Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

"A compelling mystery that culminates in a terrifying showdown" --BooklistWhen students of St. Ignatius go missing, painter and amateur sleuth Georgia O'Keeffe must infiltrate the school to figure out what's going on in this thrilling historical mystery set in 1930s New Mexico, from multi-award-winning...

From the pages of the celebrated MX Books of New Sherlock Holmes come eight previously untold stories of Sherlock Holmes and his faithful chronicler Dr Watson. Here you will find stories alluded to by the good doctor but never put into print, such as...

In the thrilling world of sharpshooting, Annie Oakley remains unparalleled. But when royalty beckons, will her skills be enough to untangle a plot dripping with treachery? When Queen Victoria extends an invitation for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show to grace her Golden Jubilee, it...

It seemed like just yesterday...The Holidays ticked away the calendar pages as another number scrolled past the lifespan odometer. The residents of Killington, Vermont sure could use a palate cleanser from last years' excitement. Maybe a European trip abroad. If only they knew.With anticipation,...

Can love conquer the darkness that threatens to consume the holiday season? In John DeGuire's debut novel, "Holiday Spirit," the quaint town of Killington, Vermont, is gripped by a chilling mystery: its children are vanishing. It all starts with a Halloween prank gone horribly...

Murder in a Cornish Alehouse is the third in the three-book Mistress Jaffrey Mystery Series. Rosamond, the estranged foster daughter of Susanna, Lady Appleton (the sleuth in the Face Down Mystery series) is grown up and married to Rob Jaffrey, the son of Lady...

Into the Night and Fog is the first story of a trilogy, followed by The Gypsy of Berlin and The Book Finder. In this historical mystery, it is 1941, wartime Germany, and a German official compels former crime reporter Thomas Rost to find a...

A gripping, wholesome mystery that catches the imagination and never lets go. Detectives, Inc. invites young readers into a world of quick wits, daring, and friendship. Set in an American city at the dawn of the twentieth century, this classic juvenile detective fiction follows...

Reproduction of the original: The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie CollinsAuthor: Wilkie CollinsISBN-10: 3734020034ISBN-13: 9783734020032Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/20/2018Pages: 150Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

Short story master David H. Hendrickson spins six riveting tales of mystery and suspense from eras other than our own. From as recent as thirty years ago (but in a very different culture) to World War II France to ancient times, this collection immerses...

They survived the war - but are they prepared for the fight at home?In the aftermath of the First World War, the Cumbrian village of Waterbeck celebrates the return of its young men. But not all those who fought returned intact... Mercy Appleby, her...

A Case In Three: Three seemingly separate crimes, three detectives. A mysterious stalker is on the loose in London known only as the Goblin Man and his sights are set on a wealthy businessman, David Daniels. A horrific explosion rips through Whitechapel Underground Station...

As far as Alix is concerned, she has no past--only today, and her plans for the future: creating a dynamic stable of Thoroughbreds that will take the 1830s British racing world by storm. When forced into assuming the role of Lord Griffon's wife in...

Northamptonshire, 1810: As a new canal network snakes across the landscape, a vicious mob stakes its claim to the county. Every local constable is out on the hunt for the ruthless Panther Gang. When an elderly man is robbed and murdered in sleepy Middleton,...

Found unconscious on Southwest Oregon's shore in June, 1861, a shipwrecked young Scotsman, Frank Ross, is nursed to health by a rancher Adam MacLean, Adam's Indian wife, Lillie, and their teenaged daughter, Robin. After an aborted attempt to gain ship's passage back to the...

Every family has a secret, hidden just beneath the surface. Coming to terms with the circumstances surrounding her mother's death nothing could possibly prepare Claire for what lies ahead. The discovery of hidden letters, is just the tip of the iceberg . A meeting...

The twentieth chronicle in the Matthew Bartholomew series. In the summer of 1358 the physician Matthew Bartholomew returns to Cambridge to learn that his beloved sister is in mourning after the unexpected death of her husband, Oswald Stanmore. Aware that his son has no...

The nineteenth chronicle in the Matthew Bartholomew series. In the summer of 1358 Matthew Bartholomew finds himself one of a party of Bishop's Commissioners, sent north to investigate the mysterious disappearance of the Abbot of Peterborough. He and his colleagues quickly learn that behind...

A promising series debut with engaging characters, social commentary, and a Victorian twist on the ever popular upstairs-downstairs storyline First in a brand-new Victorian mystery series featuring steward Matthew Rowsley and housekeeper Mrs Faulkner as an engaging detective duo. Newly appointed as land agent...

The death of a local tax-collector spells trouble for Libertus in this compelling historical mystery. Having been inveigled into standing for the local curia, responsible for the submission of all local tax, Libertus discovers that any shortfall must be made good by the councillors...

Eleventh century Cambridge is rocked by a series of brutal murders. Called out to attend a body found on a lonely stretch of river bank, its throat torn out, apprentice healer Lassair is sceptical of the sheriff's verdict that this was the result of...

Secrets never stay buried for long . . . When archaeologist Neil Watson unearths a long-buried mechanical figure in a Dartmoor field, he is determined to discover the truth behind the bizarre find. Soon, however, the sleepy village becomes the focus of press attention...

"You'll never get me up in one of those things. They're absolutely lethal." Seville, 1931. Six months after the loss of the British airship the R101, a German Zeppelin is coming in to land in Southern Spain. Hilary Manningham-Butler is an MI5 operative eking...

Masked balls, duels, and murder: musician, sleuth, and free man of color Benjamin January is caught up in a shocking crime in this gripping nineteenth-century mystery set in New Orleans. February, 1841. It's Carnival season in New Orleans. Free man of color Benjamin January--a...

1923. Diana Gold, owner and impresario, throws open the doors to the most opulent new hotel in London. As the champagne flows and the chandeliers shimmer, millionaires and gamblers rub shoulders with film stars and royalty. Everyone who's anyone is here.Everyone, that is, except...

Masked balls, duels, and murder: musician, sleuth, and free man of color Benjamin January is caught up in a shocking crime in this gripping nineteenth-century mystery set in New Orleans. February, 1841. It's Carnival season in New Orleans. Free man of color Benjamin January--a...

The constable failed to find her husband. Now it's her turn.Nearly two years after her husband's disappearance, and with no more stones left unturned, Elizabeth Whalen has resolved to focus on her apiary and find a way to move forward. After all, it's 1897,...

Fans of the GLASS AND STEELE and THE GLASS LIBRARY series will delight in the new magical historical mystery by USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, C.J. Archer. Set in the years between the two series, the first volume of Professor Gavin...

A puzzling locked room. A Highland snowstorm. And a murder to solve.When a high society hostess is found dead in the locked Thistle Inn, the ancient pub within Augustine Castle's walls, Veronica Vale's weekend celebrating her friend's wedding becomes a deadly trap with no...

The action-packed sequel to the best-selling thriller, The Road to MontepulcianoOn the night of the ninth of June 1944, four days after the Allied liberation of Rome, four nuns are murdered in a railway carriage at the Vatican City railway station.Sixteen years later, returning...

Old Peter Partridge-called Puma for reasons no one could recall-was rumored to have been an Army scout in the Indian wars, and before that, one of those old-time mountain men. Old Puma had been working for the Yellowstone Outfit for seven years, could double...

A lost novella by the long dead Dr. John Watson, this details a story unlike any the world's greatest detective has ever been on before. Many have claimed the Sherlock Holmes has fought Dracula, but the details are often inconsistent and unlikely. However, granted...

THE PARALIPOMENA OF SHERLOCK HOLMESBy I.A. Watson Prolific Holmes enthusiasts and award-winning writer, I.A. Watson returns with seven new Sherlock Holmes mysteries that run the gamut of conceivable plots. From looking for a lost play by William Shakespeare to finding a kidnapped child before...

Behind a veil of betrayal and murder, a family's truth is unearthed.January 1928. Of all times to travel to upstate New York, Alice Cary thought grimly as she hurried into Grand Central Station, it had to be in the teeth of a blizzard. Alice-a...

Progressives' History With A Mystery TwistMarch ends with its usual mix of delight and deluge. Within days, fear buries the delight, and the deluge turns deadly. Suddenly, Sage Adair and his crew must discover and defeat more than one formidable opponent. At stake is...

What you see isn't always as it seems.It's 1884. Emma, with young son Darcy, is now living in the township of Echuca in an idyllic setting on the banks of the Murray while Daniel continues to work the river on the PS Mary B.But...

Progressives' History With a Mystery TwistMarch ends with its usual mix of delight and deluge. Within days, fear buries the delight, and the deluge threatens death. Unexpectedly, Sage Adair and his crew are facing formidable opponents. At stake is the future of their beloved...

What happened in the Bishopgate Jewel case?Holmes solved it. "Very simple reasoning," he said.Yet the cause stretched back decades, when the Sepoys rebelled in India.It involved the 'Bishop' and a buxom barmaid.The crime and the burning quest for revenge continued for years.Back then, not...

"I adore Spotswood's series. . . Start here, then work your way through the earlier books." -Sarah Weinman, The New York Times Wealthy financier and connoisseur of crime, Jessup Quincannon, is dead, and famed detective Lillian Pentecost is under arrest for his murder. Willowjean...

A terrible scream rent the air. "Too late!" Holmes exclaimed, and started running towards the sound. I followed after, my pistol cocked at the ready. Had my dream mysteriously and horribly foreshadowed what was to happen? For here was Holmes again, rushing back towards...

A town paralyzed by fear. Two missing girls. One dark truth.Discover the devastating origin of the Ella Perri Mysteries...Lies That Bind takes you to the time before Buried Secrets. In the seemingly tranquil coastal town of Tropea, Italy, Sal Perri runs a thriving marina...

Who killed the reclusive Agatha Dobbs? Newly married Elizabeth Wilkins is determined to prove Agatha's niece's innocence in this compelling 1920s mystery. October, 1926. Newly married Elizabeth Wilkins is ready for whatever life throws at her and her lawyer husband, Fred. So when Fred...

This time Lady Fan is juggling motherhood with murder! For fans of Georgette Heyer, Mary Balogh, Barbara Erskine and Jane Austen. What do you do when a dead body lands on your doorstep...? 1794, England When a body is unceremoniously dumped outside her home,...

The Fanshawes are back in another twisty mystery! For fans of Georgette Heyer, Mary Balogh, Barbara Erskine and Jane Austen. Who hanged the body in the woods...? 1796, England Heavily pregnant Lady Ottilia Fanshawe should not really be travelling. But when her sister-in-law dies,...

She never misses a target. But unless she can solve this murder, she'll become one... Amidst the bright lights and wonder of the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, darkness descends in the most unexpected places. Beneath the towering Ferris wheel, a man's life is...

Summer in late 14th Century England. The weather may be good, but for some, medieval life is cheap, nasty, and short...In the cathedral city of Draychester, Will Blackburne, adventurer, thief, coin clipper and blasphemer is bound for the gallows. He prays for a reprieve....

August 1920, Dublin, Ireland: A fraught task keeps Verity and her husband Sidney in the country after their initial clandestine mission has been completed: the traitor Lord Ardmore is scheming to employ the deadly phosgene gas he's stolen for some terrifying purpose, and the...

Face Down Below the Banqueting House is book eight in the Face Down mystery series featuring Elizabethan gentlewoman, herbalist, and sleuth, Susanna, Lady Appleton. In 1573, Queen Elizabeth is on a royal progress in Kent and plans to visit Susanna's manor house, Leigh Abbey-an...

Face Down Beside St. Ann's Well is book nine in the Face Down series featuring Susanna, Lady Appleton as a sixteenth-century herbalist who has a knack for solving murders. The story is set in Buxton, Derbyshire in 1575, where a midnight visit to the...

Gold: the elusive prize so many men and women have dreamed of, and for which so many have died.Of all the great treasures, none has been more coveted and sought after than the lost LaDura. In the turbulent twenty-first century, the long-lost Medallion of...