Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

After solving the murder of Captain Rummings, Miss Victoria Parker is ready to resume her daily life in London. That sentiment is short-lived, however, when her friend Laura Grant is tasked to create a chapeau for the darling of the gossip columns. Miss Louisa...

MI5 has a task for psychic investigator Jake Conley: Operation Black Panther, a mission to obtain DNA from a beast in Exmoor.Meanwhile, wealthy arms manufacturer, Dr. Aubrey Drake, and the unhinged Major Lorimer infiltrate a top-secret military research station, dreaming of creating the ultimate...

After aspiring novelist Jake Conley regains consciousness from a coma, he discovers he's affected by synaesthesia, and that his now cross-wired brain endows him with heightened psychic powers.Jake's research on the Northumbrian King Aldfrith takes him to Elfrid's Hole in North Yorkshire, where -...

In Brusnengo, Italy, perched atop the rolling hills of Beretta Vineyards, Rosario dreams of growing a legacy while another man plots to strip it from him. Rosario loves two things in life: his family and the vineyard, where he has toiled for nearly three...

The year is 1965 and Patty Byrne is flying high as stewardess... until her life crashes when she finds her neighbor murdered.While cooperating with the police, she meets FBI agent Bill Hart, who shows an interest in both her and the victim's activities. When...

Dundee, Scotland, 1862. After the mill of businessman Matthew Beaumont burns to the ground, Detective Sergeant George Watters is sent to investigate.Soon, George discovers that this is not the first property that has been targeted. When a man is found dead in the hold...

Inspector Duff works with the Scotland Yard. He is called in to investigate a mysterious murder that occurred at a famous local London hotel. A deaf old man, traveling on pleasure trip from America with his daughter and granddaughter, has been murdered during the...

The Coyote Saga continues with a new generation in the third book of the thrilling western series. On assignment for the Bureau of Investigation in the summer of 1927, Trey Ramsey seeks information regarding the disappearances of young Sioux women from their reservations in...

Springtime. Love is in the air. So is murder. When Ellison Russell, reluctant finder of bodies, chairs a gala in conjunction with the museum's Chinese funerary exhibit, she expects disaster. So, she's not remotely surprised when a body turns up. Ellison is willing to...

Following the trail of Mae West's scandalous--and missing--memoirs soon leads P.I. Peters into the midst of murder and mayhem.Author: Stuart M. Kaminsky, Stuart KaminskyISBN-10: 1665186240ISBN-13: 9781665186247Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/30/2013Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 6.69h x 5.35w x 0.55d

Following the trail of Mae West's scandalous--and missing--memoirs soon leads P.I. Peters into the midst of murder and mayhem.Author: Stuart M. Kaminsky, Stuart KaminskyISBN-10: 1665186232ISBN-13: 9781665186230Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/30/2013Format: CDWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 6.14h x 6.69w x 0.71d

With all the wit of a Jane Austen novel, and a case as beguiling as any in Sherlock Holmes's casebook, Paraic O'Donnell introduces a detective duo for the ages, and slowly unlocks the secrets of a startling Victorian mystery. London, 1893: high up in...

August 1926Jack and Ham's first solo case is placed on pause just as the tale of a treasure is brought to light. As the case progresses, Vi and Rita dive in, and somehow it becomes a competition between the two couples. Things, however, take...

A month after solving the murder of the Duke of Everton, Miss Victoria Parker is ready to indulge in a week of leisure. And what better setting than the quiet solitude of the farm belonging to the brother of her assistant, James Kensington? Although...

The Secret Passage (1905) is a mystery novel by Fergus Hume. Although not as successful as The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886), an immediate bestseller for Hume, The Secret Passage is a gripping novel with an atmospheric intensity and tightly wound mystery worthy...

Miss Mephistopheles (1890) is a mystery novel by Fergus Hume. Although not as successful as The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886), an immediate bestseller for Hume, Miss Mephistopheles is a gripping novel with forbidden romance and a tightly wound mystery worthy of the...

Rhys Bowen's characteristic blend of atmospheric turn-of-the-century history, clever plotting, and sparkling characters will delight readers in The Edge of Dreams, from her bestselling Molly Murphy series. Molly Murphy Sullivan's husband Daniel, a captain in the New York City police force, is stumped. He's...

The 11th story in the Gil Cunningham series set in medieval Glasgow "The tale seems very improbable, ' Gil Cunningham said. 'How should the Devil enter a religious house and carry off one of its members?' " How indeed? But Arnold Fleming, the widely...

Fun-filled 1920s cozy mysteryA nervous twitch. A threatening letter. A murder.Henrietta, the Dowager of Woodridge, is on a mission to find Tom Winchester a title. Meanwhile, Evie, the Countess of Woodridge, has been offered a partnership. However, she has reservations about her abilities to...

Howard and Emma Gladstone are at their summer lake house in the early twentieth century, when their daughter, Margie, disappears. The police suspect she's been kidnapped, but there is no ransom note. Despite an enormous effort on land and underwater, no sign of Margie...

Author: Will ThomasISBN-10: 1665289708ISBN-13: 9781665289702Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/29/2016Format: CDWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 6.10h x 6.60w x 1.20d

Author: Heather RedmondISBN-10: 1665228768ISBN-13: 9781665228763Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/31/2018Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 6.70h x 5.30w x 0.60d

Author: Emily BrightwellISBN-10: 1665207736ISBN-13: 9781665207737Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/12/2020Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 6.70h x 5.30w x 0.60d

Author: Emily BrightwellISBN-10: 1665207701ISBN-13: 9781665207706Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/26/2020Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 6.70h x 5.30w x 0.60d

Though Charlotte Sloane's secret identity as the controversial satirical cartoonist A. J. Quill is safe with the Earl of Wrexford, she's ill prepared for the rippling effects sharing the truth about her background has cast over their relationship. She thought a bit of space...

June 1910.Fighting her corner in a man's world, Dr Margaret Demeray works as a pathologist in a London hospital for the poor. Suppressing her worry that she's breaching confidentiality, Margaret gives a stranger called Fox information about a dead down-and-out, in the hope he'll...

1789. The Bastille has fallen... As Parisians pick souvenirs from the rubble, a killer stalks the lawless streets. His victims are female aristocrats. His executions use the most terrible methods of the ancient regime. English spy Attica Morgan is laying low in Paris, helping...

Poirot Investigates is a short story collection written by English author Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by The Bodley Head in March 1924. In the eleven stories, famed eccentric detective Hercule Poirot solves a variety of mysteries involving greed, jealousy, and...

Checkmate (1871) is a novel by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Although less well-known than his more popular works of Gothic horror and mystery, including the vampire novella Carmilla (1872) and the novel The House by the Church-Yard (1863), Checkmate remains central to Le Fanu's...

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...

When human bones are found in a vat of lye on Steveston's notorious Cannery Row, John Granville is determined to find out why.In a time of frontier brawls and broken dreams, the fishing industry is vital to the survival of the young province and...

When John Granville commits to finding young Rupert Weston, he and his fianc e Emily Turner face treachery on a scale they never imagined.Hired to find a remittance man who is suddenly heir to an Earldom, John Granville quickly learns the fellow hasn't been...

The Doom List - you'd rather be dead than be on it: the intriguing new 1920s mystery featuring Irish-born cop turned private investigator Tom Collins. July, 1922. Newly-appointed 'movie czar' William H. Hays is about to arrive in town on a single-minded mission to...

There's nothing covered that won't be revealed. Greed weaves a tangled web at The Lowell House, but one must rise very early to out fox the hotel's proprietor. With the help of his exuberant wife and his friend and former sergeant, Morgan sees through...

John Granville is offered a fortune to find a lost gold mine, one that legend says is protected by more than secrecy--and nearly turns it down. But the search for his partner's stolen niece has stalled until one of their leads comes through. Then...

A chilling murder ruins a fun day at the races in the fifth historical mystery featuring Detective Chief Inspector Henry Johnstone. 1929. Police surgeon Dr Clive Mason is devastated when his wife Martha is found dead in an empty horsebox at Southwell Races, her...

It's 1899, and when his best friend is arrested for the murder of a notorious gangster, gentleman adventurer John Granville is determined to hunt down the real killer.To save his friend, Granville must dive into the seedy side of the city--the burlesque halls, gambling...

'A Sparkling and witty crime debut with a female protagonist to challenge Miss Marple' - Lin Anderson 'Impeccable historical detail with a light touch' - Lesley Cookman, The Libby Sarjeant Series 'Euphemia Martins is feisty, funny and completely adorable' - Colette McCormick, Ribbons in...

As summer winds down in Chicago's Levee District, the crime rate continues to soar. With the murder of an entire prominent family, in what appears to be a robbery, Patrick Moses must look for a killer who had left very few clues. With the...

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...

Ars ne Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes by Maurice Leblanc is the second collection of Ars ne Lupin stories and one of the greatest masterpieces of French literature. The character "Herlock Sholmes" (an anagram of Sherlock Holmes, the famous fictional detective created by Arthur Conan...

Eighteen-year-old library assistant Jan Christopher's life is to change on a rainy Friday evening in July 1971, when her legal guardian and uncle, DCI Toby Christopher, gives her a lift home after work. Driving the car, is her uncle's new Detective Constable, Laurie Walker...

A professor's death lures the reclusive detective and his sidekick to a bucolic crime scene: "Goldsborough does a masterly job with the Wolfe legacy" (Booklist).An academic so conservative he thought Ronald Reagan was a pinko, Hale Markham rules Prescott University like an intellectual tyrant--until...

'Wonderfully atmospheric, full of the thrills of Victorian London.' Adam Croft 1892. Fear stalks the streets of London. Set around the Bowman of the Yard series, Bowman's Casebook is a set of stand alone adventures following the investigations of Inspector George Bowman of Scotland...

Does love conquer all? Nell's not so sure.Adjusting to wedlock isn't easy for a woman whose initial aversion to the married state took her to the Poor Farm. When a tragedy out of the blue prompts her to repay past debts, her charitable instincts...

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of short stories, including the adventures of The Silver Blaze, The Musgrave Ritual, and The Final Problem. This collection not only introduces the term "smoking gun", it also introduces Holmes' greatest nemesis, Professor Moriarty. Holmes will...

When her parents die from fever, Lady Sarah Montgomery Baird Watson-Wentworth has to leave India, a land she was born and raised in, and travel to England for the first time. Finding it almost impossible to adjust to London society, Sarah flees to the...

When her parents die from fever, Lady Sarah Montgomery Baird Watson-Wentworth has to leave India, a land she was born and raised in, and travel to England for the first time. Finding it almost impossible to adjust to London society, Sarah flees to the...

When her parents die from fever, Lady Sarah Montgomery Baird Watson-Wentworth has to leave India, a land she was born and raised in, and travel to England for the first time. Finding it almost impossible to adjust to London society, Sarah flees to the...

One Hundred and Twenty-Five pieces of dreadful poetry at the expense of Sherlock Holmes. But they will provide some light-hearted entertainment to dedicated Sherlockians.Author: Craig Stephen CoplandISBN-10: 1728671078ISBN-13: 9781728671079Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/12/2018Pages: 90Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.21lbsSize: 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.19d