Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

Paraguay, 1868 A war against Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay has devastated Paraguay. Ninety percent of the males between the ages of eight and eighty have died. Food is scarce. In the small village of Santa Caterina, Padre Gregorio advises the women of his congregation...

September, 1777.The war for American independence rages just seventy miles away from the country inn and tavern owned by the Rutledge family in southern New Jersey. Tensions are running high between those who support the Continental Army and those who remain loyal to the...

In the summer of 1888, a physician at Philadelphia's Women's Hospital, turns to attorney Cecil Lawrence to help free a former patient who has been unjustly committed to an insane asylum by her husband. Cecil seeks the assistance of Tom Kassel, a cop turned...

Mona Moon is not your typical 1930s young lady. She is a cartographer by trade, an explorer by nature, an adventurer by heart, and she's also rich as Midas. There's just one problem. Some folks of the establishment don't like Mona's progressive ideas for...

This Victorian mystery novel, alive with passion, conflict, and intrigue, presents a riveting tale that will keep you reading late into the night.Author: Wilkie CollinsISBN-10: 1731700822ISBN-13: 9781731700827Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/25/2018Pages: 826Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.62lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.83d

A fictional story by Simon Weitzman based on the life and times of Frank Christian. The Former Augusta National archivist and photographer goes in search of information about his family history and uncovers a far darker story of murder, revenge and a long simmering...

Passionate lovers and deadly secrets. It's a scorching July in the summer of 1884. William Pinkerton has sent Oliver Redcastle to the Midwestern island paradise of Put-in-Bay.The assignment seems simple: capture a tight-rope-walking train robber. But two beautiful women, a dangerous cult, and reminders...

Wedding plans for high school teachers Harrison Barrett and Celeste Scott are put on hold after finding a murder victim's cryptic message scrawled on a pioneer cemetery headstone. As the couple investigates the mysterious warning, Celeste becomes inescapably linked to a centuries-old legend rooted...

THE DANCER FROM THE DANCE. In 1909 the entire world of dance changed forever when Les Ballets Russes, under the brilliant impresario, Serge Diaghilev, departed St. Petersburg and opened in Paris. They also made annual visits to the West End in London. Tragically, during...

Need MORE Sherlock? You are at the right place.THE HORROR OF THE BASTARD'S VILLA. A Scottish clergyman and his faithful border collie visit 221B and tell a tale of a ghostly Banshee on the Isle of Skye. After the specter appeared, two people died....

The Final Equation - A Sherlock Holmes & Elizabeth Bennet Mystery Could this be the final problem for London's favored detective and his associate? As Elizabeth's confidence in her own abilities has grown, so has Holmes' reliance on her. And now, he's going to...

A Kentucky teenager recruits friends to bring down a human trafficking ring in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.War never ends: It sends shock waves down through the generations that follow. Russell Ray Teague is a Kentucky teenager whose life is turned upside down...

"This gritty, first-person narrative drives the reader back into their seats and is compelled to read more about Patrick Moses and his partner, Krause." -A Reader's HeavenAfter a shocking kidnapping case in New York City, Patrick Moses is summoned back to Chicago to help...

"A thrilling adventure that will stick with you long after the final page has been read." -NY Department of EducationAfter the shocking murder of his father, Patrick Moses is forced back into duty in the crime-plagued Levee District. The mysterious, blonde-haired mute, a man...

"The Revenant's bounty shall be paid by me personally. The Revenant's killer must present her head to me." Such was the decree of Colonel Bozzo-Corona, all-powerful master of the Black Coats. For years, the female vigilante had used the methods of her late mentor,...

Who is the Baron de Saint-Magloire? Coming from nowhere, he has quickly become the most prominent banker in Paris. Ministers and generals flock to his parties, and he has no equal when it comes to amassing money through speculations. But what is his relationship...

Healing secrets and a battle for survival await in Eden SpringsKate Tyler is already in a life crisis when she inherits Howard's Walk in Eden Springs, North Carolina, after the sudden death of her twin sister, Rebecca. The last thing she wants is to...

Commissario Guido Brunetti's hopes for a refreshing family holiday in the mountains are once again dashed when a gruesome discovery is made in Marghera--a body so badly beaten the face is completely unrecognizable. Brunetti searches Venice for someone who can identify the corpse but...

National Indie Excellence Award Winner for Historical Fiction Plucked from a personal hell, Molly Ferguson--now a Pinkerton agent--ventures far behind enemy lines in the Deep South to spy for the Union Molly Ferguson's comfortable life unravels when her Louisiana home is burned to the...

In March, 1933, Fay Wray is on hand for the world premiere of King Kong at Radio City Music Hall. She's upset because she's just received an extortion note from someone claiming to have dirty pictures of her. The studio hires Jimmy Quinn to...

Jimmy Quinn knows about bombs. He was there at the 1920 Wall St. bombing. But he doesn't know what to think when another one goes off behind his speakeasy. It's the latest in a series of suspicious goings-on. A moderately corrupt police detective offers...

Linford Pratt had once during one of his visits to the town Reference Library, lighted on a maxim of that other unscrupulous person, Prince Talleyrand: "With time and patience the mulberry leaf is turned into satin." This seemed to Linford Pratt one of the...

With the war ending, Cissy LaRoque no longer needs to spy but that will not stop her from finding a new career where she can prove her worth beyond serving as some man's appendage. Provoked and titillated by a man she cannot have but...

An engrossing and puzzling mystery set in the 1930s which centers around the sudden disappearance of a rich young sportsman during a visit to Havana.Author: Joan SangerISBN-10: 1590774817ISBN-13: 9781590774816Publisher: M. Evans and CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/25/2014Pages: 318Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 7.50h x 5.00w x 1.10d

Author: George HermanISBN-10: 1583486275ISBN-13: 9781583486276Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1999Pages: 364Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.17lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d

Winter, 1890. A deep freeze has fallen upon London, and its citizens remain huddled indoors. But the cogs of the criminal underworld never stop turning, and Holmes and Watson find themselves embroiled in a crime that rocks the centre of the art world. Sir...

The unnamed narrator is discussing with the famous Parisian amateur detective C. Auguste Dupin some of his most celebrated cases when they are joined by the Prefect of the Police, a man known as G-. The Prefect has a case he would like to...

Hidden in plain sight A secret personal diary disguised as a classic work of literature. Keep all of your diary entries hidden, cleverly disguised so prying eyes will never find them. Works perfectly when placed on a bookshelf among other books. Continues to work...

The Mysterious Key is a classic mystery novel by Louisa May Alcott. Trevlyn lands and Trevlyn gold, Heir nor heiress e'er shall hold, Undisturbed, till, spite of rust, Truth is found in Trevlyn dust. "This is the third time I've found you poring over...

A beautiful young woman, just weeks away from giving birth, arrives at Baker Street in the middle of the night. Her sister was attacked by a bat and died and now it is attacking her. Could it be a vampire sent by the local...

Book two in the series.When foreign language teacher Celeste Scott is asked by police to help translate a strange note found on a mummified corpse, she and science teacher Harrison Barrett are drawn into the intriguing history of the Byron Hot Springs Resort. Their...

The House by the Church-Yard (1863) is a novel by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. An important source for James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, The House by the Church-Yard is a hybrid of the mystery and historical genres of fiction. With its complex use of side...

RAISE THE HUE AND CRY A wealthy merchant has been murdered in his own home, and the suspect has fled to sanctuary in a local church. Enter Sir Faucon de Ramis, the king's new Keeper of the Pleas, to solve the murder, assisted by...

Here is the most famous of fiction detectives--Charlie Chan--on one of his toughest cases. And here is the chilling adventure, the perplexing mystery--and the amusing humor and likeable characters that mean Earl Derr Biggers at his best. Charlie Chan's duty was merely to deliver...

Robin Hood-leader of an outlaw band of Sherwood Forest-befriends an impoverished knight who is about to lose his ancestral lands after his son, Peter, accidentally kills a rival knight, Sir Walter, in a tournament. The Abbot of St. Mary's, who served as judge in...

On Thanksgiving Day, 1991, the tattered remnants of the notorious LaVoie crime family gather for a melancholy reunion. Sister Ronnie, a faded beauty who's outlived three husbands and countless lovers, is the host. Her guests include eldest brother Eugene, the family's detested Judas; Adriana,...

"Cold-hearted murder." That's what was promised in the anonymous note, and Leo can't resist. He may be a working journalist at last, but it's a precarious gig, and a good story could bring in the readers. What he finds on Berner Street, though, is...

1866: One year after the surrender of the Confederate army in Appomattox signaled the end of the Civil War, a veteran Union soldier will try to track down a killer who is waging his own war against the members of an isolated community in...

A rattling good yarn and a suspenseful whodunit, against the backdrop of real historical events, that brings sixteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes together with Karl Marx and his brilliant daughter Eleanor to solve a cascading series of murders at a Bohemian spa. Karl Marx Private Eye...

IIt's 1899, and the new century is almost here. Change is everywhere. Kinescope parlors are open, there are plans to build a bridge connecting Manhattan to Brooklyn, and automobiles are claiming the space that belonged to the horse.With the digging of a rapid transit...

It is 1993, the banking world is in turmoil, and in New Jersey, there is outright panic. The big New York banks and emerging regionals are gobbling up everything in the state. Every financial institution is now both predator and prey. The Fed has...

Lake Michigan, called Michigami by the American Indians who lived along its shores, is the third largest Great Lake (behind Superior and Huron) and the only one entirely within the United States. An estimated 10,000 vessels have gone down in the Lake, with approximately...

The long-running and much-beloved series from the pages of Short Stories is finally collected in order and with a plethora of bonus material. Join Aubrey St. John Major--AKA the Major--and his faithful companion, Jim the Hottentot, on their adventures across the diamond country of...

The Textile Mill Murders begins on a sunny October day in 1866 when Ginger O'Leary is convinced by her new husband, CJ Mulcahy, Esq., to play hooky from her studies for the Massachusetts Bar. CJ's plan is to pick up a picnic lunch at...

Prohibition has ended and his speakeasy is almost legal, but Jimmy Quinn has to unload a fabulous golden egg, possibly Fabergé. Simultaneously, somebody's trying to kill him, and millionaires plot to overthrow Franklin Roosevelt.Author: Michael MayoISBN-10: 1684920264ISBN-13: 9781684920266Publisher: Coffeetown PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/14/2022Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Located on the idyllic Georgia coast, Jekyl Island was the playground of the rich at the turn of the last century. Vanderbilts, Goulds, Rockefellers, and other members of elite society vacationed there, enjoying the finest aspects of Southern hospitality that money could buy and...

When retired Southern sheriff-turned-New York City detective John Le Brun and his wife, Lordis, set sail in 1910 for a long-awaited honeymoon on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, they expect to find relaxation in paradise. However, they soon discover they've been lured to...

They thought the case was solved. When an eminent Egyptologist is murdered giving a lecture in front of a packed hall, Cairo's chief of police quickly rounds up those responsible.Or at least some of them. Sir Augustus Wall, antiquities dealer and amateur sleuth, knows...

Sherlock Holmes must solve three cases that carry him into the unnatural: the disappearance of the Baker Street Irregulars, the true identity of a Great War veteran, and a vampyre's grisly death. He must cross into the worlds of the Grimm Brothers and Bram...

It takes a village to bury a child ...1 September 1939. As the mass evacuation takes place across Britain, thousands of children leave London for the countryside. But when a little girl vanishes without a trace, the reality of separation becomes more urgent and...