Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

In Rochester, New York, a woman disappears. The memory of her existence is wiped clean from everyone who knew her except for one friend with a crazy aunt.In Utica, Illinois, a young man disappears. Nobody cares except for the one person who doesn't believe...

"'Is it really possible, do you suppose, ' said Sherlock Holmes to me one morning, as we took breakfast together, 'that a healthy and robust man may be so stricken with terror that he drops down dead?'" The much praised Denis O. Smith introduces...

A SANDAL FROM EAST ANGLIA: To Sherlock Holmes she will always be The Nun. But is this brilliant young woman carrying on a secret double life - a life far too sensual for a member of a holy order? Sister Serena is helping archeological...

The Hoosac Tunnel Murders begins when seventeen-year old Ginger OAuthor: Chris H. WondoloskiISBN-10: 1508526400ISBN-13: 9781508526407Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/12/2015Pages: 366Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.08lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.76d

There's trouble afoot in Regency London's Jewish community, and no one to stop the crimes-until wealthy-widower-turned-sleuth Mr. Ezra Melamed teams up with an unlikely pair: General Well'ngone and the Earl of Gravel Lane, the leaders of a gang of young Jewish pickpockets. When a...

The Boystown Mystery series continues as Chicago private investigator Nick Nowak finds himself involved in three new cases. He's asked to help a young man who murdered his stepfather but refuses to assist in his own defense, hired to find the murderer of a...

When magistrate Patrick Colquhoun orders a habitual thief and ne'er-do-well transported to Botany Bay, he doesn't realize a fourteen-year-old boy has been left behind to follow in his father's footsteps-not until young John Pickett is hauled into Bow Street for stealing an apple from...

Tommy and Tuppence Beresford return in Agatha Christie's classic Postern of Fate, to investigate a deadly poisoning sixty years after the fact.Tommy and Tuppence Beresford have just become the proud owners of an old house in an English village. Along with the property, they...

In Death Comes As the End, Dame Agatha Christie transports us back to ancient Egypt 2000 B.C. where a priest's daughter, investigating a suspicious death, uncovers an asp's nest of jealousy, betrayal, and serial murder.It is Egypt in 2000 BC, where death gives meaning...

London, 1812. At a fashionable address in leafy Mayfair, a far cry from Detective Stephen Lavender's usual haunts, a man is found dead in his room. He has been brutally stabbed, but the door is locked from the inside and the weapon is missing.The...

December 1953Hugo Hawksworth is on the tail of rogue Cold War agents at a top-secret government facility, while back home at Selchester Castle they're awaiting the arrival of the new Earl--an American, the long-lost son of the murdered Lord Selchester.The town of Selchester, rich...

Their lives are ones of quiet contemplation--and brutal murder.Christmas Eve, 1176. Brother Maurice, monk of Fairmore Abbey, awaits the night prayer bell. But there is only silence. Cursing his fellow brother Cuthbert's idleness, he seeks him out--and in the darkness, finds him brutally murdered.Summoned...

Author: Linda BuxbaumISBN-10: 1503522997ISBN-13: 9781503522992Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/12/2014Pages: 254Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

Death Valley is a remote desert area located in eastern California. Situated within the Mojave Desert region, it features the lowest, driest, and hottest locations in all of North America. Badwater, a basin located within the Valley, is the specific point of the lowest...

As King Arthur gathers his council of lords to debate the Saxon threat, his old cook is found murdered in the lane, a fancy neck bracelet, a torc, the only clue. Malgwyn, Arthur's one-armed councilor, is assigned to find the killer. But the death...

Can fear kill? When the body of a night watchman is found sprawled in the shadow of a rare nineteenth-Dynasty mummy case, a look of terror frozen on his face, panic ensues. No one doubts that the guard's untimely demise is the work of...

Another brilliant and out-of-the-ordinary murder mystery by the author of Year of the Hyenas, with an unusual and interesting detective, this time trying to pursue and rescue his own ex-wife, sold into slavery in the city of Babylon (in modern times, near Baghdad) at...

In the tradition of the old Ace Double two-in-one books (flip one book over to read the other), here's the seventh Wildside Mystery Double: VICTORIAN VILLAINY: A Collection of Moriarty Stories, by Michael Kurland. Among the world's great fictional villains, Prof. James Moriarty, Sherlock...

As friends, the boisterous and brash American Beryl couldn't be less alike than the prim and proper British Edwina. But as sleuths in an England recovering from the Great War, they're the perfect match . . . 1920: Flying in the face of convention,...

When Hannah Breed confides to midwife Rose Carroll that she’s pregnant out of wedlock, Rose promises to help her through the pregnancy and figure out a way to break the news to her family. But that night, amid the noise and revelry of the...

No one doubted Abraham Lincoln's honesty. No one doubted his loyalty to his friends. But what happened when his two core values collided? Rumors swirl that to save the son of his oldest friend from hanging Lincoln falsified evidence and suborned perjury. The contest...

Peking, 1867 When one of the Empress's ladies-in-waiting is killed in the Forbidden City, she orders Inspector Gong to find the killer. Unfortunately, as a man, he is forbidden from entering the Inner Court. How is he supposed to solve a murder when he...

Sherlock Holmes meets The X-Files in this acclaimed paranormal mystery series from the author of the Fourth Element Trilogy It's August 1888, just three weeks before Jack the Ripper will terrorize Whitechapel, and another serial murderer is stalking the streets of New York. His...

A reluctant lady sleuth finds she's investigating her own family. Step into Lady Helena Whitcombe's world with the first novel in a series that will blend family saga and mystery-driven action with a slow-burn romance in seven unputdownable investigations.1881, Sussex. Lady Helena Scott-De Quincy's...

England 1923 and the Great War still casts a dark shadow over the lives of ordinary people. Grieving widow, Helen Morrow, has come to England from Australia seeking answers to her questions about her husband's death at Passchendaele in 1917.The only person who can...

Kemet (Egypt) 2974 B.C.E. The tranquility of the Temple of Mehyt is shattered when the high priest and priestess are found murdered. To uncover who killed them, Queen Merneith calls upon an unlikely pair to investigate. Satsobek, a former priestess and the daughter of...

This is the second story of Togas, daggers, and Magic - for lovers of Ancient Rome, Hardboiled detectives, and Urban Fantasy.A rich landlord finds tenants are abandoning his apartment buildings, spouting tales of horrific events and whispering that the old gods - the numina...

When the violent arrest of an innocent apprentice sparks a riot in Southwark during the summer of 1592, more lies behind it than a simple grievance. Increasing poverty, vagrancy, and crime in a restless London compel a nervous Privy Council to close the playhouses,...

When Kit Alvarez returns from Muscovy, it is to discover that her post as physician at St Thomas's hospital has been given to another. Trying to eke out the small income she earns from some of Dr Nu ez's private patients, she undertakes paid...

An agent sent to Muscovy to investigate suspected treason amongst employees of the Muscovy Company has disappeared without trace on the way to Astrakhan. Sir Francis Walsingham, who began the investigation, is dead, but the directors of the Company know that the agent must...

For Thomas Berrington, torn between two warring civilisations, Ronda is an escape from the madness engulfing Gharnatah. For al-Zagal, the default leader of al-Andalus, it is a return to his mountain stronghold. During the year 1485 this should be a time of recovery and...

Nazis, black magic and secret history collide in Craig McDonald's The Great Pretender. In 2007, McDonald launched the Hector Lassiter series with the Edgar Award-nominated debut, "Head Games", pairing the globetrotting, larger-than-life crime novelist with equally legendary filmmaker and amateur magician Orson Welles. McDonald's...

The year after defeating the Spanish Armada, England retaliates. The expedition to Portugal sets out to destroy what remains of Spain's Atlantic fleet, drive the Spanish out of Portugal, put the claimant Dom Antonio of Aviz on the throne, and seize the Azores. But...

Violence, greed and betrayal threaten the remote communities of East Anglia in the seventeenth century, when ruthless and unscrupulous speculators steal their common lands, while fanatic Puritans bring accusations of heresy and witchcraft. Granddaughter of a local hero, Mercy Bennington moves out of the...

AD 60. Southern Britain is occupied by the Roman Army. When a mutilated body is brought into the garrison, a complex web of mystery, deceit and suspense is revealed. Tiberius, the army surgeon, is propelled into solving the hideous crime using his medical knowledge...

Key West, 1925: the USA's southernmost point and the most un-American of American locales; a rowdy border town surrounded by water and populated by sports fishermen, naval veterans and Cuban revolutionists - misfits and mavericks, all. After several years abroad, crime writer Hector Lassiter...

When a bottle of whiskey is found amid the ruins of a centuries-old ship uncovered at the Ground Zero construction site, Samuel Dugranval, a.k.a "The Flying Distiller," is immediately intrigued. Along with his lab assistant, David Dubehash, he'll stop at nothing for a taste...

In spring, 1934, John Dillinger made his infamous "wooden gun" escape from an Indiana prison. Within 24 hours he had found a hideout in Minnesota's Twin Cities. The Resurrection of John Dillinger is a novel based on the last spring of Dillinger's life, between...

Siberian Secrets is the final volume in a trilogy of historical fiction that follows the investigations of Inspector Vasiliev and Sergeant Serov of the Moscow police into the plots to assassinate Alexander II, the pogroms in Kiev and the Siberian exile system. "Siberian Secrets...

"An earnest...debut novel of ideas. This historical why-dunit...carries some real emotional weight." - Kirkus Reviews "Self-Deliverance is a novel that touches upon the historical and fictional/imaginative lives of its fascinating characters. Otterman writes with authority and elegance and this book has it all-desire, love,...

St. Louis was the fourth largest city in America; the crossroads linking East and West; the jewel of the Mississippi River; a thriving industrial metropolis, where dreams came true and great fortunes were made. Yet, the mighty city had a dark side; the hustle...

When young Galveston Gazette society reporter Jazz Cross hears rumors of grave robbers at the Broadway Cemetery, she and photographer Nathan Blaine investigate, hoping to land a scoop. The newshawks witness meetings held by clandestine gangs and enlist the help of her beau, Prohibition...

FROM A USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR comes a heartwarming mystery that is rich with imagination and magic. In Previously Loved Treasures, Book Two of The Serendipity Series, recently widowed Ida Sweetwater finds the granddaughter she never knew she had and turns a group of...

Deadly Occupation is Book 1 in the Michael Stoddard American Revolution Mystery series. If you like Diana Gabaldon, Bernard Cornwell, and Jim Butcher, then you'll love this fast-paced, tension-filled detective novel."Thick with intrigue and subplots to keep readers guessing." - Caroline Clemmons, author of...

Nineteen-thirty-seven was a hell of a year for news. Japan invaded China, Amelia Earhart began her 'round-the-world flight, the Hindenburg blew up, and the people of San Francisco were listening to the crime story of the decade on their radios. The man they were...

There's trouble afoot in Regency London's Jewish community, and no one to stop the crimes-until wealthy-widower-turned-sleuth Mr. Ezra Melamed teams up with an unlikely pair: General Well'ngone and the Earl of Gravel Lane, the leaders of a gang of young Jewish pickpockets. David Salomon,...

Elizabethan EnglandHe was the last man she needed, but the only one she wanted.Orlando Holt has never assassinated a woman before. The lovely, feisty Lady Lynden will be his first. She's supposed to be a vicious murderess, but when Orlando begins to have doubts,...

Blood and intrigue abroadWinter 1763. Alec, Lord Halsey is sent on a diplomatic mission to Midanich, imperial outpost of the Holy Roman Empire, to bargain for the freedom of imprisoned friends. Midanich is a place of great danger and dark secrets, a country at...

A poisoned vicar and the mysterious MirandaAutumn 1763. Alec Halsey has been elevated to a marquessate he doesn't want and Polite Society believes he doesn't deserve. And with the suspicion he murdered his brother still lingering in London drawing rooms, returning to the city...

Autumn 1373: The grandson of the powerful Lord of the Isles vanishes on the windswept island of Colonsay, and rumors fly that he has been spirited away by the faerie. Muirteach MacPhee investigates, suspecting the boy's disappearance has more to do with the mysterious...