Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

Murder and political intrigue are the key elements in this mystery novel set in exotic and politically tense 13th century Sicily. "Murder at the Leopard" uses a detailed knowledge of the period and locale with many of the characters taken straight out of the...

The Valley of the Kings 1222 BC. The tomb of Thutmose III has been desecrated, plundered by thieves. Cretan forensic pharmacologist Nikolas of Kydonia is commissioned by Pharaoh Ramesses II to lead the investigation to locate and punish the guilty. Once again Nikolas and...

Ellen Gallagher and Maria Gonzales, taken hostage at their Tucson dress shop by a hired killer, are hauled unceremoniously into Arizona's most inhospitable desert. When Ellen's husband, Southern Pacific Railroad Detective Pima Gallagher; her daughter, 14-year-old Scout Walker; and Maria's husband, Jose, set out...

A party of crooks seeks to overthrow a Caribbean monarachy, ousting Prince Marcos in favor of his corrupt Cousin, Miguel-who happens to be the target of one of Nick Carter's investigations.Author: Nicholas CarterISBN-10: 1479471062ISBN-13: 9781479471065Publisher: Wildside PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/25/2022Pages: 92Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 9.00h x...

Two rings, made of silver and with jade-eyed dragons, were rumored to bring great prosperity to their owners. After a murder attempt, two friends split the rings and vow to help each other from then on, using the sign of the dragon to identify...

When The Town Crier, the semi-weekly newspaper for which Ted Wilford writes and Nelson Morgan takes pictures during their college vacations, decides to bring the statewide baseball tournament to Forestdale, Ted and Nelson need about ten hands and a forty-eight hour day to handle...

On the pleasure boats of the Old Mississippi, passions ran high when men gambled for the favors of beautiful women -- and renegades carried off girls along with other loot.Disguised as a notorious outlaw, hot-blooded Dave Macdonough invaded the river rogues' hideout in a...

Though he did work for a small-town newspaper, Ken Svederup had been around, and to him the expense-paid trip he had won for a front-page news beat seemed pretty phony. But never look a gift horse... He was off to meet the Big Boss...

When "The Town Crier," the semi-weekly newspaper for which Ted Wilford writes and Nelson Morgan takes pictures during their college vacations, decides to bring the statewide baseball tournament to Forestdale, Ted and Nelson need about ten hands and a forty-eight hour day to handle...

Frank Cullen & Donald McNeilly, recipients of The Theatre Museum of NYC's 2011 Award for Excellence in the Preservation of Theatre History, have unearthed another Porridge Sisters' adventure. Murder at the Orpheum Theatre, the third of the projected seven Porridge Sisters Adventure, occurs in...

Brad Winwood fell in love with Princess Diana, when he was a teenage boy, he later met her on the minefield of Angola and was there the night she died in Paris. This is his storyAuthor: The Crown Princess Diana Angola TeenISBN-10: 1479260053ISBN-13: 9781479260058Publisher:...

Without the use of modern technology, James Hawley Muller experiences time travel to the decade of the 1950s. Expectations of finding past happiness and comfort are confronted with tragic reality in the small bustling town of Lenoir, North Carolina. A dramatic conclusion to his...

Private Investigator, Mike Tine, finds himself empty-handed, beaten and unable to return to his home; a small apartment above his most trusted friend's restaurant, Mitchy's. As he searches for the girl a mysterious client has hired him to find, and then the client himself,...

In 1880, Samantha Slater, a feisty 19-year old, comes to the central Texas town of Lowell's Crossing to take a job as a typewriter operator at the Lone Star newspaper. Before the day is over, George Stanley, her new boss, is dead and Samantha's...

Drew McKinney always believed that Catherine Westwater's disdain for him stemmed from the fact that her son was his enemy. But when he learns the truth about her past, his suspicions grow about her hostility toward him. Now his friends have become targets of...

In the fifth Colton Banyon mystery, Banyon and his sidekick, Loni are called to Death Valley just as they are about to attend a wedding in Las Vegas. The wedding is very significant as one of the Patel sisters is marrying Eric, Wolf's long...

The dogs of war are howling as a new generation of brutal, authoritarian leaders tighten their grip on power... and begin to look beyond their own borders. In Europe, Adolf Hitler orders the German Army back into the Rhineland - forbidden territory since the...

It's 1941. Naval Reserve officer Chuck Collings has just graduated from the University of Washington with a Masters of Fisheries degree. His naval service has been delayed while he continues his research in salmon reproduction in the small town of Lofall. Chuck's job on...

Three murders and two attempts on his life was not what USAF investigator, Major Charlie Snider bargained for when he was dispatched to the island of Taiwan to investigate alleged irregularities in the Air Force's Taiwan Contracting Center. This is a novel of conspiracy,...

- Site of a silver mine in late 1900s - Town destroyed by fire - Today a ghost townAuthor: Charles E. MillerISBN-10: 1466999586ISBN-13: 9781466999589Publisher: Trafford PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/16/2013Pages: 152Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.33d

When a dead body turns up in a pile of trash at the city incinerator, Jacksonville's status as a serene wintering locale for wealthy northerners is called into question. Police Chief Charles Cooper wants only to solve a murder, reassuring the year's crop of...

The Library Kids Talking Stones is the 4th of a 7 book series that continues with the children learning the importance of messages in stone by studying ancient artifacts at the Chicago Oriental Museum and then studying the history of Mount Rushmore.The crystal mission...

An eight year old savagely murdered. A strange foreigner accused. In the boom town of 1860s Hokitika being different could be deadly.Author: F. J. ColeISBN-10: 1461033012ISBN-13: 9781461033011Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/24/2011Pages: 38Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.10lbsSize: 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.08d

Strange Blue features lawman John Webb. who wants to apply scientific principles in the pursuit of justice. He arrives in Teller, Colo., eager to work with the legendary marshal, Adz Donelson. When the marshal's chief deputy and a saloon girl are murdered, Webb gets...

Music for the Sun King is a murder mystery set in 17th century France at the time of the Sun King, Louis XIV. The investigation of a crime committed many years ago sets in motion a series of events that culminate in the murder...

September 1939, Miss Joan Lambert, a stylish young college teacher from Texas, moves among anxious passengers boarding the Lorraine at Le Havre. Her first trip to France has been interrupted by German aggression and angry clouds of international war Relieved by her good fortune...

On a cold February night in 1909, the nephew of President Theodore Roosevelt tumbled out of a window at Harvard and fell five stories to his death. "An accident," swore the coroner; "a horrible tragedy," stated the family; "a sobering loss," announced the College...

Once again, after many years, here is the first book in the critically acclaimed Josiah Beede series of historical mysteries. Critics praised its "richly realized setting and period details, impeccable plotting, and a wise hero made more appealing by his foibles." Set in New...

THE LAST BLACK CROSS delves deep into a true account of how SS Nazi officers heap vicious brutality on a young German medical student and other male and female inmates until the Russian army liberates prisoners near the end of the conflict. The story...

An American version of Miss Marple in 1903, Gracie Evans, a retired spinster farmer, tries to resign herself to the fact she now lives in Moser Mansion, a rest home for women, in Locked Rock, Iowa. That small town is never the same again...

In the midst of the great depression, a small town southern farmer is accused of murder and sentenced to hang. This is the story of his unconventional fight for justice and the unfailing love of the good woman who stood by him through it...

It's 1969 and a young soldier is in a life or death situation in Vietnam, and half way around the world, an elderly man by the name of Harvey Beason is alone and dying of cancer. Haunted by his past and the birth of...

Queen Lucia is a novel written by E. F. Benson, first published in 1920. The book is set in the fictional English village of Riseholme and tells the story of the social climbing and petty rivalries of its inhabitants. The central character is Lucia,...

Huntingtower is a novel by John Buchan, first published in 1922. The book is set in Scotland and follows the adventures of Dickson McCunn, a retired grocer who becomes embroiled in a series of thrilling escapades. When McCunn travels to the small town of...

The most terrible criminals...don't need to hide.Life on the streets of Paris is not easy for most people, but for seven-year-old Larouche, it is all he has known. He may be small and young, but he's clever. He gets by, relying on his wits....

Herein chronicles the exploits and adventures of Arsène Lupin, a burglar who blends effortlessly into high society, adapting a gentlemanly persona as a cover for his criminal misdeeds. This classic crime caper established the antihero character of Arsène Lupin, who is the archetypal gentleman...

The fifth book in the Magic Men series, Now You See Them is a wild mystery with detective Edgar Stephens and the magician Max Mephisto, as they investigate a string of presumed kidnappings in the swinging 1960s. The new decade is going well for...

Detective Jeremiah Walker's estranged wife, Ruth, is in serious trouble after her lover is found shot in the Necropolis cemetery. Knowing she will be held to account and could face the gallows, Ruth returns to the marital home she had abandoned to beg for...

Author: James PomerantzISBN-10: 1970844183ISBN-13: 9781970844184Publisher: Manhattan Book GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/20/2026Pages: 234Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d

The second mystery following Ali Dawson, the brilliant time-traveling detective, on her newest foray into Victorian London Detective Ali Dawson leads a unit that investigates cases so cold her team must travel back in time to solve them. But ever since their technical expert,...

In postwar London, a quiet neighborhood is unsettled by the discovery of a young mother and her child hidden in a garden shed. Fear spreads quickly, and the investigation turns to the most obvious suspect: the husband, Henry Richardson-a nervous, unsophisticated man who struggles...

In a town where everyone knows your name, the quietest secrets are the most dangerous.Chillicothe, Illinois, 1952. On the surface, Second Street hums with everyday life-bakery doors opening at dawn, library lamps glowing at dusk, and familiar faces moving through routines polished by decades....

When a Kensington widow inherits a small panel painting, a woman reading a letter by a window in the manner of the Dutch masters, the art world holds takes an interest. Could this be a lost Vermeer, smuggled through two centuries of European upheaval...

When retired naturalist Aldous Prichard begins finding birds dead on his Hampshire woodland, with no wounds, no disease, and no explanation, he writes to Sherlock Holmes not in alarm, but in bewilderment. What ensues are dead ends and evidence that leads nowhere or cannot...

When Admiral Sir Reginald Carlton arrives at 221B Baker Street on a grey February afternoon, he brings a problem that touches both personal grief and national security. His nephew, Lieutenant Peter Carlton, has been found dead in his Portsmouth lodgings, officially from heart failure,...

A socialite living in late-1930s New York City disappears without a trace in Unseasonably Cold, Amy Ephron's elegant, melancholy noir of secrets, misapprehensions, and deceptions.Replete with beautifully observed period detail and sharply drawn characters, Unseasonably Cold is classic storytelling, a mystery crafted with an...

When milliner Adelaide Whitmore is found dead in her locked workroom on Regent Street, all evidence points to her business rival across the street. Miss Daventry-a Frenchwoman with knowledge of chemistry and a history of bitter feuding with the deceased-seems the obvious culprit. Inspector...

When a night watchman vanishes from the British Museum and an Egyptian mummy is found disturbed, Dr. Francis Ralston summons the one man who can solve the impossible: Sherlock Holmes. But the clues make no sense. Chemical residues that are both ancient and wrong,...

When a distinguished astronomer is found dead in a locked observatory at Greenwich, the case appears devastatingly simple. The suicide has been documented with scientific precision: three chronometers stopped at the exact moment of death, powder burns confirming close-range discharge, and medical testimony from...

A terrified scholar arrives at 221B Baker Street with tales of murder most foul. Professor Edmund Willis, respected medievalist at the isolated Northgate College, has been found dead in a locked library-his final words a cryptic warning in Latin: venenum and umbra. Poison and...