Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

Henry Johnstone has retired from the police, but when he suddenly disappears his old colleague and friend, Inspector Mickey Hitchens, investigates. December, 1930. Henry Johnstone has retired from his role as detective chief inspector at London's Scotland Yard and is staying at the home...

When Fredericka Wing arrives in South Sutton, Massachusetts, a tiny New England town, it seems an ideal place for a working summer vacation. She plans on managing Miss Hartwell's bookstore while working on her own writing. She never dreamed she would find a body...

Beware the Old Lion Who Jealously Guards His Pride In 1911 Arizona, as Sheriff Paco Alaniz investigates the murder of Don Santiago Castillo de Leon, he must deal with the priest who seems to be more than a confessor to the distraught widow, a...

In the past, a murder at Villa Adele in 1901 deceives the Monte Carlo commissioner of police causing the death of an innocent man. In 1951, new evidence is disclosed along with lost treasure fortune seekers are willing to kill for.Author: D. M. SorlieISBN-10:...

Nuclear physics after years of developing the Atomic bomb hides in shame as a circus clown, but laughter turns deadly when the real anarchists stepped out from behind the masquerade. Author: D. M. SorlieISBN-10: 1393141714ISBN-13: 9781393141716Publisher: Enchanted Island PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/31/2020Pages: 116Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.29lbsSize:...

San Francisco, 1941, The Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor, and a young code breaker, Lieutenant Sue Lee Ono, suddenly finds herself in the rapidly progressing timeline of the war. Her personal world is caught up in prejudice, deception, espionage, and murder after finding a...

★★★★★ "Half way through I was waiting for Harrison Ford to leap out of the pages!" -Deanne, Review for The Coelho MedallionThe third Dan Kotler archaeological thriller!As new technology, based on forbidden historic research, emerges, it quickly turns from hope for millions to a...

When celebrated war correspondent Jack Rogan receives a phone call during a bloody battle in Afghanistan, he knows something is wrong; his father is dying. With his last breath, Rogan's father makes a disturbing revelation that rocks his son to the core and leaves...

Up and coming circus performer, Jeri Deane, finds a young clown strangled inside a beloved lion's cage. The tow sheriff's threat to close down the Big Top won't stop her from finding his killer. Beneath the spangles and sawdust of the canvas sky, Jeri...

Three bodies . . . A dark secret . . . And one woman determined to uncover the truth. Sicily, October 1866. At a high-class house near Palermo, three women are knifed to death, their foreheads slashed with a strange mark, their bodies dumped...

Anne Loveday, a surgeon's daughter, is determined to live a single, useful life. To escape her matchmaking stepmother, she accepts an invitation from an old friend to return to Painswick, the place she and her sister spent many happy summers until that last, fateful...

In this captivating novel, a proper English lady and her young, dashing son get caught up in a spy network in World War I. It remains for her grandson to entangle the web of their activities on Putney Bridge.Author: David Fitz-EnzISBN-10: 0761872574ISBN-13: 9780761872573Publisher: Hamilton...

November 1940. Darkness descends and another anxious night begins for those tasked with guarding the industrial heartland of London from enemy attack. As a policeman patrols the Royal Albert Dock, something catches his eye - a man is sprawled awkwardly across a nearby barge,...

Lady Georgiana "Georgie" Rannoch is just like any other new mother, balancing responsibilities such as being 34th in line for the British throne and solving the mysterious deaths of several young men, in the newest case from the queen of historical mystery, Rhys Bowen....

Les South Regent Mansions bénéficient de tout le confort moderne... meurtre compris. Londres, février 1924. Détective discrète de la haute société, Olive Belgrave est ravie de son nouvel appartement à South Regent Mansions, où elle s'est liée d'amitié avec plusieurs résidents. Parmi eux, Minerva,...

Jane Ward was sure of three things... Her painting was a Van Gogh. Only one man would believe her. That man was a killer.From the acclaimed author of The Forbidden Zone comes a soaring adventure of two women, separated by time, but united by...

Your undercover operation is blown before you get to San Francisco. What next? If you're Orpen, you join the cops. Sort of. It's the Fall of 1883. Irish revolutionaries are changing the face of London with American dynamite, and not in a good way....

A spy missing. A village full of secrets... and one very persistent Pomeranian. The peaceful village of Crofter's Green buzzes with questions when a young commando trainee is found dead at the ruins of St. Swithin's Abbey. The military calls it an accident-but is...

A sudden death interrupts what should have been an enjoyable day for Barbara Hollis. Once again, with Craig and Deputy Elwood at her side, Barbara must delve into the unhappy scandals and secrets certain inhabitants of Cobbsville will do anything to hide.Author: Blythe BakerISBN-13:...

Asterton's popular garden fair is interrupted by the shocking news that Jacob, the elderly gardener at Winterfrost Hall, lies dead. But worse news is to come. Inspector Strong soon ascertains that Jacob was strangled by an unknown assailant. Who would want to kill a...

'Pacy, absorbing and intelligent' Chris LloydEngland 1562. Elizabeth's court is besieged by scandal and Catholic plots, when a young German prince arrives in England claiming to be the son of Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves - and so the rightful King. His letters,...

Sherlock Holmes, the world's "only unofficial consulting detective", was first introduced to readers in A Study in Scarlet published by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887. It was with the publication of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, however, that the master sleuth grew tremendously...

Don't let murder get in the way of immortality.Laelius Calvus wants to start his own religion. Something grandiose and profitable, without being weighed down by minor details such as which god to worship. The only things standing between him and a temple-funded expenses account...

Author: Kathleen Marple KalbISBN-10: 1685129668ISBN-13: 9781685129668Publisher: Level Best - HistoriaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/29/2025Pages: 262Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.59d

THE GRECIAN, EARNED. You are a fan of Sherlock Holmes, right? You have read and even re-read the entire Canon. But you need more Sherlock. And what you need is the real Sherlock -- set in Victorian/Edwardian London, where Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson...

After a wealthy woman is strangled in a hospital full of relatives and friends, Ellery Queen searches for her deadly enemy.Author: Ellery QueenISBN-10: 1432882872ISBN-13: 9781432882877Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/02/2020Pages: 465Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.27lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.70w x 0.90dLarge Print

Penrose and Pyke must put aside their own problems in a race against the clock to rescue a kidnapped infant.When private detective Charlie Penrose Pyke is asked to investigate the kidnapping of a child, his instinct is to refuse. As their first wedding anniversary...

Harrogate, 1892, and a series of bizarre attacks coincides with the arrival of a freak show in the town. This contains just a single exhibit: a creature declared to be Charles Darwin's long sought-for but hitherto undiscovered Missing Link between mankind and the great...

Paris, 1899. Abigail Wilson has received an invitation from Professor Alphonse Flamand, a prominent French Professor of Archaeology, to join him on a dig in Egypt. Overjoyed to be presented with such an opportunity, Abigail and her husband, Daniel, travel to Paris to meet...

New York, 1910. George Dillman and Genevieve Masefield have crossed the Atlantic Ocean numerous times in their capacity as ship's detectives. On those crossings they've had the pleasure, and in some cases the trouble, of sailing with very famous passengers. Dukes. Duchesses. Artists. Actors....

Louisa May Alcott returns in this "historically accurate and entertaining mystery series." (The New York Review of Books) Louisa convinces her family to visit cousins in rural New Hampshire, only to confront tragedy. A local bachelor is found dead in a ravine, the apparent...

Author: Bruce AlexanderISBN-10: 0425165663ISBN-13: 9780425165669Publisher: Berkley BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/1998Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 6.75h x 4.15w x 0.92d

From the author of The Ashes of London, comes a new historical mystery set in the last days of WWII 'A grand piece of work - a triumph and one of Taylor's best' MICK HERRON 'A wonderfully unique novel from the master of historical...

Author: Stephanie LaurensISBN-10: 1925559769ISBN-13: 9781925559767Publisher: Savdek Management Pty LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/17/2025Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.51d

September, 1943 Things are looking up for P.I. Betty Ahern. She's hired a part-time employee and is on the lookout for an office from which she can run her private investigation firm. She's also getting a reputation throughout Buffalo as someone who will help...

Author: Blythe BakerISBN-13: 9798281469371Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/02/2025Pages: 262Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.59d

Jane Ward was sure of three things... Her painting was a Van Gogh. Only one man would believe her. That man was a killer.From the acclaimed author of The Forbidden Zone comes a soaring adventure of two women, separated by time, but united by...

Enter the captivating world of 19th-century England with M. E. Braddon's "A Strange World, Volume 3 of 3: A Novel." This Victorian novel, a meticulously prepared republication of a historical text, delves into the intricate tapestry of English society through a lens of mystery...

Lord Julian Caldicott is standing in for his ducal brother as manager of Yuletide merriment at the family seat. Alas for his lordship, nothing is going as planned. Cranky relatives arrive uninvited, family squabbles ensue, and Julian's annual case of the blue devils is...

Lord Julian Caldicott has been tasked with discovering who wants the Marquess of Dalhousie dead. Two attempts have already been made on Dalhousie's life, and the evidence Julian uncovers casts suspicion on members of the marquess's own family. The dashing heir presumptive to the...

Award-winning authors Win Blevins and Meredith Blevins deliver a gripping historical mystery set in the untamed beauty of Monument Valley, where the past refuses to stay buried. Fresh from World War II, Seaman Yazzie Goldman returns home to his family's struggling trading post. While...

Set sail for a thrilling adventure with Margery Allingham's "Black'erchief Dick," a captivating historical mystery steeped in the maritime history of Mersea Island, England. This classic sea story, now meticulously prepared for print republication, plunges readers into a world of intrigue and suspense. Experience...

Countess-turned-advice columnist Amelia Amesbury has a wedding to plan alongside a new murder in this charmingly deadly historical mystery. Countess Amelia Amesbury has her work cut out. As well as balancing her alter ego--secret advice columnist, Lady Agony--and the blackmailer threatening to reveal her...

Bach is back and investigating another musical mystery!In this second novel in the Bach Musical Mystery series, award-winning historical novelist James Y. Bartlett has taken the real-life incident that Bach scholars call 'the Prefect Affair' and kicked it up a few notches into a...

Join the Rat Pack in this stylish crime-thriller novel that showcases the glitz, glamor, and grime of Las Vegas' early years from the author who captures the atmosphere of Sin City's heyday like no other! It's 1960, and Frank Sinatra, the king of showbiz,...

Author: Harold SchechterISBN-10: 0345448413ISBN-13: 9780345448415Publisher: Ballantine BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/03/2004Pages: 308Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.24lbsSize: 9.56h x 6.10w x 1.12dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 05/31/2004 pg. 54Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2004 pg. 556Library Journal 07/01/2004 pg. 63

Author: Paul DohertyISBN-10: 1035407396ISBN-13: 9781035407392Publisher: HeadlineLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/25/2025Pages: 368Format: PaperbackSize: 7.80h x 5.08w x 0.92d

Murder in the Merchant's Hall is the second in the three-book Mistress Jaffrey Mystery Series set in England in the early 1580s. Rosamond, the estranged foster daughter of Susanna, Lady Appleton (the sleuth in Kathy Lynn Emerson's Face Down Mystery series) is grown up...

Collector's Edition Laminated Hardback with Jacket Beneath the glittering facade of wealth and beauty, Lady Audley hides a secret that could destroy everything she's built. When a charming governess vanishes without a trace and whispers of scandal emerge, suspicions cast a shadow over her...

It is 1910. Halley's Comet is coming. Harry Houdini is in Australia for the first time. The most celebrated escape artist in the world has sold-out seasons in both Melbourne and Sydney. Houdini has a new obsession: aviation. He has brought with him from...