" My dear John, I left a note asking Margaret to give this notebook to you as you are the only man who could possibly even try and understand what happened that Christmas Eve so many years ago…"

It was a lovely spring morning when Thomas Deveruex made his way to the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre…

As he looked around the rehearsal room he knew he had his next victim…

Swann with a torrent of exhaling breath that came out as a great "Aggghhh!" clambered to his feet at the same time pulling a .45 Smith & Wesson revolver from a holster beneath his dress jacket…

The actors gather together…

With Detective Inspector Herbert Merriman Swann lost in his memories of India, Detective Sergeant John Parker made his way to the The Shakespeare Rooms to meet his wife…

Henry Donaldson’s "Trafalgar" takes to the Blackpool stage…

A Victorian online murder mystery set in Stratford-upon-Avon, starring Inspector Herbert Merriman Swann and Sergeant John Parker…