Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

Mixing Mystery and Romance in a Fizzy 1930s Cocktail!A spiritualist. An insane asylum. A lost little girl.When a restless Clive begs Sergeant Frank Davis for a case, he and Henrietta are sent to investigate Madame Pavlovsky, a spiritualist holding séances in an abandoned schoolhouse...

Get hold of the second adventure in this gripping Elizabethan mystery series from John Pilkington! 'Thomas proves a dogged, creative and insightful sleuth. - Publishers Weekly MURDER MOST SAVAGE When invited to attend the Barrowhill Pleasures at the seat of the extravagant and pompous...

An outsider in London investigates a series of brutal murders targeting English aristocrats in a timely and provocative historical novel brimming with intrigue, wit, and rage.London, 1905: Law student and military veteran Balvinder dev Singh has found an extralegal way to fund his studies....

Pirlo, who, other than working at the local pharmacy, served as altar boy, carriedthe ponderous crucifix at the head of the funeral procession.Father Giacomo followed behind.A second altar boy, equally in black cassock and white surplice, walkedbeside the priest, to his right, carrying the...

Sheridan returns in a page-turning historical murder mystery! Perfect for fans of Andrew Taylor, S. G. MacLean, Michael Jecks and Laura Shepherd-Robinson. A serial killer is at large in London... 1793 England is at war with France and London is teeming with spies and...

The future of Thorncroft House and its occupants is in the balance while a mysterious murder brings up a past best forgotten! An authentic Victorian murder mystery depicting upstairs-downstairs life in nineteenth century England. October 1861, England. Harriet and Matthew Rowsley, the housekeeper and...

Beijing, May 30, 1626 - 9:30 AM. A cataclysmic explosion tore through the Ming capital, levelling half the city and leaving nearly 20,000 dead or wounded. Its force rivalled Hiroshima's atomic blast-yet its cause remains one of history's great mysteries. Was it an act...

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...

The Bootlegger Murder Mystery involves the grandfather/adopted father of the author. Below is an interview excerpt taken from the newspapers, just days after Russell Brice began serving more than twenty years in Sing Sing Prison. "Brice is a cheerful chap, with smiling gray eyes...

Lambda Award 2015 for Best Gay Mystery! Foreword Reviews' 2014 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award Winner Josie O'Conner travels to San Francisco in 1951 to locate her gay brother, a private eye investigating a blackmail ring targeting lesbians and gay men. Jimmy's friends...

The year is 1922. A respected judge inexplicably vanishes in a decrepit mansion and two of the world's most remarkable men are summoned to investigate: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, and Harry Houdini, the world's greatest escape artist. Aided by a...

Regency England: He ignores danger; she faces it. Together, they're the center of a vengeful plot.Scholar, wanderer, and reluctant magnet for trouble, Lord Cecil Greybourne has almost finished his latest book-an exposé on the corrupt world of Regency art-when thieves attempt to steal his...

"Originally published as Der Schieber by DuMont Buchverlag 2012"--Title page verso.Author: Cay RademacherISBN-10: 1910050989ISBN-13: 9781910050989Publisher: Arcadia BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/21/2017Pages: 300Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.00d

A family, their liquor store, and the clash of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Amendments in 1920s St. PaulThe Kaner brothers were getting by well enough running Kaner's Fine Wine and Spirits in St. Paul, Minnesota, until Prohibition took effect in January 1920. With their...

Author: Cara DevlinISBN-13: 9798992305753Publisher: First Cup PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/10/2026Pages: 280Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.63d

Author: Marlie Parker WassermanISBN-13: 9798898201531Publisher: Level Best - HistoriaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/14/2026Pages: 324Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73d

The Hargrove Box Brass & Bone Investigations - Book OneA stolen box. A four-generation secret. A city that knows how to keep both.When Catherine Hargrove arrives at Suite 201 with a theft to report, the case appears straightforward. A family heirloom - four generations...

One flight. One murder. A hotel full of suspects...Stewardess Patty Byrne thought serving champagne to Hollywood's elite at thirty thousand feet would be glamorous. She was wrong.When rising starlet Rose Rosetti dies mysteriously during a flight to Las Vegas, Patty finds herself trapped in...

In Bath, appearances are everything and nothing is as it seems. Bath, 1889 When a daring burglary strikes the Sherard residence in Bath, Byron Constantine returns under the name his family knows-Ambrose Sherard. Mira Blayse travels at his side, their partnership deeper than ever...

Author: Marshall ThorntonISBN-10: 1965306128ISBN-13: 9781965306123Publisher: Kenmore BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/25/2026Pages: 278Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.63d

Author: Alexandra HayneISBN-10: 1683151860ISBN-13: 9781683151869Publisher: Culicidae Press, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/15/2026Pages: 308Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

Author: J. Thomas WitcherISBN-13: 9798234034922Publisher: Natben PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/13/2026Pages: 344Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d

Author: Julie DorseyISBN-10: 1972549081ISBN-13: 9781972549087Publisher: Julie DorseyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2026Pages: 382Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.12lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.85d

Author: Kathleen GreerISBN-10: 1968532501ISBN-13: 9781968532505Publisher: Crystal Lake PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/24/2026Pages: 140Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.37lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.33d

Sherlock Holmes The Mystery of the Pamplona BullParis to Pamplona, 1924. In the restless years after the Great War, Sherlock Holmes meets the young American writer in a city alive with jazz, wine, and dangerous ideas. Holmes is drawn into the orbit of the...

London, 1871Coventry Adams, former harlot and pickpocket, has risen in the world to the precarious, perilous occupation of thief-taker. She turns her skills at disguise, persuasion, and sleight-of-hand to the risky work of tracking wanted fugitives for the Metropolitan Police. Her only allies are...

When everyone's favorite miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, strays from the path of goodness, he starts seeing ghosts again--this time of a girl whose murder he must solve if he is to avoid the dreaded visions to come. Last Christmas, Ebenezer Scrooge was visited by three...

Private investigators Lily and Felix hunt a rogue thief in this gripping and atmospheric World's End Bureau historical mystery from critically acclaimed author Alys Clare. A clear crime hides an untold secret . . . London, 1882. American agents Henry and Johanna McClellan need...

Scandal, lies and deceit await the thieving Fitzglens on their search for a legendary tapestry that is shrouded in secrecy in this fourth instalment of the compelling Theatre of Thieves gothic mystery series set in Victorian England. A long-hidden secret will finally come to...

A blackmailer's threat to expose intimate secrets throws Penrose and Pyke's lives into disarray at the worst possible time.Private detective Charlie Penrose Pyke has vowed not to take on any new cases while his wife is in a delicate condition. But how can he...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - London provides fabulously deadly opportunities for a fledgling inspector in the twisty follow-up to Julia Seales's bestselling debut, A Most Agreeable Murder, hailed by People as a "delightful cocktail . . . of wit, hilarity, and suspense!"After achieving her lifelong dream...

When Jane Austen's Regency-era heroine Emma Knightley visits her pregnant friend Jane and her husband Frank Churchill at their Yorkshire estate, a proper country house party soon becomes the site of a ghastly murder . . . Emma, her husband George, and her father...

Murder, Mystery and a dog, and cat, of distinctionBook 10 in the Heathcliff Lennox series.A man shot through the heart with an arrow - the victim is a rich outsider who has moved into Ashton Hall in the village of Ashton Steeple...Which is Lennox's...

A clever sleuth. And a scandal brewing.When a popular barmaid is found dead at the Fox and Fiddle pub at the end of a charity event, the night culminates in shock rather than applause.For journalist and amateur sleuth Veronica Vale, the murder is personal....

A factory full of secrets. A fire that hides the truth. A mystery only Pauline can solve. England, 1957. Sputnik has lit up the skies, thrilling the world but unsettling the northern armaments factory where Pauline Riddell works in auditing. Sent to examine the...

"Everything I love most in a mystery. If I had a crime to solve―or a dead body I needed help burying―I'd want Margot Harriman and Rett Mancini on my side." - Katharine Schellman, author of Last Call at the Nightingale A sharp, captivating historical...

Brilliant Holocaust survivor Frank Wolf, now a private eye who investigates with the assistance of his lawyer grandson, specializes in cases the police cannot solve due to the insular nature of many Jewish communities in 1970s New York City. In Were the Angels Wrong?,...

When the disgraced Lord Byron is associated with the deaths of women in Venice, he turns detective to unveil the killer and clear his name. A dazzling, riveting historical mystery by the author of the Sunday Times bestseller, The Fascination. "Brooding and brilliant" --A.J....

One detective. One murder. A nation of lies. Detective Captain Viktor Voloshin, a maverick in the Moscow militsiya, is determined to uncover the truth behind the brutal murder of a foreign medical student, whose mutilated body was left hanging in a city park. As...

Betrayal, redemption and the fate of nations intertwined... As the world holds its breath during the historic Reagan-Gorbachev summit, Viktor Voloshin, a former Moscow cop now working with a private security firm, finds himself embroiled in a deadly game of espionage. A high-ranking US...

DISCOVER THIS GRIPPING SERIES OF COZY MYSTERIES SET IN THE SWEEPING LANDSCAPE OF NORFOLK, ENGLAND. Forty-five minutes ago, the owner of an ancient Norfolk windmill joked happily with his visitors. Now he's dead. An innocent accident or murder? Time is running out to uncover...

Charles Dickens and Superintendent Jones must unravel two eerie mysteries! Perfect for fans of Sherlock Holmes, Victorian crime mysteries, A Christmas Carol and David Copperfield... Dickens faces a decades-old disappearance, a brutal murder and a missing link... London, 1851 On his deathbed, the sinister...

Helen Meeker is back and has less than thirty days to stop the execution of an innocent pastor who has unbelievably confessed to being a Nazi spy. While on a case that has dynamic implications to uncovering an espionage ring operating on American and...

Fr. "Jake" Jakubowski, a 70-year-old Michigan priest temporarily assigned to a New Mexican village, helps Detective Sonia Mora investigate a fetus found in an irrigation sluice, which prompts reopening a cold case about the death of a wealthy rancher's wife. The picketing of a...

Rupert Foxworth has made too many wrong decisions. He may be able to cast the blame on others, but ultimately he must face the consequences of his actions. With murder hanging over his head, can he make some drastic changes to his life before...

With minute attention to historical detail, this beautifully written novel is at once a murder mystery, a story of passionate love and a political thriller, winner of the Local Legend Spiritual Writing Competition. It is a true page-turner that builds to a terrifying and...

The year is 1905, and residents along the southern coast of England are experiencing a series of tragic events which threaten to destroy the peaceful city of Torquay. That lovely coastal community hard by the English Channel is now having to deal with a...

A modern-day Sherlock Holmes, Bernie Quist operates as a consultant detective from Baker Avenue in York. His assistant is Watson, although this Watson is a youth from the Grimpen housing estate and he's definitely no doctor. The mismatched duo take on bizarre cases which...

If the death of Doctor Watson had been of natural causes, his widow Mrs. Mary N. Watson would have grieved the loss of her husband for a time then moved on with her life. However on re-discovering his certificate of death she is again...

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...