World’s End Bureau Mysteries

The World’s End Bureau Mysteries follow private enquiry agents Lily Raynor and Felix Wilbraham in London in the early 1880s. Their investigations move from séances and missing schoolgirls to Russian refugees, rural murder, a Breton asylum and human remains uncovered behind Tower Hill.

The series uses Victorian detective work to explore spiritualism, class, girls’ education, migration, mental health institutions and the precarious lives of people who cannot rely on the police or established social authority. Lily’s controlled intelligence and Felix’s persistence anchor cases that range across London, the Fens, Kent and France while remaining closely tied to the social pressures of late Victorian Britain.