Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

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...

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...

Weddings bells don't mix with mourners' wails. Days before a young woman's joyful event, a vicious attack leaves nothing but a trail of blood and sorrow. Tasked with the impossible, Detective Hodgins struggles to find any motive for the brutal assault. His only clue...

When Sylvia Shipman's uncle plunges to his death on the eve of a catastrophic stock market crash, the verdict is suicide. But Sylvia doubts the official story after seeing a sinister stranger fleeing the scene. She doubts it even more after learning of her...

'Heather Atkinson's Victorian chiller is one that will keep readers engrossed all through the night and terrified of switching the lights off.'Edinburgh 1896Amy Alardyce's once-perfect life is in tatters. Her eldest son, Robert, has come of age, become the master of his own home,...

The unfortunate Mr Jacobs has had his home burgled and a treasured item from his Japanese netsuke collection is missing. Clara is called in to see if she can solve what seems an impossible mystery - who stole the green jade dragon and where...

Florence, 1553. An assassin sent by Arma Dei disappears into the night, with him a collection of heretical art and writings.For five centuries the satchel, containing sketches and writings by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and many others, is pursued by kings, popes, princes, and...

Jake Reynolds is an art thief. A master artist who can create an exact replica of any famous canvas, in intricate detail. So precise and elegant is his work that even today, hanging on the walls of the most prestigious museums and art galleries...

On the island of Minorca some things never change: the sun shines, the breeze ruffles the Mediterranean, and the Grand Dukes are eternally in debt.Grand Duke Ramon XX doesn't let his permanent state of near-bankruptcy interfere with the simple pleasures of life: a good...

Author: Jane SmileyISBN-10: 0525436081ISBN-13: 9780525436089Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/07/2023Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.70dReview Citation(s): Shelf Awareness 11/10/2023

A botanical illustration of a butterfly, a missing baby, and a twisty mystery fifty years in the making.1868, Morpeth. Theodora Breckenridge, still in mourning after the loss of her parents and brother at sea, is more interested in working quietly on her art at...

Lestrade of the Yard lives in the shadows of Holmes and Watson in the Conan Doyle canon. In this set of new supernatural cases the dogged Inspector comes into his own as he is taken to the dark corners of the old city that...

A gruesome murder in York may be just what Scotland Yard Detective John Ferguson needs toget his life back on track.John had been a rising star before he joined the army to fight for God and country against theGermans. He suffered from crippling shellshock,...

The second in the delightful Dear Miss Hermione mystery series from Anastasia Hastings--when you represent the best-loved Agony Aunt in Britain, fielding questions from both irate housekeepers and heartbroken mothers is par for the course..."Dear Miss Hermione--what is a mother to do?" Sensible Violet...

The night of London's grandest ball, a bold group of women downstairs launch a daring revenge heist against Mayfair society in this dazzling historical novel about power, gender, and class.Mrs. King is no ordinary housekeeper. Born into a world of con artists and thieves,...

"Exquisite and gripping. . . . The Gulf is a page turner to be savored; Cochran is a master of both prose and plot."--Ilana Masad, author of All My Mother's LoversIn this electrifying debut literary thriller, set on the gulf coast of Texas in...

SHERLOCK HOLMES MEETS THE OLD WEST IN THIS EXCITING DETECTIVE ADVENTURE CHOCK-FULL OF CRIME LORDS AND CUTTHROATS.Sherlock Holmes-obsessed Big Red and Old Red Amlingmeyer are hanging up their spurs and bringing their sleuthing to the dangerous streets of San Francisco. And despite their unfamiliarity...

A gentleman found dead in a first-class compartment of the London to Brighton express has a fortune in jewels and a fabulous painting in his luggage. His identity and that of his attacker are shrouded in mystery. Is this a robbery or a bespoke...

In 1889, people are dying in Three Rivers, Virginia in gruesome ways, and lazy but erudite Sheriff, Maxwell Blount, will have to solve the cases, including one behind the walls of his very own jail where a man has been flayed alive while the...

Liv, the owner of the White House Dollhouse Store in Minneapolis, strives to keep her store afloat while investigating the murder of an employee. The employee was an actress in the neighborhood production about President Wilson and Mrs. Wilson. When the employee is murdered,...

It wasn't enough that the Toy Soldier should meet his disastrous end on the heels of Felix the Cat's midair explosion over Broadway at the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, but to add insult to injury, Dorothy Parker comes face to face with a...

In 1908 the Potter Hotel dominated the oceanfront along Santa Barbara's West Beach. Thirty-six acres of lush gardens and pathways surrounded the luxurious six-story hotel with more than four hundred magnificent guest rooms. April of that year saw the arrival of the Great White...

When Sherlock Holmes recovered a compromising photograph and saved the reputation of the King of Bohemia he thought the case was closed. However, the attractive villainess, Irene Adler - now a respectable married woman - summoned Holmes a year after her marriage to further...

In this first instalment of the Bow Street Rivals series a riot breaks out in Dartmoor prison, enabling some American inmates to escape. The twin detectives Peter and Paul Skillen catch wind of a projected assassination but the target is unknown. Trouble ensues when...

"Clare produces another winner ... this magical adventure story, full of joy, danger, and sadness, will draw both Clare's crime-fiction fans as well as fantasy readers" Booklist Apprentice healer Lassair uncovers the secrets of the mysterious City of Pearl in the compelling new Aelf...

Author: Louise O'FlahertyISBN-10: 0595143938ISBN-13: 9780595143931Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2000Pages: 196Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.02w x 0.51d

First published as Out of Shot under A. C. Koning. Berlin, 1933. The Nazi regime is gaining devastating power as Hitler is appointed Chancellor and stark oppression begins to unfold in Germany, blind war veteran Frederick Rowlands takes on the most challenging investigation of...