Set in the early nineteenth-century English countryside, an English squire yields to the temptations of an innocent country girl, with crime, remorse, and suffering as the consequences.
When Angelo Coppola is tragically killed in a hit-and-run accident, the police are unable to track down the culprit, but Angelo's sister, Clare, cannot rest until she discovers the truth.
Fourteen-year-old Lucas leads a lonely, monotonous life in the house of his unpleasant guardian until the unexpected arrival of an unusual little girl and a series of events occur that completely change his life.
A strange friendship develops between an orphaned Chinese refugee who is spending the summer at Green Knowe and a gorilla who has escaped from the London Zoo.
Lord Peter Wimsey is trying to find the murderer of a local artists, but he finds that there are six main suspects, five who are being set up, and one who has created the perfect murder.
Emma, a self-assured young lady in Regency England, is determined to arrange her life and the lives of those around her into a pattern dictated by her romantic fancy.
Set against a backdrop of the sea, follows the thoughts and friendships of six characters at different stages of their lives, from childhood through old age.
British airman Dym Ingleford recognizes young German prisoner Max Eckermann as his little brother Tony who was kidnapped over ten years ago at the age of eighteen months, and brings the boy home where his family members struggle to love the child who remains stubbornly devoted to Hitler and Germany.
Embittered by a false accusation and disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner retreats into a life alone with his loom and his gold. Fate steals his gold and replaces it with a golden-haired foundling child.
