Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

This edition of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes contains twelve short stories that introduce the reader to the iconic detective and his sidekick, Dr. Watson.Sherlock Holmes is a mysterious person. Extremely observant, highly intelligent, and yet emotionally unstable, Holmes' reputation as a detective is...

Ed Ruggero's Blame the Dead is the thrilling start of an action-packed and timely World War II series by a former Army Officer for fans of compelling historical fiction. Set against the heroism and heartbreak of World War II, former Army officer Ed Ruggero...

The Answerth family's mansion seems to deserve its nickname of Venom House - perhaps because of its forbidding setting, an island in the centre of a man-made lake, its treacherous waters studded by the skeletons of long-dead trees. Perhaps it's because of the unquiet...

In the little town of Mitford, New South Wales, four babies have been stolen - all boys, all under three months old, and all apparently neglected by their mothers. The local police have given up and the trail is cold. Then a fifth child...

Christopher Urswicke must unmask the traitor lurking amongst Margaret Beaufort's supposedly loyal followers in this gripping medieval mystery. October, 1471. Edward IV sits on the English throne; the House of York reigns supreme. With her young son, Henry Tudor, in exile in France, Margaret...

What secrets do 400-year-old bones hold? In Plymouth, Massachusetts, Home of the Rock, someone is digging up the Pilgrims. tere's a rumor that there's more than 41 signers of the Mayflower Compact--but no one knows because the original Compact doesn't exist. Or does it?...

When two bodies are discovered in the grounds of York Minster shortly before the enthronement of the new archbishop, Owen Archer is summoned to investigate. December, 1374. With the great and the good about to descend on York for the enthronement of Alexander Neville...

As brilliant as Sherlock Holmes. As daring as James Bond. Sexton Blake, the adventuring detective, is back again! FLYING SAUCERS, MAD SCIENTISTS AND DOUBLECROSSING VILLAINS. The intrepid Sexton Blake enters the roaring 60's - and it's all happening. Psychics and aliens clash on a...

The violent death of a friend plunges Helen Lightholder into another case of danger and deceit as she struggles to unravel the truth behind the grisly killing. With her own past continuing to haunt her, Helen works to uncover the ultimate answer behind the...

With intriguing twists, blood-chilling discoveries, and dazzling prose, USAToday Bestselling author Kerrigan Byrne shows that a woman's work is never done, even when she is sleuthing out a serial killer. London, 1890. Blood and death are Fiona Mahoney's trade, and business, as they say,...

OLD NEWS is the fictional story set in the 1960s and 1990s of how a young African-American man "killed" himself in a small town's General Store. The book considers what was "old" news to several different groups of people but which is actually "new"...

The arrival of a high-ranking spy for the Emperor Severus spells trouble for Libertus in this gripping historical mystery set in 2nd century Britain. On a misty day in February, CE 194, Libertus, pavement maker by trade and now reluctant councillor, is summoned to...

A midwife disappears after attending the birth of a child in another community, leading to an investigation that uncovers innumerable lies and secrets. 1790s, Maine. In the depths of winter Hortense, a midwife, disappears after attending a birth in the woodlands. During the search...

As the suffragette movement sweeps England in 1912, Lady Cecilia Bates wants to march but ends up trailing a killer instead in the latest entry to the Manor Cat Mysteries. Lady Cecilia of Danby Hall feels adrift. She couldn't be less interested in helping...

AN ANTHOLOGY OF BRAND NEW SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERIES If you love Arthur Conan Doyle's original, do not miss this extraordinary collection of new tales. PRAISE FOR THE LOST FILES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES "I would not be surprised if this book was released from a...

A deadly welcome...On her return to London, Rose Beckingham's reunion with her relatives is marred by shadows from the past. When a family wedding moves the party to the English countryside, it isn't long before old resentments resurface and dark suspicions are awakened.With a...

Money, power and a deadly family feud. Eliza Thomson Investigates...A body floating in the lake, an abandoned croquet mallet, and a debutante ball.Preparations for one of the society events of the year are in full swing at Lowton Hall, the family estate of Neville,...

Though the Great War has ended, Bess Crawford finds herself caught in deadly circumstances on a remote Welsh headland in this tenth entry from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author.The fighting has ended, the Armistice signed, but the war has left wounds that...

Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge finds himself caught in a twisted web of vengeance, old grievances, and secrets that lead back to World War I in the nineteenth installment of the acclaimed bestselling series.On the eve of the bloody Battle of the Somme, a group...

A horrific explosion at a gunpowder mill sends Bess Crawford to war-torn France to keep a deadly pattern of lies from leading to more deaths, in this compelling and atmospheric mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of A Question of Honor and...

"Highly recommended--well-rounded, believable characters, a multi-layered plot solidly based on human nature, all authentically set in the England of 1917...an outstanding and riveting read."--New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens "Bess Crawford is a strong and likable character."--Washington TimesAlready deservedly lauded for the superb...

The New York Times bestselling “Grande Dame of historical mystery” (Washington Post) returns with another thrilling tale of mystery, As the l921-22 season begins, the Emersons are enjoying a busy period of excavation in Egypt, when they hear a lurid description of a man's...

The Season has yet to begin, and the second member of the Bastion Club, tall, handsome Anthony Blake, Viscount Torrington, is already a target for every matchmaking mama in London. None of their flighty daughters can fix his interest, but a certain lady does...Alicia...

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER AND AWARD-WINNING RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICKMurder, lies and betrayal in Regency EnglandEngland 1819. Thomas Shield, a master at a school just outside London, is tutor to a young American boy and the child's sensitive best friend, Charles Frant....

A sinister Masonic-Templar organization - The Brotherhood Of The Wand - is planning to bring the world to its knees and create a dystopian one-government world. The price? 80% of the world's population.To achieve this aim, they are planning to harness ley lines and...

It takes a village to bury a child... September 1st, 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...

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...

Emily Dickinson and her housemaid, Willa Noble, realize there is nothing poetic about murder in this first book in an all-new series from USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning author Amanda Flower. January 1855 Willa Noble knew it was bad luck when it was...

A notorious woman is murdered, and reporter Sophie Strong stumbles onto the story. Does she have what it takes to find the killer before it's too late? Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 1912: As the only female reporter at the Milwaukee Herald, twenty-two-year-old Sophie Strong is...

'A rollicking good read' IAN RANKIN'A fun read' OBSERVER'Deftly plotted and hugely entertaining' JAMES WILSON This third novel in the Drabble and Harris thrillers is perfect for fans of action-packed, historical fiction................................................................. When daring journalist Sir Percival Harris gets wind of a curious crime...

Wilkie Collins must prove his brother is innocent of murder in the second of the compelling new Gaslight mystery series. November, 1853. Inspector Field has summoned his friends Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins to examine a body found in an attic studio, its throat...

After orchestrating a string of daring train raids, Confederate scout Drouet Broussard is inducted into a secretive group only known as the Knights of the Golden Circle.Shrouded in a world of agents and assassins, Broussard is soon assigned the ultimate mission: assassinating the President...

It's January 1940 and the day of Nuala's famous motor rally. Excitement is at full throttle, but matters take a dark turn when that same evening, human remains are found buried in a lonely corner of a local tea plantation. Inspector de Silva has...

The police don't want to catch the killer. So he'll have to.Tel Aviv, 1949 - A young Arab woman lies murdered in the city morgue and no one seems to care. The newspapers won't report it. The police won't investigate. No one is trying...

'Could challenge CJ Sansom for dominion' Sunday Times London, 1656: Captain Seeker is back in the city, on the trail of an assassin preparing to strike at the heart of Oliver Cromwell's Republic The Commonwealth is balanced on a knife edge. Royalists and disillusioned...

Wagering is all the rage in late Victorian England. Some bets are innocent, like the color of dress a lady will wear to a ball. Other wagers are much more nefarious. Oscar Wilde bets that actress Olivia Snow can fool a group of country...

An eclectic mix of eight stories drawn from the annals of the MX Series of New Sherlock Holmes stories and the many Holmes anthologies of Belanger Books, all from the pen of emerging pastiche author Stephen Herczeg.Holmes is presented with a dishevelled and confused...

Now, as in this lifetime, cab drivers, statesmen, academics, and raggedy-assed children sit spellbound at his feet. No wonder, then, if the pairing of Holmes and Watson has triggered more imitators than any other duo in literature."-John Le Carré "The immense talent, passion and...

Agatha Christie's deft skill in plotting is on full display in the first adventure of Tommy and Tuppence, with seemingly disconnected events revealing a complex web of intrigue. Behind the plot is a formidable foe, a mysterious figure whose identity seems impossible to determine...

Missing diamonds. Mysterious deaths. And all that jazz.London, 1925. With their band the Dizzy Heights, jazz musicians Ivor 'Skins' Maloney and Bartholomew 'Barty' Dunn are used to improvising as they play the Charleston for flappers and toffs, but things are about to take a...

Published in 2021 by arrangement with Kensington Books, an imprint of Kensington Publishing Corp."--Title page verso.Author: Jessica EllicottISBN-10: 1432887718ISBN-13: 9781432887711Publisher: Wheeler Publishing Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/14/2021Pages: 437Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.70h x 5.40w x 0.80dLarge Print

In this sweeping novel about one of the most fascinating periods in history, The Sulphur Priest weaves together two dramatic stories occurring six-and-a-half centuries apart at a medieval castle in the dense Mediterranean forest of western Galilee. In 1271, a young German squire was...

Her devotion to her family trumps all. Homesick for England, heartsick at being separated from her young daughter, Ursula Blanchard is struggling to build a new life in France with her husband, Matthew de la Roche. Ursula is devastated when she learns Meg has...

Based on the real-life witch hunts in 17th century Europe, this "excellent" (Booklist) mystery in the acclaimed Hangman's Daughter series is sure to fascinate modern readers--and chill them to the bone. Germany, 1672: Hangman Jakob Kuisl and his family travel to Munich for a...

Even the Dead---Benjamin Black's seventh novel featuring the endlessly fascinating Quirke---is a story of surpassing intensity and surprising beauty. A car crashes into a tree in central Dublin and bursts into flames. The police assume the driver's death was either an accident or a...

Oh Danny Boy marks Edgar Award finalist Rhys Bowen's triumphant fifth installment in her New York Times bestselling Molly Murphy mystery series. In turn-of-the-century New York City, Irish immigrant Molly Murphy is contemplating giving up PI work for something a little less complicated, less...

When a murdered corpse of an unknown young noble is discovered, Fidelma of Cashel is brought in to investigate, in Peter Tremayne's The Seventh Trumpet Ireland, AD 670. When the body of a murdered young noble is discovered not far from Cashel, the King...

In The Incense Game, Laura Joh Rowland's powerful and evocative thriller, Sano Ichiro and his wife strive to solve the case in a world that is crumbling around them. An RT Book Review Magazine Reviewers' Choice Award Winner In the wake of a terrifying...

Set in the luscious finery of the samurai court of medieval Japan, this installment in the bestselling series by Laura Joh Rowland, is filled with shocking surprises and suspense as readers are once again allowed access into the world of Sano Ichiro. In September...

What happens when you mix a Parisian street orphan, a hot-tempered Spanish forger, a beautiful American pickpocket, an unloved wife, and one priceless painting? Charming Eduardo de Valfierno leads a comfortable life in Argentina, skillfully duping the nouveau riche with his unique brand of...