Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

Escape to Enchanted Hill in this historical mystery where two people with a dark, shared past collide while working undercover at a glittering mansion on the California coast. The year is 1930 and Cora McCavanagh is posing as a maid at Hollywood magnate Truman...

Adult sisters on a quest for truth. An old lady with a long-held secret.​​Sisters Claudia and Bonnie find their father hallucinating on his deathbed. As he reminisces with an imaginary woman about their dancing past, he alludes to a mysterious bygone event where everything...

The fifth in the Wiki Coffin series finds the U.S. Exploring Expedition off Cape Horn, a grim outpost made still more threatening by the report of a corpse on a drifting iceberg, closely followed by a gruesome death on board. Was it suicide, or...

Chasing his dream of a glittering architectural career, Merlin Richards has left the Welsh valleys for the Arizona desert, propelled by a handwritten note from the legendary Frank Lloyd Wright. Richards arrives at the Arizona Biltmore hotel, where he meets a beautiful young designer...

Chicago, 1931. While the Great Depression has tightened its grip on the world, there are still some who have the means to make their dreams a reality. One of these men is Hobart St John, who wants a mansion in the suburb of Oak...

John T. Cullen's novel Lethal Journey - Victorian gaslight noir - is closely based on the 1892 true crime at the Hotel Del Coronado near San Diego. This fast, atmospheric thriller combines the best elements of legend and true history about the tragic young...

England, AD 879. Called away from his own wedding to accompany his brother on an urgent diplomatic mission for King Alfred of Wessex, the young royal official Lord Edwin of Wimborne becomes suspicious of an "accidental" death that occurs during their stay in neighboring...

In the Soviet Union, there are no murders.In the Soviet Union, the truth is a lie.One defiant officer has the courage to seek the truth. Winter 1987, Moscow. On the eve of the 70th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution, Captain Viktor Voloshin of the...

This must-have collector's edition includes Ground Sweet as Sugar and The Virtues of Vice, the alternate-ending novella, Into the Complete Unknown, and Catherine C. Heywood's research notes on "Building the World of Seven Stars."1797: After a century of clarifying oppression, Ireland seethes on the...

In 1939, on the eve of World War II, the World's Fair begins at Flushing Meadows, near New York City. Blathers and Duff, descendants of private investigators, are running the security for the Fair. When they investigate a murder on the Fair's premises, they...

In 1849, Charlotte Parker's father struck it rich in the gold fields of California, then vanished. Back in Boston, Charlotte has only a mysterious letter telling her he was murdered. Charlotte is desperate to go and learn the truth, but her cruel husband confines...

Who is the Lady of Ellerslie?F. Scott Fitzgerald is hoping for a quiet retreat to write his next novel following The Great Gatsby. He and his wife, Zelda, rent a mansion in Edgemoor Delaware, known as Ellerslie. Their stay is anything but quiet. There...

In the year 1889, a young girl by the name of Nancy Hamilton arrived with her family in the small town of Fairmount, Indiana with what seemingly was a gift of prophecy, reciting poems that foretell of upcoming horrible deaths. Is she a witch...

HEEDLESS. STUBBORN. DISGRACED.Small town Illinois, 1870: Desperate to avoid marriage, Nell Lillington refuses to divulge the name of her child's father and accepts her stepfather's decision that the baby be born at a Poor Farm and discreetly adopted.Until an unused padded cell is opened...

A Pride and Prejudice MysteryMary Bennet has always been the quiet sister, the studious and contemplative middle child in a busy family of five. She is not interested in balls and parties, and is only slightly bothered by the arrival of the distant cousin...

April 1937 When Georgette watches a neighbor murdered over her book, she thinks the world has gone mad. With her second book on the market and mostly fiction, she expects things to go back to normal. Only another person dies. The deaths clarify her...

THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (Illustrated) by Sir Arthur Conan DoyleEDITION: Cactus Classics Dyslexic Friendly Font - 11 Point Font FONT: 11 point OpenDyslexic 3 BOOK TRIM SIZE: 6" x 9" (15.2 cm x 22.9 cm) COVER: Glossy PAPER: Cream TABLE OF CONTENTS: Yes...

Saigon, 1957: Banished from the set of The Quiet American, actress Cara Walden stumbles onto a communist insurgency-and discovers her brother's young Vietnamese lover right in the thick of it. A bittersweet story of love and betrayal set in the early years of American...

Tommy Jacks, reporter/political columnist, encounters new love and old threats while covering one of the most brutal U.S. Senate races in history. With a massive oil ­fire threatening the city of Tulsa, three candidates face off, a ruthless oil baron, an idealist college professor,...

Ensign the Hon. Ian Lewin, 112th Foot, deliberately allowed the French to capture his regiment's flag at the Battle of Waterloo.A seventy-year-old cold case of cowardice in the face of the enemy leads Holmes to France on the trail of the missing Waterloo colour....

Government girl Louise Pearlie is thrilled to be posted to London, but her journey across the Atlantic proves to be anything but plain sailing... February, 1944. Washington D.C. With the war entering its most dangerous phase, Louise Pearlie is thrilled to be reassigned to...

THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD REMBRANDT. A young man is facing execution in two weeks and appeals to Sherlock Holmes, his last hope, to try to save him from the gallows. Five years ago he was accused and convicted of the greatest theft of...

"Wonderful. . . a richly detailed story that quite simply gets to your heart." -- Michael Connelly, bestselling author It's 1939. Halfway around the world, war has begun, but for Dorie Lennox, a newly-minted private eye on her first tail, danger is more immediate....

Paris, 1900. The height of the Belle- poque: decadence, wealth, hedonism...and murder. Homicide investigator Guillaume Devr stands for the silenced victims, bound to seek justice as he makes his way from the wide boulevards frequented by the tout-Paris to the narrow byways of Montmartre,...

New Hard-Boiled Detective Series Uncovers Bones, Murder & History.Gold medal, best novel, Fiction--Mystery/Thriller, Midwest Book AwardsPaleontologist turned private investigator, Harry Przewalski, excavates the dirty underbelly of people's lives, unearthing sexual betrayals, treachery, fraud and murder buried beneath the science of petrified shards, skin and...

Everlasting Empire (Yongwonhan chekuk) is a Korean historical novel written as a murder mystery. The narrator frames the main story with his "discovery" of a 150-year-old manuscript. Because of problems verifying the authenticity of the manuscript, the narrator offers the book not as genuine...

A Sir Geoffrey Mappestone mystery Westminster, 1102.Once again about to depart for the Holy Land, Sir Geoffrey is furious to be summoned back by the King, trusting neither his methods of persuasion nor his motives. When he arrives at Court he finds two argumentative...

Will the remains of a soldier be the key that unlocks the secrets of Leysmorton Manor . . . ? 1922. Lady Emily Fitzallan has returned to the country house where she spent her childhood for a family wedding. Leysmorton Manor brings back many...

You need more Sherlock? You love the stories of The Canon but you want more ... more stories that are similar to the original sixty. You have come to the right place. Sixty New Sherlock Holmes Mysteries are being written as tribute stories to...

The eleven stories gathered together in these two volumes share their own common feature. All have connections to the world of belles lettres, the world of literature--some to celebrated authors in particular, others to themes or stories associated with specific writers . . ....

Part XIV: Charles Veley and Anna Elliott, Mark Sohn, David Marcum, S. Subramanian, Roger Riccard, Marcia Wilson, Tracy J. Revels, Arthur Hall, GC Rosenquist. Edwin A. Enstrom, Jayantika Ganguly, C.H. Dye, Matthew Booth, Stephen Herczeg, Geri Schear, Liz Hedgecock, Carl Heifetz, Gayle Lange Puhl,...

Sherlock Holmes's investigations were not always the neat and self-contained stories that were presented for publication. As Watson writes in his "Foreword" Holmes's cases overlapped one another considerably, often with the next beginning while the current was still in motion. Some moved linearly from...

The recent decease of one of the descendents of Dr. Watson has brought to light his personal papers. These include a number of stories that Dr. Watson suppressed at the time for various reasons. As all involved are long dead, the inheritor has agreed...

April, 1865. Matthew Grand, a former Yankee captain who witnessed the assassination of President Lincoln, and ambitious young journalist James Batchelor team up to track down the notorious Haymarket Strangler, who is garrotting young women in London's Soho district. Their investigations uncover a disturbing...

Second in the thrilling new Kit Marlowe historical mystery series - November, 1583. Desperate not to let the Netherlands fall into the hands of Catholic Spain, the Queen's spymaster orders Cambridge scholar and novice spy Christopher Marlowe to go there to assist its beleaguered...

In an exclusive residential neighborhood, a U.S. Senator's wife has died. Tommy Jacks and his fellow journalists don't believe the police chief's story blaming it on natural causes. It has the smell of a crime. So begins a new journey set in the 1960s...

It's 1888 -- the Autumn of Terror. Jack the Ripper is brutally murdering prostitues in Whitechapel, the poorest section of London. The police bungle the investigation and are stumied. Quee Victoria is pushing them to solve the case. Lady Sarah, a disgraced arisstocrat who...

The second book in the Izzy Walsh Mystery Series Springtime is beautiful in the cozy town of Twin Oaks, nestled along the New England coastline. It's 1954, and Izzy Walsh is at The Mariner's Whisper, Twin Oaks' most popular dinner club, for a girl's...

On the night of April 12, 1912, off the coast of Newfoundland, one of the greatest disasters of all time took place - the Unsinkable Titanic struck an iceberg and sank with a horrendous loss of life. On board that ship was Sherlock Holmes's...

INTO THE WOODSA leper's daughter is found in the well of a dying hamlet and the only suspect has fled into Feckenham Forest. But the sun is setting and Warwickshire's sheriff is hunting his new Crowner. That sends Sir Faucon de Ramis and Brother...

Holmes and Watson. Two names forever linked by mystery and danger from the beginning. Within the first year of their friendship and while both are young men, Holmes and Watson are still finding their way in the world, with all the troubles that such...

The corpse of an unpopular newcomer floats in the priory millpond. A Jewish family, refugees under the 1275 Statute of the Jewry, is accused. Did Jacob ben Asser kill him or was it Gytha, the prioress' maid? Even Prioress Eleanor now wonders if she...

Who murdered the French model at New York's Bernard Singer Couture? A white model and black business assistant at the firm are determined to find out in this 1927 jazz age, flapper age mystery. (This is the first of two, so far, mysteries in...

A two thousand year old secret leads Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson along a dark & death laden path to the lair of a ruthless master criminal. Even Holmes cannot foresee the final outcome.Author: Paul D. GilbertISBN-10: 1804241482ISBN-13: 9781804241486Publisher: MX PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/08/2021Pages: 178Format:...

The greatest mystery of the ancient world remains the identity of who set fire to the Great Library in Alexandria.One hundred years later, Heron of Alexandria-the city's most renown inventor and creator of Temple miracles-receives coin from a mysterious patron to investigate the crime....

Spilled secrets, a dead spy, and a missing spymaster. When your enemies take bold action, there's no room for hesitation.London, 1922. Theodora Laurent, femme fatale and undercover spy, has spent several months training Lord Rex to be her new partner. It's time for him...

I had no idea that anyone was carrying on the same dirty little tricks after all this time. Now I do. But if I don't move faster, they'll get me, before I can get them.How can a long dead traitor destroy the man who...

Lizzie Borden took an axe, gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one. Or did she? Lizzie was charged with the August 1892 murders, tried in a court of law, and acquitted, but the court...

An exciting standalone Cthulhu Casebooks narrative, a thrilling tale of mystery and dread, from the New York Times bestselling author. It's 1929 and an ageing Dr John Watson, conscious of his imminent demise, finally sits down to write a fresh chronicle disclosing the true...

On the eve of the Roman festivities, the last thing you'd expect Claudia Seferius to be doing is heading out of the city. Unfortunately, even hedonistic young widows have to put business before pleasure when their vineyards are threatened with arson. Taking a shortcut...