In order to reform idle convicts and combat crime that plagued the Victorian era, Sir William Cubitt invented the “everlasting staircase" in 1818. It was a large, imposing 24-spoked paddlewheel ...

“The Victorian era was a comfort zone for me,” Mr. Lovesey ... Diamond debuted in “The Last Detective” (1991) as he investigated the murder of a former soap opera star in Bath.

Mr. Lovesey would go on to write more than 40 mysteries, a quarter of them Victorian-era police procedurals ... Image “The Detective Wore Silk Drawers,” Mr. Lovesey’s second novel, involved ...

Enola is the fictionalized younger sister of the legendary Sherlock Holmes, a Victorian-era detective characterized by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. Enola's story has been adapted from the ...