Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

"U.S. marshal Nelson Lane has more than his fair share of unlikely allies: This time it's a tabloid reporter--who turns up missing after he tries to sneak into the Mystical Mountain hunting lodge. Nestled in the rugged and scenic Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming,...

Private investigator Bacci Pagano can't resist taking the bait when his new client dangles a check with too many zeros. He should have known that where there's bait, there's always a hook. In a hospital corridor, private investigator Bacci Pagano is keeping watch over...

Ralph Delchard and Gervase Bret arrive in Archenfield for what should be a straightforward assignment. But they are shocked to discover that a principal witness has been murdered, burned alive in his own home. With an enigmatic symbol the only clue to the killer's...

Author: James C. WorkISBN-10: 143285948XISBN-13: 9781432859480Publisher: Five Star a Part of Gale a Cengage CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/19/2020Pages: 249Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.80w x 0.70dReview Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2019Library Journal 02/07/2020 pg. 1

September, 1901. Fresh from a run of more than 260 performances in New York, the play, Sherlock Holmes, opens at London's Lyceum Theatre. In attendance are Mrs. Hudson, Dr. Watson and Holmes, the renowned detective attending in disguise, concerned that he is somewhat too...

One of the most historically significant Twentieth Century science fiction series ever published is at last collected. A pioneer in pulp science fiction, Ray Cummings inspired an entirely-new fiction genre with his influential story originally published in 1919, The Girl in the Golden Atom,...

The Attempted Murder of Teddy Roosevelt is a historical thriller from award-winning political journalist Burt Solomon, featuring Teddy Roosevelt's near death... September 3, 1902. Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Theodore Roosevelt has been president for less than a year when his horse-drawn carriage is broadsided by an...

The bloodiest crime in Texas history, and only one man has the guts to solve it. Bank robbery. Jailbreak. massacre. Alone, any one of them would send good folks reeling. But when all three occur in the same night in the same small South...

A wryly entertaining new crime caper from Lynne Truss, author of "the funniest crime novel of 2018" (Wall Street Journal) and the New York Times bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves. 1957: In the beach town of Brighton, music is playing and guests are sunning...

Paris, 1911. Andre du Monde, director of a famous horror theater, has married a young girl from the country. As a child, Andre experienced something terrible. Now he can't be close to anyone except by frightening them. His wife is frightened too. Because Andre...

Volume V contains the seventh, eighth, and ninth full-length Thorndyke adventures, published in 1924, 1925, and 1926, respectively. With each subsequent narrative, Thorndyke's skills and abilities grown and amaze. The Mystery of Angelina Frood - In which a doctor, newly arrived in Rochester, falls...

Volume V contains the seventh, eighth, and ninth full-length Thorndyke adventures, published in 1924, 1925, and 1926, respectively. With each subsequent narrative, Thorndyke's skills and abilities grown and amaze. The Mystery of Angelina Frood - In which a doctor, newly arrived in Rochester, falls...

Volume IV contains the fourth, fifth, and sixth Thorndyke novels, published in 1914, 1922, and 1923, respectively. Covering different periods in the doctor's career, each of these shows Thorndyke's skills at their finest. A Silent Witness - When a young doctor finds a body...

Detective. Judge. Executioner. Konrad Savast is the Malykant: foremost and most secret servant of the God of Death. His job? To track down the foulest of murderers and bring them to The Malykt's Justice. No mercy. No quarter. The Zolin Conspiracy: Out in the...

DASHING & CLEVER, Armand Arnolfini confronts a dazzling array of art thieves, forgers, and ruthless murderers in this riveting series of mysterious art crimes.Arnolfini's manhunts take him from New York to Italy, Belgium, Germany and beyond in his quest to unravel a series of...

The controversial research and public-spirited work of Nicholas Culpeper (1616-1654) - English alchemist, astrologer, physician and free thinker - continues to divide opinions to this day. The College of Physicians despise his healing texts in layman's English that challenge their monopoly on medical knowledge....

When a young Englishman is arrested for fraud, John Granville takes the case as a favor to a friend. The resulting scramble to extricate his client involves Granville in a break-in and two murders, drawing him--and his fianc e Emily Turner--ever deeper into the...

Death returns to the country ...A quite country life continues to elude Helen Lightholder, as she wrestles with her recent bereavement. When the grisly murder of a nameless vagabond shocks the local community, Helen sets out to unearth the truth behind the inexplicable killing.But...

The Hidden City Murders opens on a sultry August day in 1900. John Granville and Emily Turner have just wrapped up the Cannery Row case, and are ready for a well deserved break. Alas, it is not to be.Granville's indispensable lawyer is under attack,...

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...

Heiress and amateur detective Felicity Carrol makes a perilous journey to apprehend a notorious murderer who has terrorized England--and now continues his vicious killing spree across the pond. Felicity Carrol would rather be doing just about anything other than attending balls or seeking a...

"You'll never get me up in one of those things. They're absolutely lethal." Seville, 1931. Six months after the loss of the British airship the R101, a German Zeppelin is coming in to land in Southern Spain. Hilary Manningham-Butler is an MI5 operative eking...

Murderer or independent woman? Murder at a construction site draws Ohio private investigator Maggie Sullivan into a case that makes cops mistrust her and friends doubt her. The suspect, Rachel Minsky, is Maggie's closest friend - and all signs point to Rachel's guilt. Rachel...

Superstition and murder haunt nineteenth-century Scotland in a twisting mystery by the prize-winning author of Edinburgh Twilight and Edinburgh Dusk.Spiritualism has captured the public's imagination. S ances are all the rage, and Detective Ian Hamilton's otherwise sensible aunt Lillian is not immune to their...

The Reverend Mother is delighted with her new entrant to the convent. Young Sister Gertrude is well-educated, with an appealing sense of humour. But when she is found dead one autumn morning, the Reverend Mother delves more deeply into Sister Gertrude's background - and...

Stephen Attebrook, the deputy coroner of medieval Ludlow, wants more than anything to be part of an army gathering for an invasion of Wales, hoping for a stroke of luck that will bring him to the attention of some magnate and free him from...

A search in the Pacific for Dr. Jane's childhood idol Amelia Earhart, an American aviation pioneer, uncovers a hidden murder from the past now haunting to be solved. Author: D. M. SorlieISBN-10: 1393772455ISBN-13: 9781393772453Publisher: Enchanted Island PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/31/2020Pages: 124Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 9.00h x...

Singapore/Malaya, 1892: When a dead American is found floating in Rochor Canal, Chief Detective Inspector David Hawksworth begins an investigation that quickly leads into a labyrinth of deceit and violence in the polyglot steamcooker of turnofthecentury Singapore. As Chinese gangs verge on open turf...

Detective. Judge. Executioner.Konrad Savast is the Malykant: foremost and most secret servant of the God of Death. His job? To track down the foulest of murderers and bring them to The Malykt's Justice. No mercy. No quarter. The Corpse Thieves: Danil Dubin is a...

It is late summer and London is all a-bustle for St Bartholomew's Fayre, with merchants arriving from faraway lands. When an old friend returns with fabulous items for sale, it can only mean one thing: trouble. As thievery, revenge and murder stalk the fayre,...

Seb Foxley and his wife, Emily, have been forced to flee medieval London to escape their enemies. They find a safe haven in the isolated Norfolk village where Seb was born. Yet this idyllic rural setting has its own murderous secrets and a terrible...

The third Sebastian Foxley Medieval Murder Mystery by Toni Mount. A devilish miasma of murder and heresy lurks in the winter streets of medieval London - someone is slaying women of the night. For Seb Foxley and his brother, Jude, evil and the threat...

BOOK TWO IN THE SEBASTIAN FOXLEY SERIES A wedding in medieval London should be a splendid occasion, especially when a royal guest will be attending the nuptial feast. Yet for the bridegroom, the talented young artist, Sebastian Foxley, his marriage day begins with disaster...

Carruthers, a minor official in the Foreign Office, is contacted by an acquaintance, Davies, asking him to join in a yachting holiday in the Baltic Sea. Carruthers agrees, as his other plans for a holiday have fallen through. As they sail off Davies gradually...

The Lane Fleming collection of early pistols and revolvers was one of the best in the country. When Fleming was found dead on the floor of his locked gunroom, a Confederate-made Colt-type percussion .36 revolver in his hand, the coroner's verdict was "death by...

Set in the world of the original Dream of the Red Chamber, the masterwork of eighteenth-century Chinese fiction by Cao Xueqin, this murder mystery plays out Peking during the late Qing dynasty. The author is famed in Japan for not only his tight plotting...

"I will marry you," Perdita Halley said to Alexander von Reisden at eighteen, "but not until I study music." Now, at twenty-one, she has come to Paris, his city--but music still stands between them. She is pursuing her dream of becoming a concert pianist;...

Thief-taker Simon Westow must save one of his closest friends from a grim fate at the hands of the government in this compelling historical mystery. Leeds, May 1822. Thief-taker Simon Westow owes Davey and Emily Ashton everything - the siblings gave him sanctuary when...

The theft of a painting takes crime-writer sleuth Donald Langham to a country house full of seething tensions, resentment and dark secrets. November, 1956. Lord Elsmere, an old friend of Donald Langham's literary agent, Charles Elder, is in a pickle - his favourite painting,...

A rogue FBI agent, and a poetry-loving director of a Brooklyn funeral home. A frayed truce among New York's crime families, and a family of shopkeepers whose lives have come unglued. Bensonhurst is the story of people and events, real and imaginary, caught up...

LARGE PRINT EDITIONTop hats and tails. Mink and murder . . .November, 1923. An invitation to a house party at the estate of Parkview Hall is a welcome respite for Olive Belgrave, a newly minted working girl who's become the solver of high society's...

Murderous family secretsSummer 1764. Alec and Selina anxiously await the birth of their first child at their estate in Kent. It should be a time of family celebration, but the death of a young poacher has Alec investigating murder. And when renovations to his...

It was supposed to be the start of a happy, new life ... 1862 - a group of young Australian women set sail for matrimony in Canada. Their presence is withheld from the male passengers and all but a select few members of the...

New Second EditionAn aspect of World War II that has received little attention... until now.It is 1945. The story of G.I. Gangsters and Collaborators takes us to the European Theater of Operations (ETO). U.S. Army deserters, together with active duty U.S. Army personnel, are...

In this volume, Sherlock Holmes's most famous case, The Hound of the Baskervilles, is retold in just twenty-six words, wherein the first word begins with A, the last with Z, and the story proceeds as the alphabet progresses. The text is accompanied by amusing...

HIS LAST BOW by Sir Arthur Conan DoyleEDITION: Cactus Classics Large Print - 16 Point Font FONT: 16 point Garamond BOOK TRIM SIZE: 6" x 9" (15.2 cm x 22.9 cm) COVER: Glossy PAPER: Cream TABLE OF CONTENTS: YesCactus Classics Large Print (16 point...

A letter from a vicar in Norfolk leads DDI Hardcastle and DS Marriott on the road to a shocking and macabre discovery . . . One rainy morning in March 1927, Divisional Detective Inspector Ernest Hardcastle of the Metropolitan Police is summoned to the...

Dispatched to Whitby Abbey to barter for a Holy Relic, Hildegard of Meaux is plunged into a baffling murder investigation in this gripping medieval mystery. Late December, 1389. Ordered to undertake a gruelling three-day journey to bleak Whitby Abbey in the far north of...

Payback - Tales of Love, Hate and Revenge, the second book of the Passaic River Trilogy, is a drama so intense that it would be improbable anywhere but 1946 Newark. Across the country millions were dealing with the loss of loved ones, and horrible...

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...