Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

A snowy Christmas gathering on an island off the Cornish coast goes murderously wrong in this festive Golden Age mystery.December 1938, and storm clouds hover once again over Europe. Josephine Tey and Archie Penrose gather with friends for a Cornish Christmas, but two strange...

Barry Barrison perfected his deductive skills through the teachings of Sherlock Holmes, of whom he was a contemporary. Murdered by one of his peers, his ghost is cursed and forced to wander forever through his former home, Tarford Manor. But even today, he continues...

"Forgive me...for I have sinned."And nothing interrupts a good confession like a murder.Fiona Mahoney stands in the ashes of her hopes facing her tempting adversary, Inspector Grayson Croft. Her sins are about to spill from her lips, when he says the one thing that...

Faith Creek is a busy little town. The railway has come to this secluded and untamed part of Texas, and is bringing with it brave women with a view to taming the wild men who have made Faith Creek their home. Finding love and...

Intrigue and scandal threaten to rock the monarchy in wartime Britain...Windsor, 1943. Britain is in the grip of war and treachery is afoot. The body of controversial former courtier Lord Blackwater is found in the abandoned Fort Belvedere, once the country bolthole of the...

Mary Stevens was a typical eighteen-year-old girl, living in 1908. She was ready to graduate from school and start her adult life. She lived in Orderville, Utah, a community established for those who wanted to live the United Order. Four shots ended her life...

A young man's friend has gone missing. Holmes and Watson go with him to Birmingham to help look for him. What they find is horrifying. Two more bodies of young men turn up in London. All of the victims are tied to Cambridge University....

Brighton, 1938. Charlie 'Big Bad' Woolf thought it would be easy money, and there's precious little of that for a private detective in a seaside town. It was just a trip up to London to hand over an envelope - a favour for his...

Louisville, Kentucky 1898. Ten years earlier, Jack the Ripper terrorized London's Whitechapel district. Assigned to the case, Detective Inspector Nathan James discovered the Ripper's true nature, and made a decision that changed his life. But the murders stopped and the Ripper disappeared. Now living...

Jack Barnstone is an outside-the-box, motorcycle-riding physician who, finding himself in two kinds of trouble, leaves Texas to start a solo practice near Chinatown in San Francisco. When a patient walks in his office with an undiagnosed mortal illness Barnstone's life changes forever. Finding...

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in...

Memorial Day, 1929. A private investigator is found dead in the Palm Springs home of a Hollywood starlet. In the icebox - a reel of movie film. Detective Daniel Moretti's investigation takes him from the desert heat of Palm Springs and Joshua Tree to...

London, 1932. Kitchen maid, Joan Hart, and lady's maid, Verity Hunter, intend to enjoy their trip to the theatre, especially as Verity's uncle Tommy is one of the leading men in the play. Unfortunately, Act Two of the play is curtailed when the lights...

The 1967 attack on the United States Navy intelligence ship Liberty off the coast of Israel during the Six Day War has never been fully explained. Even today, in the 50th year of the anniversary of the event, remaining survivors still dispute the official...

London, 1919. A new investigative double act is on the scene.Edward Moreton just wants to restore his reputation with the British government. His one chance is to work with the police to solve the crimes that no one else wants to touch. Unfortunately, he...

Journalism professor Adam Colbert has come home to Albuquerque after a reporting career that took him all over the world. A nineteenth century adobe house with a mansard roof that he admired as a boy is now his home on Mountain Road. He loves...

Saugatuck's Chain Ferry has been in continual service since 1838, taking passengers back and forth across the often busy Kalamazoo River. It's the last of its kind, an icon of the community, and many tourists consider it part of their Saugatuck experience. It is...

The FAPA (Florida Author & Publishers Association) 2018 President's Book Award is presented to Thomas H. Ward and Transcendent Publishing for best HISTORICAL ADULT FICTION for Templars Quest Trilogy. Three books in one containing: The Ghost Killer, The Ancients, and Lucem Sanctam (Holy Light)...

Timeless. Beautiful. Dangerous.1816 -- the Year Without a Summer -- resulted in two of literature's most feared and beloved creations.Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.Doctor Polidori's Vampyre.American biographer, Rachel Walton, attained international recognition for her Shelley bio, unearthing the horrific events which jolted Frankenstein and his wretch...

A week after uncovering the secret of what really happened at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, history professor Matt Conroy was lying in a morgue with the back of his head blown off. SFPD homicide inspector Tom McGuire, a long-time friend of Conroy's,...

The plans for the Abd? Hamid, the only submarine with a working torpedo in existence, have been stolen. Whoever has the blueprint, more valuable than the Queen's jewels and representing a great deal more power, rules the seas. But the plot thickens. Someone is...

Collins set down the newspaper and scowled at his servant. "You're not helping my paranoia, Rigby." Then the detective fished from his jacket pocket a silver cigarette case, opened it, grabbed one of its contents and stuffed the cigarette into his mouth. A moment...

A headstrong young RCMP constable is left alone to police the quiet and peaceful island of Grand Manan, New Brunswick. However, his daily routine is disrupted when the body of a foreign national is found off a local wharf and he finds himself embroiled...

Screenplay format of a contemporary story featuring flash backs to the Nazi era and Hitler's hidden stash of artwork with both Interpol and the Russians interested in following the main character as he searches for the long lost treasures.Author: D. J. MurphyISBN-10: 1451508026ISBN-13: 9781451508024Publisher:...

Rob McEntee is delighted by the prospect of accompanying Brady photographer Alexander Gardner through Maryland as McClellan's Army of the Potomac marches to intercept the invading Robert E. Lee. His brother, Andrew, recently mustered out of Ellsworth's Zouaves, has no illusions and packs up...

As King Philip of Spain prepares to invade England, Ursula heads to Brussels on a desperate mission in this compelling Tudor mystery. March, 1588. With England in a state of high alert as King Philip of Spain amasses a vast fleet of warships ready...

Jack and Betty Haldean's weekend in the country is disrupted by sudden, violent death in this intricately-plotted 1920s mystery."The surprising revelations just keep coming. This is a real treat for those who enjoy Agatha Christie village murders" - Publishers Weekly Starred Review"There's something in...

Donald Langham and Maria Dupr� must navigate a rocky road to find a killer when a body is found next to a standing stone.Newlyweds Donald Langham and Maria Dupr� have moved to the country. They're excited about starting a new life in the picturesque...

Introducing 14th century poet Geoffrey Chaucer as a memorable new amateur sleuth in the first of an ingeniously-conceived medieval mystery series. April, 1380. About to set off on his annual pilgrimage, Comptroller of the King's Woollens and court poet Geoffrey Chaucer is forced to...

Musician, sleuth and free man of color Benjamin January gets mixed in politics, with murderous results."The historical backdrop is vivid, and the writing is exquisite. One of the best in a not-to-be-missed series" - Booklist Starred ReviewSeptember, 1840. A giant rally is being planned...

In 1945 secrets hidden at an Italian estate could prove just as vital to humanity's fate as the war efforts on the frontlines . . . if nurse Diana Bolsena can get to them first. Tuscany, 1945. As the war in Europe ends, American...

When a blackened body is discovered buried beneath a hot-house, Coroner Titus Cragg uncovers a tale of scandalous secrets stretching back almost twenty years."Blake again demonstrates why he belongs in the first rank of historical mystery novelists" - Publishers Weekly Starred Review"Coroner Cragg. You...

The first historical mystery in award-winning author Mary Miley's 1920s Chicago-set series introduces reluctant sleuth Maddie Pastore and takes readers into a dark and dangerous world of mobsters, speakeasies and seances. It's 1924, and Maddie Pastore has it made. A nice house, a loving...

Londoner Jack Blackjack finds himself a stranger in a strange land when he's accused of murder in rural Devon in this eventful Tudor mystery. July, 1556. En route to France and escape from Queen Mary's men, Jack Blackjack decides to spend the night at...

The arrival of a band of Spanish mercenaries brings new danger for Margaret Beaufort and the House of Lancaster in this richly-imagined medieval mystery. November, 1471. With Edward of York on the English throne and her son, Henry Tudor, in exile in Brittany, the...

The search for a missing artist draws Donald Langham and Ralph Ryland into London's criminal underworld, with deadly consequences. London. April, 1957. Private investigator Donald Langham is approached by retired businessman Vernon Lombard to find his missing son, Christopher. But what appears to be...

The first in a brand-new WWII historical mystery series introduces WPC Billie Harkness - a female police officer who risks her life to protect the home front in the British coastal city of Hull. 1940. Britain is at war. Rector's daughter Wilhelmina Harkness longs...

Deadly drinks, vicious gangsters, missing money . . . Reluctant sleuth Maddie Pastore is back with a bang, in the second Mystic's Accomplice historical mystery set in 1920s Chicago."Miley's storytelling skills do justice to her clever, gutsy, and endearing protagonist. This is a real...

Passions and secrets lie panting and torrid beneath the placid surface of the lives of the genteel women and men of Amelia Island. The island's own charms have seduced me to lay claim to this place, Fernandina, Florida, as my own. The Golden Years...

Published by CUSTOM BOOK PUBLICATIONS The Mona Lisa was stolen from her place of repose in the Salon Carr in the finest museum in the world, the Louvre, on 21 August 1911... and returned in 1913. That much is fact... in 1986, it happened...

Let dead bodies lie...The last thing Vivian expects to see during a garden party at her family's opulent lake house is the love of her life, Charlie Haverman, standing over the body of Hap, a man from Vivian's past, and clutching a pair of...

An unmarked grave and a headless corpse stir the embers of old hatreds in Elliot County, Kentucky, where outsider Deputy Maggie Higgins struggles to investigate her first murder case. Feuds are nothing new in Eastern Kentucky, but this long dormant conflict threatens to gain...

The Malice Domestic anthology series returns with a new take on mysteries in the Agatha Christie tradition -- 30 original tales set around the world Included are: The Barrister's Clerk, by Michael Robertson The Belle Hope, by Peter DiChellis Arroyo, by Michael Bracken Muskeg...

Mark Twain is in merry old England to see his family. Wentworth Cabot, Twain's assistant, is looking forward to seeing the sights, and hopefully finding some peace and quiet -- when not helping his boss with a new lecture series. But peace is the...

Working with the great Mark Twain is a job Wentworth Cabot relishes -- especially when it includes a first-class boat trip, a visit to Europe, and a steady paycheck. But Cabot hopes his third adventure with the renowned author won't involve any murders... The...

The Idyllic life in Eden, Devon County, home of Spig and Molly O'Leary, is suddenly menaced by the spectre of a long-forgotten death and the grim reality of imminent murder. Meanwhile, the march of 'progress' in the form of a new bridge, a super...

Escape the workaday world and come to this luxurious Newport, Rhode Island, playground. Watch the idle rich at their games. See a delightful young heiress falling in love. Observe high society's most fascinating cad in action. See three lovely Paris-garbed ladies play hide-and-seek with...

The secret ballot for murder...Politics is a rough business -- and Congressman Hamilton ("Call Me Ham") Vair made it rougher. To reach his goal, he would use anything and anyone -- blackmail, bribery, or a beautiful, not-so-dumb blonde. Everyone knew that. But suddenly there...

The patriots wanted her husband dead. So did the redcoats. She took issue with both. In the blistering Georgia summer of 1780, Betsy Sheridan uncovers evidence that her shoemaker husband, known for his loyalty to King George, is smuggling messages to a patriot-sympathizing, multinational...

Back after more than sixty-five years, Adventurers, Inc. goes into action to discover the secret of the Scare Devil.Author: Jeff DeischerISBN-10: 1475036396ISBN-13: 9781475036398Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/13/2012Pages: 196Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.42d