Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

Retired Chief Superintendent Williams (the semi-legendary "Williams Of The Yard") has sold the serialisation rights to his memoirs, and is dictating them to a reporter from a leading national newspaper. In this first (and very possibly last) volume, he takes us back to the...

She was in a travel agent's dream. Around her: gleaming waters, waving palm trees, soft-scented breezes. Beside her: the man she loved. And poised above her, ready to strike: the deadly hand of murder..."Leslie Ford is one of the cleverest and most original of...

Murder. Intrigue. And a long-buried secret that will change everything. . . London, 1895. A beautiful American actress visits 221B Baker Street, desperate for Sherlock Holmes to protect her from a mysterious, menacing man who has recently appeared in her life.Holmes feels compelled to...

1311. Murder and mayhem prowl the highways and coffin paths of Medieval England . . . Hugh Corbett returns in the twentieth gripping mystery in Paul Doherty's ever-popular series. If you love the historical mysteries of C. J. Sansom, E. M. Powell and Bernard...

Part of the Knights Templar Adventure series, repackaged for a new generation of fans. Plans to host a tournament in the spring of 1322 gives money lenders everywhere a golden opportunity. Many knights in Devon are already indebted to Benjamin Dudenay, and when a...

Twenty-Seven Ways to Commit Murder. It is 1498 and in the castle of Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, there have been a number of assassination attempts made on his life. The latest happens when the Duke and his court visit the Certosa Monastery after...

Seemingly, when he committed suicide by falling from a tenement window, young Sextus Papinus had everything to live for. So did he jump after all, or was he pushed? And if the second, whodunnit, and why? Corvinus finds his investigations hampered by a spot...

When You Fight Death, You Don't Always Win!Mobile, Alabama is a supernatural hotspot! Carrie Jo Stuart's dream catching has gotten out of control and threatens to wreck her happy home. She decides to tell her husband a secret that changes everything, but Ashland has...

A stylish, atmospheric mystery with a startling twist . . . satisfies like Simenon and surprises like Ruth Rendell. I can't give it any higher praise.--NPR Manfred Baumann is a loner. Socially awkward and perpetually ill at ease, he spends his evenings quietly drinking...

In the two novellas that make up the third book in the popular Boystown Mysteries private Investigator Nick Nowak works two challenging cases and grapples with an even more challenging personal life. In Little Boy Boom, Nick's car explodes when a thief attempts to...

Bronwen Llyr is heading for the Union lines when she discovers that thousands of Rebel troops are advancing in the near distance. In a daring offensive, Robert E. Lee plans a surprise attack to cut off the Union army's supply line. And McClellan might...

When Althea Leary abandons her nine-year-old son, Jasper, he's left on his uncle's farm with nothing but a change of clothes and a Bible.It's 1952, and Jasper isn't allowed to ask questions or make a fuss. He's lucky to even have a home and...

Rumor has it that a mysterious Faberg Egg disappeared in the days just before the Russian Revolution. It's up to Scotland Yard art crime detective Jack Oxby to solve the mystery and find the infamous art treasure. Trouble is, whoever attempts to find the...

It was a strange ending to a voyage that had commenced in a most auspicious manner. The transatlantic steamship La Provence' was a swift and comfortable vessel, under the command of a most affable man. The passengers constituted a select and delightful society. The...

Sherlock Holmes returns Book #1 in the all-new series Sherlock Holmes, legendary sleuth of Victorian London, is asked to authenticate the work of what appears to be a long lost Shakespearean play. Alas, just as the famed detective is about to announce his conclusion,...

In 1938, after four years in hiding in Switzerland, journalist Hannah Vogel believes the coast is clear and takes the opportunity for a holiday with her 13-year-old son Anton. Traveling again under the name of Adelheid Zinsli, they arrive in Poland to cover the...

A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A Sherlock Holmes Novel. Large Print. Complete and Unabridged Classic Edition. Tradecover Paperback 7 x 10 inches. Mnemosyne Books.Author: Mnemosyne Books, Arthur Conan DoyleISBN-10: 1540795691ISBN-13: 9781540795694Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/03/2016Pages: 144Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize:...

'Right, ' I said. 'So what can I do for the Chief Vestal, pal?' The Axeman was flexing his hands like he was squeezing a couple of these wooden balls wrestlers use to strengthen their grip. 'I'm to take you to the Galba place,...

'Uh...Dad?' Young Lucius's face was chalk white. 'Dad, I think he's dead.' It took a moment to register. Then Renatius dropped the towel and was through the door in five seconds flat, and the rest of the wineshop, including me, were about two seconds...

England still in tumult at the start of the fifteenth century, as Kate Clifford finds herself working to prove the innocence of her longtime confidante. It is deep winter in York, 1400, the ground frozen, the short days dimmed with the smoke from countless...

Edinburgh's most unlikely detective duo--"Nine-Nails" McGray and Inspector Ian Frey-- must try to solve a murder mystery on the Scottish stage, as a new production of Macbeth is attracting the machinations of a serial killer . . . Edinburgh, 1889. The Scottish Play is...

Bletchley Park, 1942: As World War II rages on, Honey Deschamps sits at her type-x machine, tediously transcribing decrypted signals from the German Army, doing her part to assist the British war effort. Halfway across the world, Hitler's armies are marching into Leningrad, leaving...

In 1905, John Le Brun makes his first excursion to England to visit import broker Geoffrey Moore. Le Brun and Moore became friends six years earlier while Le Brun was Sheriff of Brunswick, Georgia and enmeshed in a perplexing murder case at the very...

"When the Klan Comes to Pasadena, Intimidation Takes a New Form in DARK SPIRITS, a Historical Cozy Mystery by Alice Duncan" The Ku Klux Klan has opened a chapter in Daisy Gumm Majesty's home town of Pasadena, California. Worse, Klan members are harassing Joseph...

This masterful collection of seventeen classic mystery stories, dating from 1837 to 1914, traces the earliest history of popular detective fiction. Today, the figure of Sherlock Holmes towers over detective fiction like a colossus--but it was not always so. Edgar Allan Poe's Dupin, the...

The second entry of the Bertie, Prince of Wales mystery series, featuring future King Edward VII, Albert Edward, as an amateur sleuth solving suspicious murders in Victorian England. Bertie, Prince of Wales, is delighted to be invited by Lady Amelia, a recently widowed young...

Alaska, 1935: Slippery Wilson is on his way out of town when he runs into a woman, her neice, and a crashed car. His life is about to get a lot more complicated. It's 1935 and jobs are scarce, but Slippery Wilson walks off...

Sand in My Shoes is a mystery novel that teases and surprises. The set-up is an old summer resort hotel on the Jersey Shore in 1965. The owners stretch back to the Gilded Age, a time when manners ruled and murders were swept under...

The women in Sherlock Holmes's life have grown tired of toiling in his shadow. Matters come to a head when the Great Man declines to help a desperate young bride, prompting Mrs. Hudson (Holmes's housekeeper) and Mary Watson (wife to the good Doctor) to...

Denton, a celebrated American author, investigates the murder of a prostitute at the turn of 20th century in London.Author: Kenneth CameronISBN-10: 163194147XISBN-13: 9781631941474Publisher: Felony & MayhemLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/07/2018Pages: 312Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 7.80h x 5.30w x 0.60d

Hooper Taliaferro is living in Paris, at the height of its post-War chic, in this final mystery in the series. When a nightclub singer is murdered, the timely arrival of the redoubtable Mary Finney saves the day.Author: Matthew HeadISBN-10: 1631941380ISBN-13: 9781631941382Publisher: Felony & MayhemLanguage:...

The Death Chamber, set in both the past and the present, takes us to Calvary Gaol, a former prison where a TV crew has turned up for a shoot. But the ghosts of the prison's gruesome past have a way of reaching into the...

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...

Johnny Morocco hit Atlanta, Georgia in 1953. The former army military policeman changed his name from McDonald and used his military training to become a licensed PI. Johnny's "office" was a pool room called Big Town in the heart of the city. His clients...

During the tempestuous reign of Henry VIII, Bianca Goddard has seen up close what keeps a man alive--and what can kill him. A good thing, for she will need all her knowledge to keep a friend away from the gallows . . . Bianca...

Scotland Yard Detective Joe Sandilands is caught off guard one night in 1933 by a phone call from a distressed boy named Jackie Drummond, who just might be the illegitimate son Joe never knew he had. Jackie is in trouble at his Sussex boarding...

Zigomar is a character dreamed up by L on Sazie in 1909, two years before the now much more celebrated Fant mas. An evil, nefarious character, a criminal genius, Zigomar was so popular in his time that his picture could be found on bags...

1935, Louisiana. Presidential candidate--and force of nature--Huey Long, the "Kingfish," is in fear for his life. After Nathan Heller delivers the former Louisiana governor a bulletproof vest, the Kingfish hires the Chicago private eye to investigate death threats from political rivals. Soon Heller runs...

New England. 1648. The Piscataqua Settlement. A young woman has been found dead, her violated body stripped naked and thrown in a river. Her husband, a reclusive and learned man, has mysteriously halted his legal proceedings against the most likely suspect, who has disappeared...

Vienna, 1909. When the celebrated actor Eugen Bischoff is found dead in his garden pavilion, suspicion falls immediately on Baron von Yosch, a well-to-do army officer who was once the lover of the dead man's wife. By all appearances--the door was locked from the...

An internationally acclaimed crime novel set in post-WWI Vienna: "A thrilling, deeply satisfying debut" by "the new star of Austrian crime fiction" (Kronen Zeitung). Vienna, 1919. In the desperate years after World War I, the Habsburg Empire is a fading memory and most of...

A weary traveler, Hugh Austin arrives, seeking food and lodging for the night. "Enter, sir; you are the first to arrive, but the others can not be far behind," he is told. "What others?" he wonders, gazing at a stern portrait hanging on the...

The political situation of the time is portrayed from different viewpoints, and the Scottish Highlanders are treated sympathetically. If you ever read this tale, you will likely ask yourself more questions than I should care to answer: as for instance how the Appin murder...

FOURTH IN THE MARTIN BORA SERIES. SPELLBINDING MULTI-LAYERED CRIME NOVEL SET IN UKRAINE AS THE GERMANS REGROUP AFTER THE DISASTER OF STALINGRAD. FOR FANS OF PHILLIP KERR (BERNIE GUNTHER SERIES), ALAN FURST (SPIES OF THE BALKANS). THE HERO, MAJOR MARTIN BORA, IS AN ARISTOCRATIC...

"'This remarkable novel is nothing less than a secret history of southern California--a radical past that might yet redeem our future."--Mike Davis, author of City of QuartzA chance encounter with a faded "Wanted!" poster in a San Diego library sends journalist Jack Wilson on...

At the end of the sunless summer of 1560, black rumor shrouds the death of the one woman who stands between Lord Robert Dudley and marriage to the young Queen Elizabeth. Did Dudley's wife, Amy, die from an accidental fall in a deserted house,...

Crispin Guest must tackle a number of strange occurrences involving St Modwen's Church and a missing relic in this latest medieval noir mystery. London, 1392. Strange mischief is afoot at St Modwen's Church. Are corpses stalking the graveyard at night, disturbing graves, and dragging...

Introducing scribe sleuth Christine de Pizan in the first of an intriguing new historical mystery series set in 14th Century France.Paris, 1393. Recent widow Christine de Pizan became a scribe to the Queen of France to support her family, but when she is called...

Standing for election as a Poor Law Guardian, Tom Harper's wife Annabelle and the other female candidates have been receiving anonymous, threatening letters. The threats turn deadly with carefully-targeted explosions. The only clue Harper has is a scrap of paper containing a fragment from...

An unfairly harsh judge meets a gruesome end in the latest intriguing Burren mystery. It was a macabre ending for an unjust judge: his throat slit by a sharp knife; his body stuffed into a lobster pot and left beneath a powerful jet of...