The year is 1911. Chief Investigator Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency has had many extraordinary cases before. But none quite like this. Hired to find a young woman named Anna Pape who ran away from home to become an actress, Bell gets a shock when her murdered body turns up instead. Vowing to bring the killer to justice, he begins a manhunt which leads him into increasingly more alarming territory. Anna Pape was not alone in her fate--petite...

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While fleeing from the cops, small time hood Harry Lockhart stumbles into an acting audition. He does so well he goes to Hollywood. While there, Harry pursues a girl he loved in high school and ends up getting caught up in twisted murder mystery. His only chance of getting out alive is a private detective named Gay Perry, who also works as a consultant for movies.

Eliza Scarlet joins forces with a Scotland Yard inspector to solve crime in nineteenth century London. "Set in the same 1850s [that is, 1880s] London society that gave rise to Jack the Ripper, this British detective drama features a fearless, independent heroine ... With her inquisitive mind, Miss Eliza Scarlet has always been more interested in running her late father's detective agency than behaving like a proper lady, much to the chagrin of family...