pressure and official expectations make a quick solution politically desirable.…