Rosalind Laker

With the crimson, emerald and purple plumes of their hats streaming out behind them, four young men rode at speed into the village of Versailles one May morning in 1664, scattering squawking geese in their path."We should have been here hours ago," Augustin Roussier yelled to his companions, making...

In the summer of 1903, a bizarre story was headlined in newspapers across the country. Annie Oaidey, the toast of two continents, star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, had been arrested for stealing in order to buy morphine. It wasn't true, of course. Actually arrested was a drug-addicted...

CHAPTER iThree men in a boat. Four if you counted the corpse."A bit further," Jackman ordered quietly from the stern, and the dark shadows that were Steevenson and Parsons hunched forward over their oars. There was no moon. Only the faint swirl of phosphorescence marked their passage as they slid...

CHAPTER ONE For as long as ten-year-old Francesca Visser could remember she had been intensely aware of the colours of her world. The golden gleam of her mother's neatly dressed hair. The azure sparkle of Amsterdam's many canals vmder a summer sky and their frosty grey-green brilliance when...

They were aflFectionately referred to as the "garbage class": eight physically and emotionally handicapped children who didn't fit in anywhere else. Add to that a cramped classroom and untrained assistantsit was more than Torey Hayden, a gifted young teacher, had bargained for.Then, to complicate...

OK, so here I am, Lee Morris, opening doors and windows to gusts of life and early death. They looked pretty harmless on my doorstep: two middle-aged civil Englishmen in country-gent tweeds and flat caps, their eyebrows in unison raised enquiringly, their shared expression one of embarrassed...