Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

2017 is the 130th anniversary of the publication of A Study in Scarlet, the first recorded adventure of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson. What an amazing journey it's been In addition to the pitifully few sixty tales originally presented in The Canon,...

While people across the world were engrossed in the discovery of King Tut's tomb, the community of Slocum, Kentucky, was caught up in the murder of one of its own. In 1927, Alvin Clemens, a 41-year-old husband and father was murdered in his home....

Nineteenth-century New Orleans is a blazing hotbed of scorching politics and personal vendettas. And it's into this fire that Benjamin January falls when he is hired to follow Oliver Weems, a bank official who has absconded with $100,000 in gold and securities. But it's...

One of London's first forensic detectives chases a grisly killer in this stunning debut mystery rich in period detail and sinister intrigue. London in 1856 is gripped by a frightening obsession. The specimen-collecting craze is growing, and discoveries in far-off jungles are reshaping the...

Pete Dana tracks the hidden danger that threatens his life in a peaceful New England seaside town.Author: John Stephen DohertyISBN-10: 1479425141ISBN-13: 9781479425143Publisher: Wildside PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/20/2024Pages: 144Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34d

Set against the backdrop of London's dangerous East End in 1888, Victorian propriety and passions collide when a beautiful widow makes a wager with a wounded police detective bent on solving the Ripper mystery. Unlucky in love and estranged from his family, Detective Sergeant...

Author: Samantha SorelleISBN-10: 1952789206ISBN-13: 9781952789205Publisher: Balcarres Books LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/17/2024Pages: 250Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.57d

Author: Jess ArmstrongISBN-10: 1250374650ISBN-13: 9781250374653Publisher: Minotaur BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/04/2025Pages: 336Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.25h x 6.12w x 1.00d

The Investigative Countess, Rapier Sharp Logic paired with Great Insight and Boldness. A Private Inquiry Agent.When the dowager countess receives her first assignment as a private inquiry agent from Tuchinsky, an East End gangster, she immediately throws herself into the case with gusto. Meanwhile,...

Step into 1897 Victorian London: Unravel Love and Intrigue with The Tabitha & Wolf Historical Mystery Series, where Mystery meets Romance with a splash of Humour.Who is this mysterious woman from Wolf's past who can so easily summon him to her side?When Lady Arlene...

The BRAND NEW beautiful historical novel from Victoria Scott, perfect for fans of Evie Woods, Kate Storey and Rachel Burton. A secret buried for decades... A story that will change everything. 1940: When twenty-one-year-old Nita Bineham is offered the chance of independence, away from...

Crime novelist Raymond Chandler meets philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in a remote corner of County Galway in 1948. As the two notoriously-reclusive men develop an unlikely friendship, they stumble into a conspiracy that involves former Nazis, the US House Un-American Activities Committee, and a cat...

Pirates in Penzance? Queen Elizabeth's half-sister and secret agent Ursula Stannard takes on a dangerous new mission involving mysterious disappearances and murder in Cornwall in this gripping Tudor mystery.1594. Ursula Stannard is attending on her half-sister, Queen Elizabeth, when she receives an urgent summons...

An otherwordly place. An unnatural monster. A grisly murder...The date is 1205.Aumary Belvoir warden of the forest of Savernake and the king's constable in the county of Wiltshire has barely been able to conclude his last inquiry before he is called again to investigate...

The adventures of Sherlock Holmes and his associate Elizabeth Bennet continue...The Apparition at Rosing's ParkNewly-married Charlotte Lucas, now Mrs. Collins, has invited Lizzie to stay with her for a short while. At the same time, Lady Catherine de Bourgh is facing a mysterious problem...

A Wall Street Journal Best Mystery of 2018 A GUARDIAN BEST CRIME BOOK AND THRILLER FOR 2017 Longlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award for 2018 The Accident on the A35 returns to the scene of Burnet's accomplished first...

Jack Novac, Indy 500 winner, plans a new assault for the 1934 Championship with his two fabulous Miller front drive race cars. Then the rules change and his Millers are not eligible. When a retired army general offers to sponsor Jack on a barnstorming...

This final volume in the Fu-Manchu collection brings together some unpublished manuscripts, and stories which have previously appeared only in magazine form, by the late Sax Rohmer. The long title novella and three others feature the dastardly Dr. Fu-Manchu - and, of course, his...

As Glasgow is buried under snow, a killer is on the loose and a deadly secret threatens to take Brodie to the edge of sanityIt's 1947 and the worst winter in memory: Glasgow is buried in snow, killers stalk the streets, and Douglas Brodie's...

The mysterious Russian invasion hoax that shook colonial New Zealand.In January 1873, New Zealand, in a sparsely populated coastal community on Wellington's south coast, the peaceful lives of Owhiro Bay residents were shattered with the discovery of two brutal and senseless murders.Under cover of...

A boy coming of age in a time of war...the love that inspires him to survive. For ten year-old Jeremiah Prins, a life of privilege as the son of a school headmaster in the Dutch East Indies comes crashing to a halt in 1942....

DI Herbert Reardon investigates the murder of an enigmatic woman who was about to leave her comfortable life behind and mysteriously disappear in this page-turning 1930s historical mystery with gasp-worthy revelations. 1935, Templewood, Worcestershire. Judge Waring's glamorous wife Emilie is mysteriously missing and no...

Author: Jenny WheelerISBN-10: 1067012249ISBN-13: 9781067012243Publisher: Happy Families LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/05/2024Pages: 368Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.03lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.82d

Author: Jenny WheelerISBN-10: 1067012214ISBN-13: 9781067012212Publisher: Happy Families LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/10/2024Pages: 346Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.77d

Author: John D. NesbittISBN-13: 9798895675144Publisher: Wolfpack Publishing LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/14/2025Pages: 282Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.70d

Author: John DeguireISBN-13: 9798990870956Publisher: JohndeguireLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/20/2024Pages: 362Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.34lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.94d

Step into 1897 Victorian London: Unravel Love and Intrigue with The Tabitha & Wolf Historical Mystery Series, where Mystery meets Romance with a splash of Humour.Wolf had hoped he could put his thief-taking life behind him when he unexpectedly inherited an earldom.Jeremy Wolfson Chesterton,...

It was a simple choice: The stranger or the hangman. On the eve of "Dr." William Johnson's execution, a rough, mysterious man comes to Newgate Prison demanding his release. The stranger calls himself Detective Coombs. He claims Johnson is his assistant and helped him...

In the winter of 1893, William Smith awakens to an intruder in his Medford home. Paralyzed by a sinister drug, he faces a familiar yet shadowy figure intent on framing his death as a tragic suicide. As William's life flashes before his eyes, he...

Five years ago, Henry, Lord Glossup, was suspected of murdering his late wife. Although he was exonerated and the true murderer caught, Henry has been accused of murdering a lady again, in the same fashion. He appeals to Barnaby and Penelope for help, as...

During the untold millennia before patriarchy was conceived, the world was a very different place. Nothing concealed stays buried forever.THE ARKANA SERIESThe forgotten past refuses to stay buried in an artifact hunt spanning continents, centuries, and lost civilizations. The prize is a cache of...

Facing his most cunning foe, can Robert serve the Lord, save the king, and forestall civil war?It's 1630 and there's a bounty on the head of King Charles I. English cities are plastered with pamphlets and posters promising riches and honors to whoever kills...

From a fog shrouded London, to a North Country castle and on to Casablanca, the duo seem to be followed by the mist swirling around the doorway at 221B, obscuring the shadows they pursue.Author: David Taylor, Maurice BarkleyISBN-10: 1710090502ISBN-13: 9781710090505Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/21/2019Pages:...

"...This story centers around Isabelle, a woman recently bereft of her Civil War beau, and a journalist named Paul Delahoussaye who has come to the family home of Belle Ombre to return a packet of loveletters Isabelle had written to her fiance. He has...

A shocking discovery leads to the unraveling of a murder mystery in the charming Victorian village of Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Filled with historic background from one hundred years ago and the flavor of the artistic community of present day Eureka Springs, Mystery of the...

A SCARLET TRAIL OF MURDER. At ten o'clock on Sunday morning, the twenty-second of October, 1882, in an abandoned house in the West Bottom of Kansas City, just a stone's throw from the stockyards, a fellow named Jasper Harrison did not wake up. His...

London 1600. When an attempt is made on Queen Elizabeth's life, Serjeant Noah Ames races to her rescue, then sets out to identify the culprit among a band of foreigners who've newly arrived from the Continent to join with the seditious Lord Essex. In...

The new novel in the ever-popular Hawkenlye series Autumn, 1210. A year ago, King John was excommunicated and now his men have come to Hawkenlye Abbey to take it over. Abbess Caliste, Helewise's successor, worries how she is to feed the nuns under her...

Author: Paul MartinISBN-13: 9798218511876Publisher: Gemini OriginalsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/10/2024Pages: 264Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.60dReview Citation(s): PW Booklife Reviews 12/02/2024

"Vetsch has masterfully crafted another page-turner full of mystery, adventure, sparkling dialogue, and shimmering Regency details!" --Amanda Wen, Carol Award-winning author of The Rhythm of Fractured Grace The Home Office has asked Sir Bertrand Thorndike to head an investigation into stolen royal jewels. And...

A house of secrets, an impossible attractionOn a personal quest, Constance Silver, who runs Mayfair's most exclusive brothel, has lied her way into Greenforth Manor, home of respectable and charismatic provincial banker, Walter Winsom. She feels quite safe from recognition until Solomon Grey joins...

Western silver heiress Val DeVere expects nothing but joy at an elegant Newport picnic in 1899, only to be abruptly summoned to New York by a close friend's urgent and cryptic plea: "PLEASE HELP...THEO B."In New York, Theo confides in Val, begging her to...

Destined for a life beyond her wildest dreams, born fifth in succession to the throne, and determined to get to the bottom of a most foul puzzle. The future queen becomes a rebellious sleuth when she vows to solve the mystery of a dead...

A murder in Yellowstone reveals a historical conspiracy, drawing a park ranger into the heart of a centuries-old mystery."...a masterful blend of historical intrigue and contemporary mystery." --Gary McAvoy, bestselling author of The Magdalene DeceptionWhen a history professor is fatally shot at the base...

In this imaginative cozy mystery, the search for a missing maid leads Miss Caroline Bingley from Jane Austen's beloved Pride & Prejudice into murder and mayhem in the gritty underbelly of Regency London.Two years after her brother Charles Bingley weds Miss Jane Bennett, Miss...

As Prohibition era speakeasies and Jazz Age excitement reign supreme throughout a deeply divided country at the height of the Roaring 20s, a young psychic in small town Illinois helps the Black community fight crime and corruption in this thrilling historical mystery written by...

Harold Bergman, a Jewish private detective and World War II veteran, is approached to locate a missing girl. Little does he know, this seemingly routine case plunges him into a labyrinth of deceit, entwined with a looming threat to national security. Meanwhile, a distraught...

"Fresh and exciting, with both humor and thrills, Griffiths' first book in her new series knocks it out of the park!"--Shari Lapena Cold cases are a lot easier to solve when you can travel back in time to find new evidence. Unless, that is,...

It's 1825, and Henry Rockcliff has been living in self-imposed exile in France for nearly a decade. But when his former army commander asks him to investigate a series of mysterious shipwrecks in his native England, and introduce a revolutionary lighthouse lens to his...

Rodney Alcala and Ted Bundy had a lot in common. They also did not. Both were avid serial killers, and they were both executed for their avid appetite for killing young, beautiful, vivacious women. They were also both charming, good looking, and could blend...