Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

From the bestselling author of the American in Paris mysteries featuring Julia Child's fictional best friend, and the Phyllida Bright mysteries featuring Agatha Christie's fictional housekeeper, this intriguing mystery stars quick-witted Adam Quinn, President Lincoln's newly hired aide, on a momentous day . ....

From the bestselling author of the American in Paris mysteries featuring Julia Child's fictional best friend, and the Phyllida Bright mysteries featuring Agatha Christie's fictional housekeeper, this spellbinding historical mystery stars Adam Quinn, President Lincoln's clever new aide, amid wartime intrigue . . ....

From the bestselling author of the American in Paris mysteries featuring Julia Child's fictional best friend, and the Phyllida Bright mysteries featuring Agatha Christie's fictional housekeeper, this captivating mystery stars resourceful Adam Quinn, President Lincoln's new aide, as war--and murder--test his skills like never...

The new novel from the author of Art in the Blood. December 1889. Fresh from debunking a "ghostly" hound in Dartmoor, Sherlock Holmes has returned to London, only to find himself the target of a deadly vendetta.A beautiful client arrives with a tale of...

"It was not the dead that seemed to Quirke uncanny but the living."Quirke is a haunted, hard-drinking pathologist stumbling through the brooding gloom of 1950s Dublin. It is a society of secrets and meanness, dominated by a rigid hierarchy--as Quirke is reminded of when...

In the second book of John Banville's masterful Quirke series, a faked suicide ensnares the pathologist in a deadly web of cons and deceit It has been two years since the events of Christine Falls, the bestselling novel that introduced the world to irascible...

Author: D. V. BishopISBN-10: 1529096553ISBN-13: 9781529096552Publisher: Pan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/05/2025Pages: 416Format: Paperback

Gold Town is an historical novel with a female protagonist, set in the gold rush years of late nineteenth century Western Australia. It has elements of mystery and romance, set against the dramatic Australian outback landscape.In 1895, Nora Patterson arrives by stagecoach in the...

The Last Note of Warning is the third in the luscious, mysterious, and queer Nightingale mystery series by Katharine Schellman, set in 1920s New York. Prohibition is a dangerous time to be a working-class woman in New York City. By day, Vivian Kelly is...

WHAT IS THE CONNECTION between a young woman found dead in a church choir loft, an elderly immigrant who died violently after eating lunch, and a TOP SECRET government file? When Tom Hall investigates the death of a Mavis Andersen, the scarce clues he...

A bad decision made by Lee Howard led to the near-fatal stab-wound in his abdomen. He looked like a down and out bum as he staggered from Montevideo's hobo jungle, and it was mere luck that Tom Hall happened by. Lee's only possessions were...

Set in rural Minnesota in 1938, Tom Hall is expecting to retrieve his brother's murdered body, but steps into a wintry intrigue and a series of brutal deaths that will end with one last act of retribution and justice This is a historically based...

The BRAND NEW spellbinding historical novel from bestseller Elena Collins. 'Heartbreaking and hopeful, it's a brilliant read.' Nicola Cornick Now: When Megan's father gets a letter containing a secret from the past, he asks her to go to the Cornish village of St Mawgen...

Quirke returns in the third volume of John Banville's celebrated series A junior doctor at a local hospital, April Latimer is a scandalous presence in the conservative and highly patriarchal society of 1950s Dublin: the independently-minded scion of a well-connected family, she has decidedly...

"An immersive and entertaining read" --Alistair Mabbot, the Herald The year is 1317, and young squire Benedict Russell has joined the English-held garrison of Berwick-upon-Tweed after the spectacular Scottish victory at Bannockburn three years earlier. Serious and self-doubting, he can't wait for his time...

This time, there's no doubt about it: somebody is dead.A mass murderer is on the loose in London, but lady detective Rosemary Lillywhite has bigger problems.With the perfect wedding dress just out of reach, her best friend, Vera, is planning a rushed elopement with...

Murder is for the crows.There's a mass murderer loose on the streets of London, and he's dead set on making Rosemary Lillywhite his next victim. After receiving a second threat, she should have gone straight to her chief inspector beau, Max Whittington, but Rosemary...

Once the glory of Akhenaten's reign, the imperial city of Akhet-Aten now lies tangled in the raveled ends of old plots; wrecked, abandoned and rumored to be cursed.When Commander Khonsu is assigned to escort a royal delegation to the deserted capital to investigate reopening...

Sherlock Holmes, the world's "only unofficial consulting detective", was first introduced to readers in A Study in Scarlet published by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887. It was with the publication of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, however, that the master sleuth grew tremendously...

A Desperate Ruse reveals that Watson's true motive for writing A Study in Scarlet was a much more urgent one than his stated wish broadcast the talent of his friend. The publication of the journal was p part of a desperate plan - a...

Could the mysterious murder of a British diplomat decide America's role in Word War I? Winter 1917- The Great War has been raging in Europe for two and a half years. The United States has struggled to maintain its neutrality; it's idealistic President longing...

After a duke's betrayal, the resilient Sarah Forrester reinvents herself as society's leading light-the life of the party. It's all a fa ade of course. When an old friend returns to London, he's determined to rediscover the true and trusting Sarah he once knew....

Award-winning author Ray Celestin's The Mobster's Lament is both a gripping crime novel and a vivid, panoramic portrait of 1940s New York as the mob rises to the height of its powers . . .Author: Ray CelestinISBN-10: 1509838961ISBN-13: 9781509838967Publisher: Pan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/19/2020Pages: 576Format:...

It's 1924. Lady Ellen of Ashcombe Hall is on a relaxing hotel break to recuperate. Her nemesis is found dead in the restaurant, face down in his pea and ham soup. Can she confront her past to solve the mystery?Lady Ellen seeks respite in...

When a music critic learns a talented young singer might have been murdered, he delves into the past, only to find peril in the present. For the first time in his life, journalist Jack Fiorello is out of work. The sixty-five-year-old music critic is...

The coalition stormed in from the west, war to be over in days, but no one was shocked, let alone awed. The coalition bogged down in its own lies. All wars are for scarce resources and geopolitical gain, especially wars based on fraud and...

Anne Loveday, a surgeon's daughter, is determined to live a single, useful life. To escape her matchmaking stepmother, she accepts an invitation from an old friend to return to Painswick, the place she and her sister spent many happy summers until that last, fateful...

Anne Loveday, a surgeon's daughter, is determined to live a single, useful life. To escape her matchmaking stepmother, she accepts an invitation from an old friend to return to Painswick, the place she and her sister spent many happy summers until that last, fateful...

Sheriff Clifford Davidson has spent decades keeping the peace in the quiet town of New Castle, Virginia. But when two bodies are discovered inside an antique trunk in a long-forgotten house, the sleepy town erupts with secrets, danger, and a past that refuses to...

In the follow-up to International Booker Prize-longlisted The Silver Bone, Samson Kolechko cuts his teeth investigating illegal profiteering in lawless 1920s Kyiv, based on a real-life case."Andrey Kurkov is often called Ukraine's greatest living writer, and it is a gift for crime fiction fans...

Matthew and Martha Mysteries, Book 4In September 1900, an automobile race was held in Newport, RI, attended by thousands, including all of the 'Summer Colony's' wealthy social elite, dressed in their finest. Young Willie K. Vanderbilt took the honors in his French built Daimler,...

A local bootlegger killed. Doro's would-be sweetheart undercover to investigate. And Doro searching for him when he disappears.Doro Banyon, college librarian and amateur sleuth, is excited to step out with Everett Mallow, campus security officer and deputy town constable, on their first date. The...

Darriby Hall is famous for entertaining second-tier aristocrats, tales from distant lands and a dead body . . . every now and then. When Lady Darriby-Jones sees off her husband's nephew at the train station, she considers her good deed for the day complete....

After Professor Moriarty survives Reichenbach Falls and Sherlock Holmes dies, Moriarty finds himself caught up in a locked-room mystery Holmes couldn't solve. This time, it's up to Moriarty to crack the mystery, perfect for fans of Sherlock Holmes ingenious retellings like the ones by...

American civil war- The Deep South How did a noble mission to ensure the safe return of his daughter's governess to New York, end with Midnight Gunn being stranded on an island off the coast of South Carolina, alone and in the middle of...

When an explosion aboard a top-secret test boat kills a young naval officer and severely injures Matthew Reynolds, Martha and his friends are forced to investigate. How could such a thing have happened? Murphy discovers the cause and when secret plans also go missing,...

Rebecca Hall, a lovely young nurse from Louisiana, travels with her family to a thriving riverboat town on the Ohio River in the late 1800's and eventually married Charles Thain. Rebecca happiness is short-lived as things quickly deteriorate and her marriage ends in tragedy,...

This "[Is a] nail-biting locked room puzzle...Carr's gift for creating a creepy atmosphere again meshes with a brilliantly constructed and eminently fair whodunit." -- Publishers Weekly, Starred Review"Who can I trust?" Love-sick Dick Markham is reeling. He's set to marry Lesley Grant--a woman whom...

The Gilded Murder follows Matthew and Martha as they mingle with Newport high society in the summer of 1899 while setting out to enjoy the America's Cup Trials between Columbia and Defender. When Matthew runs into a group of fellow Civil War veterans, one...

Author: Pearl Hewitt, Darcie WildeISBN-10: 1665129638ISBN-13: 9781665129633Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/31/2019Format: MP3 CD

A haunting, unsolved murder. A father seeking redemption. A son committed to helping him get it. Did America's most notorious serial killer, Ted Bundy, kill Janet Leigh Lester? That's the conclusion Jack Jordan, John's father, reached back when he first investigated the case, but...

MURDER IN MIDDLEWYCH is Book #5 in MARILYN CLAY's Juliette Abbott Regency Mystery Series. A carriage accident on the way up to London dictates that Miss Abbott, her maid Tilda, along with Juliette's gentleman friend, Mr. Sheridan, who has gallantly offered to escort the...

In this re-edited version of book #4, Russell Bricklin "Bric" Wahl has decided to dial his manic lifestyle down a little, converting his millions in gold treasure, investing in a peaceful and uneventful Key West bed and breakfast and giving the rest to charity....

Beach Gang bootlegger, Conner Miles, must clean up a mess and protect the fiery prostitute, Livia.The mess is a body piled like dirty laundry in a puddle of blood in Madam Dianne Starr's brothel garden.Conner's boss gives him a wad of hundreds to clean...

In this elegant drama, Anna Katharine Green, one of the greatest mystery writers of all time, weaves a narrative with her usual consummate skill, and portrays her characters with exceptional sympathy. On the New England seacoast, not far from Boston, lies a staid, picturesque...

Buried in the foundation of an old library are secrets from another century. Join two reluctant sleuths in their search for the truth about the Masons, the Knights Templar, and the ghost boy.Based on historical documents, the story recounts the decline and rebirth of...

Young lawyer Daniel Pitt must defend a British diplomat accused of a theft that may cover up a deadly crime in this riveting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Twenty-one Days. Daniel Pitt, along with his parents, Charlotte and Thomas, is...

When poison fells an arrogant and rude businessman in public, Mrs. Jeffries and Inspector Witherspoon both realize they are looking for a deranged maniac in this all new installment in the beloved Victorian Mystery series On a cold night in February, the popular Lighterman's...

Author: Paul DohertyISBN-10: 1035407361ISBN-13: 9781035407361Publisher: HeadlineLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/09/2025Pages: 368Format: HardcoverSize: 9.46h x 6.27w x 1.17d

Two murders in Chelsea plague amateur detective Queen Elizabeth II in the fourth book in the charming series, perfect for fans of Rhys Bowen and Jacqueline Winspear. 1957, England. Young Queen Elizabeth II is finding her way in postwar Europe, trying to repair friendships...