Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

Hollywood, 1939. When film director Orland Orcott is found dead in his locked study, police rule it a suicide. However, movie star Victor Marvel believes otherwise and sets out to investigate, aided by his handsome boyfriend, Griffin, and Eve Spellman, Victor's smart, young costar....

This wry, big-hearted, noir brings 1950s New York to life from the tenements of Hell's Kitchen to the mansions of Riverdale, from Sing Sing to City Hall, with a gripping murder mystery laying bare the explosive conflicts between its big wheels, its working stiffs,...

When second-rate illustrator Ernie MacGuffin's artistic works triple in value following his apparent suicide off the Brooklyn Bridge, Dorothy Parker smells something fishy. Enlisting the help of magician and skeptic Harry Houdini, she goes to a s ance held by MacGuffin's mistress, where Ernie's...

With his customary verve and insight, Terry Roberts' latest novel is an evocative portrait of humankind's capacity for courage, love, and hope as well as folly, and another love ballad to his region of North Carolina. Clinton Salter is the sheriff who never wanted...

In this delightful historical mystery, Phyllida Bright--amateur sleuth and Agatha Christie's esteemed housekeeper--discovers a killer stalking the stages of London's illustrious theaters. Housekeeper Phyllida Bright is quite in her element at Mallowan Hall, the charming English manor that she keeps in tip-top shape. By...

Mothering Pirates is a descendant's story born in history and wrapped in a tale of best friends. River Grey is the third great- granddaughter of the famous pirate Anne Bonny. Her best friend, Lexington O'Malley is the third great-granddaughter of The Pirate Queen of...

At the darkly glamorous height of the Roaring 20s, an independent Black intellectual and her bi-racial foster child are immersed in the vibrant world of the Harlem Renaissance - and a shocking murder on Striver's Row - in this thrilling Jazz Age mystery for...

Author: Natalie BrianneISBN-13: 9798987095386Publisher: Searose PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/16/2024Pages: 294Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.87lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.66d

In the shadow of Nazi-occupied France, a legacy is concealed, waiting silently to be reclaimed.Decades later, Paris art restorer Amelia Beckett is used to peeling back layers of history. But when a seemingly ordinary heirloom lands in her studio, her careful routine is shattered...

In the winter of 1846, after attending a performance of Shakespeare in Detroit, young wife Claire Hinman is found stabbed and bludgeoned in a snowy field. The person behind her death has devised a scheme to implicate Claire's husband, Carl. To avoid arrest, Carl...

"There is a spirit that moves amongst us. They call him the Messenger of Death. And tonight...tonight...he called my name."The Loxworths are a family of clairvoyant mediums. Sitters at their seances are dying. Their deaths predicted by a mysterious entity known as The Messenger...

Step into a world where the boundaries between life, death, and the afterlife blur in "Quantum Resurrection." Detective Jack Spec is thrust into a transformative journey after a fatal attack leaves him and his family in a morgue over Christmas. His soul, trapped in...

A ski holiday with friends at a mountain resort. What could possibly go wrong? It's supposed to be the engaged couple's vacation from sleuthing, instead they are confronted with a murder at the isolated hotel. Aside from their party, the guests are strangers to...

With his customary verve and insight, Terry Roberts' latest novel is an evocative portrait of humankind's capacity for courage, love, and hope as well as folly, and another love ballad to his region of North Carolina. Clinton Salter is the sheriff who never wanted...

Bringing Sherlock Holmes from the Victorian Era into the dark days of World War II, this imaginative new thriller confronts the world's greatest detective with a killer emulating the murders of Jack the Ripper. London, 1942. A killer going by the name of Crimson...

It may be a surprise to those who think of "Minnesota Nice" today, but in the 1920s and '30s, the Twin Cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis were rife with crime and corruption. Criminals from John Dillinger to Ma Barker to Babyface Nelson spent...

On the eve of Sherlock Holmes's retirement Watson pays a final visit to 221b Baker Street. Their quiet conversation is interrupted as other guests drift in and out of the 221b sitting-room... Also included here is the account of a visit made by Holmes...

On the first day of Hexamshire's annual weeklong fair in late summer 1221, Master Gruffydd, an arrogant merchant and town worthy, is poisoned. A wealthy man, Gruffydd has been shamed by his low birth, a condition he could never overcome. By contrast, his wife,...

* The Secret of Monument Valley(Volume 2 in the Florea/Holland Mystery Series)... According to the so-called experts, in about 1450 AD, an exceedingly prosperous generation of Native Americans, known then as the Anasazi, vanished from their strongholds in the American Southwest--disappeared without so much...

In this rousing sequel to The Blackstone Key, Rose Melikan's heroine returns to the world of espionage for an intelligent, thrilling adventure in Georgian England. When the story begins Mary is a wealthy heiress. Young ladies in her situation ought to marry well--as her...

Two grisly murders. A disgraced former mayor. A tranquil town on the verge. This gripping historical crime novel set in the south pulls the past into the present, perfect for fans of Charles Todd and Ann Cleaves. Dave Hendricks was once a respected man...

From the bestselling author of the American in Paris mysteries featuring Julia Child's fictional best friend, and the Phyllida Bright mysteries featuring Agatha Christie's fictional housekeeper, this intriguing mystery stars quick-witted Adam Quinn, President Lincoln's newly hired aide, on a momentous day . ....

From the bestselling author of the American in Paris mysteries featuring Julia Child's fictional best friend, and the Phyllida Bright mysteries featuring Agatha Christie's fictional housekeeper, this spellbinding historical mystery stars Adam Quinn, President Lincoln's clever new aide, amid wartime intrigue . . ....

From the bestselling author of the American in Paris mysteries featuring Julia Child's fictional best friend, and the Phyllida Bright mysteries featuring Agatha Christie's fictional housekeeper, this captivating mystery stars resourceful Adam Quinn, President Lincoln's new aide, as war--and murder--test his skills like never...

The new novel from the author of Art in the Blood. December 1889. Fresh from debunking a "ghostly" hound in Dartmoor, Sherlock Holmes has returned to London, only to find himself the target of a deadly vendetta.A beautiful client arrives with a tale of...

"It was not the dead that seemed to Quirke uncanny but the living."Quirke is a haunted, hard-drinking pathologist stumbling through the brooding gloom of 1950s Dublin. It is a society of secrets and meanness, dominated by a rigid hierarchy--as Quirke is reminded of when...

In the second book of John Banville's masterful Quirke series, a faked suicide ensnares the pathologist in a deadly web of cons and deceit It has been two years since the events of Christine Falls, the bestselling novel that introduced the world to irascible...

Author: D. V. BishopISBN-10: 1529096553ISBN-13: 9781529096552Publisher: Pan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/05/2025Pages: 416Format: Paperback

Gold Town is an historical novel with a female protagonist, set in the gold rush years of late nineteenth century Western Australia. It has elements of mystery and romance, set against the dramatic Australian outback landscape.In 1895, Nora Patterson arrives by stagecoach in the...

The Last Note of Warning is the third in the luscious, mysterious, and queer Nightingale mystery series by Katharine Schellman, set in 1920s New York. Prohibition is a dangerous time to be a working-class woman in New York City. By day, Vivian Kelly is...

WHAT IS THE CONNECTION between a young woman found dead in a church choir loft, an elderly immigrant who died violently after eating lunch, and a TOP SECRET government file? When Tom Hall investigates the death of a Mavis Andersen, the scarce clues he...

A bad decision made by Lee Howard led to the near-fatal stab-wound in his abdomen. He looked like a down and out bum as he staggered from Montevideo's hobo jungle, and it was mere luck that Tom Hall happened by. Lee's only possessions were...

Set in rural Minnesota in 1938, Tom Hall is expecting to retrieve his brother's murdered body, but steps into a wintry intrigue and a series of brutal deaths that will end with one last act of retribution and justice This is a historically based...

The BRAND NEW spellbinding historical novel from bestseller Elena Collins. 'Heartbreaking and hopeful, it's a brilliant read.' Nicola Cornick Now: When Megan's father gets a letter containing a secret from the past, he asks her to go to the Cornish village of St Mawgen...

Quirke returns in the third volume of John Banville's celebrated series A junior doctor at a local hospital, April Latimer is a scandalous presence in the conservative and highly patriarchal society of 1950s Dublin: the independently-minded scion of a well-connected family, she has decidedly...

"An immersive and entertaining read" --Alistair Mabbot, the Herald The year is 1317, and young squire Benedict Russell has joined the English-held garrison of Berwick-upon-Tweed after the spectacular Scottish victory at Bannockburn three years earlier. Serious and self-doubting, he can't wait for his time...

This time, there's no doubt about it: somebody is dead.A mass murderer is on the loose in London, but lady detective Rosemary Lillywhite has bigger problems.With the perfect wedding dress just out of reach, her best friend, Vera, is planning a rushed elopement with...

Murder is for the crows.There's a mass murderer loose on the streets of London, and he's dead set on making Rosemary Lillywhite his next victim. After receiving a second threat, she should have gone straight to her chief inspector beau, Max Whittington, but Rosemary...

Once the glory of Akhenaten's reign, the imperial city of Akhet-Aten now lies tangled in the raveled ends of old plots; wrecked, abandoned and rumored to be cursed.When Commander Khonsu is assigned to escort a royal delegation to the deserted capital to investigate reopening...

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...

A Desperate Ruse reveals that Watson's true motive for writing A Study in Scarlet was a much more urgent one than his stated wish broadcast the talent of his friend. The publication of the journal was p part of a desperate plan - a...

Could the mysterious murder of a British diplomat decide America's role in Word War I? Winter 1917- The Great War has been raging in Europe for two and a half years. The United States has struggled to maintain its neutrality; it's idealistic President longing...

After a duke's betrayal, the resilient Sarah Forrester reinvents herself as society's leading light-the life of the party. It's all a fa ade of course. When an old friend returns to London, he's determined to rediscover the true and trusting Sarah he once knew....

Award-winning author Ray Celestin's The Mobster's Lament is both a gripping crime novel and a vivid, panoramic portrait of 1940s New York as the mob rises to the height of its powers . . .Author: Ray CelestinISBN-10: 1509838961ISBN-13: 9781509838967Publisher: Pan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/19/2020Pages: 576Format:...

It's 1924. Lady Ellen of Ashcombe Hall is on a relaxing hotel break to recuperate. Her nemesis is found dead in the restaurant, face down in his pea and ham soup. Can she confront her past to solve the mystery?Lady Ellen seeks respite in...

When a music critic learns a talented young singer might have been murdered, he delves into the past, only to find peril in the present. For the first time in his life, journalist Jack Fiorello is out of work. The sixty-five-year-old music critic is...

The coalition stormed in from the west, war to be over in days, but no one was shocked, let alone awed. The coalition bogged down in its own lies. All wars are for scarce resources and geopolitical gain, especially wars based on fraud and...

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...

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...

Sheriff Clifford Davidson has spent decades keeping the peace in the quiet town of New Castle, Virginia. But when two bodies are discovered inside an antique trunk in a long-forgotten house, the sleepy town erupts with secrets, danger, and a past that refuses to...