Fidelis, Luke (Fictitious character) -- Fiction

November, 1745. Preston, Lancashire. Rumours abound that Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender, has landed in Scotland, intent on marching south to claim the English throne. Meanwhile, a headless body is discovered in an icy pond. Coroner Titus Cragg thinks he has a lead when a head is event...

November, 1745. Preston, Lancashire. Rumours abound that Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender, has landed in Scotland, intent on marching south to claim the English throne. Meanwhile, a headless body is discovered in an icy pond. Coroner Titus Cragg thinks he has a lead when a head is event...

1747. County Coroner Titus Cragg has been called to the scene of a gruesome slaughter at a rural farmhouse. Meanwhile, his friend Dr Luke Fidelis is a guest at nearby Orford Hall, where a blackened body is discovered deep beneath the hot-house. Cragg and Fidelis are asked to investigate, and unco...

It's the sweltering summer of 1744 and when an epidemic disease threatens the town, coroner Titus Cragg retires with his wife and baby son to a remote village in East Lancashire, where he hopes his family will enjoy the healthy tranquil air. But Cragg finds the rural atmosphere anything but peace...

The year is 1742, and the people of Preston are looking forward to their ancient once-every-twenty-years festival of merriment and excess, the Preston Guild. But the prospect darkens as the town plunges into a financial crisis caused by the death of pawnbroker and would-be banker Philip Pimbo, ap...

April, 1746. When County Coroner Titus Cragg is called to examine a body found shot to death at a local farm, he finds himself drawn into a case where nothing is as it first appears. As he attempts to track down a mysterious contract signed by the dead man, Titus realizes that if he does not find...

April, 1746. When County Coroner Titus Cragg is called to examine a body found shot to death at a local farm, he finds himself drawn into a case where nothing is as it first appears. As he attempts to track down a mysterious contract signed by the dead man, Titus realizes that if he does not find...

1743. The tanners of Preston are a pariah community, plying their unwholesome trade beside a stretch of riverside marsh where many Prestonians by ancient right graze their livestock. When the body of a newborn child is found in one of their tanning pits, Cragg's enquiry falls foul of a cabal of m...