Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

New Year's Eve 1901: Six hundred feet above the Atlantic Ocean, the platform city of Addleton Heights balances on massive, soot-covered metal stilts. A grisly double murder interrupts the party in the floating mansion of the city's most powerful man, and for reasons unknown,...

Professor James Moriarty has but one desire left in his shattered life: to prevent the man who ruined him from harming anyone else. Then he meets amber-eyed Angelina Gould and his world turns upside down. At an exhibition of new inventions, an exploding steam...

It is 1806; a powerful and criminal secret society has almost complete control over many of the elected officials, international finance, and commerce in the young nation. Its leaders arrange for a dissident to be brutally murdered and left floating in the Potomac River...

London, 1902. A string of murders committed by a killer dubbed 'The Deptford Strangler' has the police mystified. The victims seem to have nothing in common, and the crimes appear random and motiveless. Meanwhile, retired Inspector Brough and his nephew, Nicholas Calvin, researching a...

Once, there stood a children's home of great reputation and stature. It was Home to thousands of children for nearly a century. It offered security, shelter, food, learning, health care, nurturing, and compassion along with cruelty, hatred and death. It's name was Fairmount. Henry...

96When the corrupt sheriff of Broken Creek, Arkansas detains a young black boy on charges of accidental homicide, his sister asks Hick Blackburn, Sheriff of Cherokee Crossing, to investigate. Hick is reluctant at first. Not only is Broken Creek out of his jurisdiction, but...

How will Sofia Carter choose between two handsome men? Ranch foreman, Travis Desmond and army captain, Zeb Rawlins compete for her affections. Which man will win in a game of love played during a dangerous time in Echo?Author: Linda BrideyISBN-10: 1523879106ISBN-13: 9781523879106Publisher: Createspace Independent...

Gino Terranova hopes for a future with Carrie Sheehan-but when she springs surprises on him, can he forgive her so they can be happy together? Carrie must regain Gino's trust-can she do it or is all hope lost?Author: Linda BrideyISBN-10: 1523356022ISBN-13: 9781523356027Publisher: Createspace Independent...

Nick Terranova and Maura, both broken in their own ways, embark on a romance, but just when happiness is on the horizon for them, obstacles arise that test their faith. Will they overcome them or succumb to despair and disappointment?Author: Linda BrideyISBN-10: 1519596200ISBN-13: 9781519596208Publisher:...

Womanizing, hard drinking Sal Terranova is given an ultimatum by his parents to either change his carousing ways or get out. Furious at first, Sal packs his things, ready to go it on his own. However, his brother, Gino, changes his mind when he...

A clean historical western mystery romance novel . Cheyenne brave, Wild Wind, discovers that Roxie Ryder has been harboring feelings for him for a long time. Amid danger and mystery, their love grows, but can they survive outside influences that threaten to drive a...

A clean historical western mystery romance novel . When famous bounty hunter, Thad McIntyre, and lonely widow, Jessie Alderman, meet, a fiery romance flares between them, but terrible events threaten their happiness. A mysterious stranger also arrives in Echo Canyon. Is he friend or...

The Actress takes readers to Victorian-era Philadelphia with a tale of political machinations, revenge and murder. When Becky Grey Taitt's abusive husband threatens to divorce her and keep their child, she agrees to infiltrate a gang of counterfeiters in exchange for the aid of...

"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 out a...

Beyond Baker Street is a shadowy realm where cultists worship Earth's past masters, the gods of the Cthulhu Mythos. Sherlock Holmes has seen beyond reality's veneer and applied his keen analytical mind to the nightmare logic that drives ordinary men insane. When followers of...

Billy Two Moons is an Indian raised in Echo Canyon, Montana, a largely white society. Everyone likes the gregarious young man, but no one wants their daughters to marry an Indian. Seeing two of his closest friends find love with mail-order brides, Billy decides...

Founded by the wealthiest woman in London, an unconventional crime-solving club brings together single lords and overlooked ladies from every rung of society. It's a perfectly scandalous match... As London's most sought-after bachelor, the Duke of Leomore stuns society when he announces his engagement...

From the creator of Charlie Chan Set in England at the outbreak of WWI, The Agony Column is a murder mystery and romance told mostly through the device of an "Agony Column" in the newspaper (what Americans would call the "Personals").Author: Earl Derr BiggersISBN-10:...

Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in St. Petersburg, kills an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her cash and then is racked by guilt.Author: Constance Garnett, Fyodor DostoyevskyISBN-10: 1515376478ISBN-13: 9781515376477Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/16/2016Pages: 422Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.36lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.94dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 8.7Point...

Edgar Allan Poe's fictional detective C. Auguste Dupin is back for his third and final case. This time he investigates the stolen letter of an unnamed female who is being blackmailed by the devious "Minister D."Author: Russell Lee, Edgar Allan PoeISBN-10: 1514619288ISBN-13: 9781514619285Publisher: Createspace...

2017 HOLIDAY SEASON SPECIAL. The prices of all paperback editions of New Sherlock Holmes Mysteries have been reduced to the lowest allowed by Amazon so that all readers may buy as many as they want and give as gifts to fans of Sherlock Holmes....

One Little, Two Little, Three Little Indians is a book which explores the dark history of the mistreatment of Aboriginal peoples in Canada. Seen through the eyes of a fictional police inspector Joe Donnelly, a string of murders rattles the capital and the police...

A young street urchin, one of the Baker Street Irregulars, discovers a man's belt and buckle under a bush in Hyde Park. He brings it to Sherlock Holmes, hoping for a reward. The buckle is unique and stunning, gleaming turquoise stones set in exquisitely...

The Adventure of the Blue Belt Buckle: A young street urchin, one of the Baker Street Irregulars, discovers a man's belt and buckle under a bush in Hyde Park. He brings it to Sherlock Holmes, hoping for a reward.The buckle is unique and stunning,...

The world's greatest sleuth makes his American debut in this groundbreaking collection of never-before-published mystery stories set in the US. The world's greatest detective and his loyal sidekick Dr. Watson are on their first trip across the Atlantic--to nineteenth-century America From the bustling neighborhoods...

1793: Privateer Harry Ludlow finds himself aboard the navy's 74-gun Magnanime, with his younger brother James. In command is Oliver Carter, a captain with whom Harry has an unfortunate history. When James is found standing over the body of a dead officer, Harry's feud...

Murder Most Medieval is a collection of short stories set in medieval times in which murders are solved by the cleverest of methods. Included are stories by Peter Tremayne, Clayton Emery, and Ellis Peters.Author: Martin Harry GreenbergISBN-10: 1581820879ISBN-13: 9781581820874Publisher: Cumberland House PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2000Pages:...

Daniel "Hawk" Fishinghawk is the best of the best -- a detective's detective. Raised by his Cherokee grandfather to be sensitive to the subtle signs of nature, no clue goes by unnoticed, and each and every case he is faced with is quickly solved....

Maxwell Dent studied law at McGill and served in the RCAF and Intelligence M-5 during the Korean War. For a private investigator, he's as respectable as they come. No wonder then he's summoned to Huntley Ashton's Westmount mansion. A respected captain of industry, the...

The Sign of the Four 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: 1548961450ISBN-13: 9781548961459Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/17/2017Pages: 136Format: PaperbackWeight:...

In this much-awaited sequel to The Great Saugatuck Murder Mystery, Doctor Horace Balfour and his family return to Saugatuck, Michigan where he anticipates a quiet summer with his granddaughter Phoebe. Nothing went according to plan. Part of the problem was the petty vandalism taking...

When Miles West discovers a mysterious treasure in an old car he acquires, he thinks his broken life is on the mend. But the 1928 Stutz Black Hawk Boat Tail Roadster contains a secret that has remained hidden for almost ninety years, left there...

When a vengeful spirit terrorizes a mountain village, a ninja and a Jesuit must save the villagers from the phantom's wrath. January 1566: En route to Edo, Master ninja Hiro Hattori and Portuguese Jesuit Father Mateo spend the night in a rural mountain village...

Agatha Christie meets Patrick O'Brian in the first book in a new series of swashbuckling historical mysteries featuring Spider John Rush, a most reluctant pirate. 1722--aboard a pirate ship off the American Colonial Coast. Spider John Rush never wanted to be a pirate, but...

Two monumental granite statues by famed German artist K the Kollwitz--the Grieving Parents--have been stolen from a World War I soldiers' cemetery in Belgium. What could the motive have been for such an unlikely theft? On a visit to the director of the Kollwitz...

Los Angeles, 1928. Oil, oranges and site of the C. C. Julian Petroleum stock scandal, a Ponzi type scheme to rival any in American history and a foreshadowing of the decade's looming, economic crash. As one of the scheme's victims, Ohio probate officer Sarah...

WHAT'S IN THE BOX? EVERYONE'S DYING TO KNOW.An international crisis threatens to plunge the world into war at the dawn of the Twentieth Century, but the British Foreign Office finds itself blinded by the bizarre deaths of crucial agents and informants as it struggles...

England in the chilly winter of 1902 is captive to a new craze: Mediums and psychics. No surprise, Denton has his doubts; nevertheless, he's agreed to write a book about ghosts and hauntings, and has taken himself to Naples, Italy. Napoli may be bella,...

It's 1901, and with the Boer War raging, England's air is crackling with political intrigue. But it's not South Africa that is on everyone's lips. Rather, it's The Jewish Question: The armies of Antisemitism are on the march, even as the call to Zionism...

Leo Stanhope is rich in dreams but poor of pocket. He dreams of making a home with Maria, the prostitute he loves. And he dreams of a world where no one cares what is tucked between his legs. Leo has a secret and in...

Shona McMonagle may look bookish and harmless, but her education at the Marcia Blaine School for Girls has left her with a deadly expertise in everything from martial arts to quantum physics. It has also left her with a bone-deep loathing for The Prime...

Denton comes to the aid of a damsel in distress, taking him deep into London's "bohemian" quarters.Author: Kenneth CameronISBN-10: 1631941488ISBN-13: 9781631941481Publisher: Felony & MayhemLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/04/2018Pages: 312Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.20w x 0.40d

The third mystery in Matthew Head's series, originally published in 1950, is set among the settlers and expats of tiny Leopoldville in the Belgian Congo, where a beautiful young woman dies under circumstances Dr. Mary Finney finds suspicious.Author: Matthew HeadISBN-10: 1631941372ISBN-13: 9781631941375Publisher: Felony &...

With A Cruel Necessity, the first in the John Grey historical mystery series, LC Tyler, takes a sharp turn into the shadows. The year is 1657, Oliver Cromwell is in power in England, and joy has been outlawed. A young lawyer with a taste...

It's 1956 and Inspector Ted Stratton must investigate the murder of a young man in London who had just recently left the Foundation for Spiritual Understanding, a new age cult based in Suffolk. Traveling to Suffolk, Inspector Stratton encounters a community of fervent believers...

When the three musketeers -- Athos, Porthos and Aramis -- and their new friend, D'Artagnan, find a murdered woman who looks like the Queen of France, what can they do but vow justice? Little do they know their oath and their sleuthing to find...

The Internet? Never heard of it. Smart Phones? Who you kiddin'? We're talkin' 1956.Energetic and eager to make his mark on what Time Magazine called the next great boom town, Bucky Ontario leave his Louisiana home and hops a bus to Defiance, Oklahoma--a town...

In October 1959, a young, hard-luck PI is lost in America, determined to untangle a series of grisly murders spreading like a disease from the set of The Alamo. Fighting for his life--from a dry desert storm, to a mind-bending fog in San Francisco,...

Told by a Central New York pub owner, The Suffragette's Saga is a story of grief and grievances. In an era of streetcars, vaudeville stars, and gritty men in corner pubs, a seemingly unsolvable murder leaves the unmarried Julia O'Rourke wondering if she is...

The eighth gripping novel in the bestselling Medicus series, in which Ruso and Tilla investigate the death of the wife of Ruso's friend in the sacred hot spring of Aquae Sulis. A scandal is threatening to engulf the popular spa town of Aquae Sulis...