Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

Lily Dickinson's discovery of a dead gamekeeper in a cottage near a country lane leads to a search for his killer. Suspects range from employees of the nearby Grangehurst estate to a number of dangerous characters much closer to home. Before Lily can face...

Chicago video producer Ellie Foreman has been absent from thriller author Libby Fischer Hellmann's repertoire for almost a decade. Now, in Jump Cut, she's back...and is soon entangled in a web of espionage, murder, and suspicion that threatens to destroy what she holds most...

A Bullet for the Angel is a murder mystery set in 1959 San Francisco during the twilight of the Beatnik Era in North Beach and the dawn of urban gentrification in the Fillmore.Though John Maletesta leads a mostly uneventful life as a white college...

Be careful what you wish for...Jane believes in keeping her promises. But a deathbed vow in 1569 sets her on a twisting path of joy and deceit that takes her from the dark secrets of Holmwood House in York to the sign of the...

Volume IX contains the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first full-length Thorndyke adventures, published in 1938, 1940, and 1942, respectively. With each subsequent narrative, Thorndyke's skills and abilities grown and amaze.The Stoneware Monkey - A young doctor's encounter with a modern sculptor opens the door to...

Volume VIII contains the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth full-length Thorndyke adventures, published in 1934, 1936, and 1937, respectively. For the Defense: Dr. Thorndyke - Andrew Barton dreaded meeting up with his identical cousin that he usually tried to avoid. Then Death joined them, and...

Volume VII contains the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth Thorndyke novels, published in 1931, 1932, and 1933, respectively.Pontifex, Son, and Thorndyke - Jasper Gray is an enterprising fellow going about his typical day when he's drawn into a series of curious events. Meanwhile, Thorndyke is...

She owes him everything. He wants far more than money.Impoverished and determined to regain financial independence...Once a member of Boston's elite, Lady Sarah Smith-Jones is determined to rebuild her independence by becoming society's most sought-after dress designer. After her father gambled away their family...

Can the Black Sheep of the Family be its Guardian Angel? Cole Sage inherits a house and small farm in Oklahoma. A dusty old trunk opens up the world of the grandfather Cole never knew. Shrouded in mystery, what was the secret he took...

Villains from Scotland is a Pride and Prejudice Variation, a combination of Mystery and Romance. Elizabeth and Jane Bennet meet Fitzwilliam Darcy and Charles Bingley when the two ladies accompany their sister Kitty to Miss Betty's School for Young Ladies in London. Darcy's sister...

When an old friend asks Superintendent Tom Harper for help, he finds himself drawn into a deadly web of intimidation, corruption and misery on the streets of Leeds. Leeds, England. July, 1899. The hot summer has been fairly quiet for Detective Superintendent Tom Harper...

"Mallory and Garth are destined to become icons in the jazz age, historical mystery genre. They are private investigators with flair!" -Connie Shelton, USA Today bestselling author Private investigators Mallory, Garth and Mallory are settling into their new California lifestyle, and Woodie Garth has...

Beyond THE GATE OF GOLD, awaits the Angel of Darkness...August, 1884. Dr. John H. Watson has seen some peculiar things in the course of his three years as the flat-mate to Mr. Sherlock Holmes, Consulting Detective of 221B Baker Street. Letters written in blood,...

The Showdown With Her Past Is About To Begin... The last thing pistol-packing, burnt-out missionary woman Jenny Goodnight wants is trouble. Unfortunately for her, the town of Legacy is just about to go to war, with the secretive and powerful founding family on one...

THE ADVENTURE OF THE TREACHEROUS TRUST. A beautiful, brilliant young woman attracts the attention of a wealthy, older gentleman. He insist that she join the board of directors of a popular charity, run by his son. A meeting of the directors is held at...

Book three in the Inspector Lestrade series. In the year 1888, London was horrified by a series of brutal killings. All the victims were discovered in the same district, Whitechapel, and they were all prostitutes. But they weren't the only murders to perplex the...

Book one in the Inspector Lestrade series. 'In the circus, nothing is what it seems ...' Walk up Walk up This way for the greatest show on earth It is 1879. Disraeli is at Number Ten. The Zulu are being perfectly beastly to Lord...

November, 1938It began in Vienna, after a night of fire and fear. Stella Bled Lawrence made a promise and she kept it. But the job isn't done. Abel Hershmann's cousins, unaware of the danger, are heading to Venice in search of him and the...

A Sherlock Holmes fan for most of her life, Gayle Lange Puhl has collected in this volume her latest stories and studies on the Great Detective. Included here are her well-reviewed "Colonel Warburton's Madness" and "The Blood-Splattered Bridge," plus other entertaining adventures. Essays on...

An unseasonable snowstorm plunges village witch Meryall Holt into a whirlwind of confusion. A chance encounter with an injured man, covered in blood and unable to remember his own name, changes the course of both of their lives.Can Meryall help solve the puzzle of...

When Seb Foxley discovers a child's body in his workshop and another lad goes missing, our medieval sleuth is perplexed at every turn. His investigations take him across London Bridge to Bankside in Southwark, where he becomes embroiled in the sinister shadows of the...

A trip to London promises to be exciting as Lizzy tries to help Jane find a way to meet with Mr. Bingley. Her own experience is enlivened by meeting Lord Aumley, a handsome young viscount thrust into the world of Society unexpectedly. She wants...

Retired detective Dave and his wife, Linda, are back in New York City after their adventures in Israel and life is not quite what the couple expected it to be. Dave has become an alcoholic and a womanizer and Linda has thrown him out...

London, 1820. Britain and Continental Europe teeter on the edge of upheaval, but M lanie Rannoch tells herself she's left behind the dangers of the spy game and the sometimes equally-perilous intrigues of London society as she prepares for the premiere of her first...

Annie knows the secrets men whisper in her ears to impress her. When she disappears who will care? Who will look for her?Two girls sell cress on the streets of Victorian London. When they grow up they each take a different path. Annie's reckless...

Fischer Art Center 1968: Pop Art is onstage and Minimalism is in the wings but Damon Petroulis, Director of Public Relations, has to put his exciting job on hold to write a history of the reclusive family that endows the Art Center. He is...

Leeds, Autumn 1936. During a British Union of Fascists rally, a body is found. War veteran Detective Sergeant Urban Raven is tasked with finding the killer. But with virtually no clues, no witnesses and no obvious motive, he has few leads to start the...

May 1937 Georgette Dorothy Marsh has been revealed as the author Joseph Jones and she decides happiness is being away from the town she fictionalized. She's joined her friends in Bath and is enjoying the bookstores, the beautiful walks, and the teashops.When she gets...

Revolutionary terrorists, a dead British agent, a man-eating tiger, and the Commander of the British Army cavorting with a Russian spy.Since the assassination of Czar Alexander II in 1881, the oppression of the Russian people has increased dramatically under the rule of the new...

"An arresting and unpredictable tale of family." Kirkus ReviewsWinner of the Historical Fiction Company's "Highly Recommended" award of excellence, The Things We'll Never Have is part mystery, part psychological drama set in 1960s Italy about family, friendship, and the lies that bind us.The brightest...

Introducing reluctant spy and friar-sleuth Brother Rodric Chandler in the first of a brand-new medieval mystery series. London. July, 1399. As rumours spread that his ambitious cousin, Henry Bolingbroke, has returned from exile in France, King Richard's grip on the English throne grows ever...

India Steele is desperate. Her father is dead, her fiancé took her inheritance, and no one will employ her, despite years working for her watchmaker father. Indeed, the other London watchmakers seem frightened of her. Alone, poor, and at the end of her tether,...

Charlotte Bronte meets Agatha Christie in this wonderful historical adventure novel set in the 18th century about a penniless but clever young teacher who becomes embroiled in a plot involving spies, smugglers, a pair of identical watches, puzzles, codes, an inheritance, and a very...

AUSTRIA. 1686.Two plagues rage in the countryside. One plague is smallpox, a torturous disease that ravages the body, turning homes into tombs. The other ailment is more mysterious, a scourge of occult origin, a plague that ravages the mind and consumes the soul. Here...

Author: Daniel P. HennellyISBN-10: 1663253927ISBN-13: 9781663253927Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/30/2023Pages: 392Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.87d

December, 1940. Christmas is coming, but the season of goodwill is overshadowed by the death and destruction of the Blitz. In London's Covent Garden, where the glamour of theatreland rubs shoulders with the bustle of the capital's biggest fruit and vegetable market, the war...

A lethal new weapon endangers all of Europe--unless Elena Standish can rescue an ingenious scientist from Hitler's clutches--in this action-packed suspense novel by bestselling author Anne Perry. "Unbearably suspenseful . . . pushes the envelope and succeeds on nearly every level."--Bookreporter It is the...

December AD 192. The oldest bonds are the hardest severed. When Fabio's aunt Lucretia flexes her match-making muscles, he seeks escape from a marriage to shy, bored Adriane. Luckily, his friend Petros needs help investigating a possible rebellion in Vademlutra. All Fabio has to...

In depression era Philadelphia, Jewish upholsterer Jake Glazer prays for God's forgiveness while dodging man's retribution. Irish detective, John Maloney pursues him while struggling with his own conflict: he's in love with a Spanish divorcee. Marriage to her seems impossible until a ghost prods...

With his trusty ice pick in hand and his loyal-though erratic-sidekick riding shotgun, superstar lobotomist Dr. Walter Freeman drives his Lobotomobile coast to coast across post-war America, determined to save the country from its own troubled mind. With messianic fervor, an evangelist's sense of...

In the early spring of 1944, three nine-year-old boys bicycle to Double Woods, a patch of second and third growth woodland just beyond the borough limits of Newtown, Pennsylvania. While playing there, they find the body of a young woman, Penny Ringle, buried under...

From the curious clauses in a miser's will, to a sinister tradition in an old Tudor manor-house, these twelve cases, from the early years of Holmes's career in the 1880s, present a singular collection of mysteries for the world's first consulting detective to resolve.What...

Murder mystery takes place at the Coco Palms Hotel. It is prior to Elvis Presley coming to the hotel to film Blue Hawaii. The hotel manager Grace Buscher Guslander has to solve a murder of a very famous movie star who died at her...

The fact that women couldn't join the London Metropolitan Police was an injustice to Eleanora Galway. She found her way around such an obstacle: by forming a detective agency. When a note arrives from a duke concerning a mysterious and gruesome delivery, Eleanora agrees...

A sadistic killer is terrorizing Phoenix, and he's got Gene Hammons' number...It's 1936, and private investigator Gene Hammons has more work than he can handle. A crime syndicate, J. Edgar Hoover, a wealthy family from back East, and a wily stalker all want something...

Lady Georgiana Rannoch and her dashing husband, Darcy, are awaiting a bundle of joy, but an unexpected trip to Paris will thrust them straight into a tangled web of international intrigue in the next mystery of the New York Times bestselling Royal Spyness series...

Veronica and Stoker discover that not all fairy tales have happy endings, and some end in murder, in this latest historical mystery from New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author Deanna Raybourn. Lord Rosemorran has purchased a wax figure of a beautiful reclining...

Paris, Tuesday 22nd August 1911. The very air of the city is charged with outrage. The Mona Lisa is missing from its place of honour in the Louvre. 'What audacious criminal, what mystifier, what manic collector, what insane lover, has committed this abduction?' the...

Malice is an historical mystery novel set in a few momentous weeks in the spring of 1961. As the Kennedy administration is barely underway, congressional aide Alexandra Bell works to stop a CIA catastrophe in the making, the botched invasion of Cuba. Meanwhile, her...

France and Prussia - 1863, When someone close to Edward Tyrington is murdered, he is charged with bringing the murderer to justice. The murky path to catch the criminal leads him through the borderlands of France and Prussia, two countries on the brink of...