Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

For nearly six hundred years, one of the world's most mysterious books has defied explanation.Known as the Voynich Manuscript, the strange illustrated manuscript now housed in a library at one of our nation's oldest universities is written in a language no one has ever...

In the latest in the New York Times bestselling series from Rhys Bowen and Clare Broyles, retired detective Molly Murphy Sullivan investigates the disappearance of a female scientistNew York is busier than ever as two million visitors come to the city to witness the...

Tom Bracken was a good detective in Chicago. Good enough to know that if you're going to make enemies, you should do it spectacularly well or not at all.Which is how, in the winter of 1883, he finds himself exiled to Cypress Run, Florida:...

Four canonical Sherlock Holmes Stories A Flash in the Pan The Case of the Maltese Catacombs A Gentlemanly Wager The Case of the Little Washer Woman Meikle's authorial voice is a thing of wonder as you find yourself drawn into the story and racing...

A pathologist, haunted by his service during WWI, investigates two murders in post-war London in this Bloody Scotland Debut Prize winner. Death is a lonely business . . . No one who meets Dr. Jack Cuthbert forgets him. Tall, urbane, and brilliant, the Scottish...

**THE GHOST PATTERN***Royce L. McKnight*McKnight Future Press Fiction / Techno-ThrillerThree people are dead. The crime scenes are clean. The systems say nothing happened.A journalist dies in a self-driving car on a route she never programmed. A defense attorney is found dead inside a locked...

Detroit, 1962. A union secretary is found hanging in his office. The department calls it suicide.Detective John Braun calls it murder - because dead men don't fight the rope, and nobody stood on that chair.Two years after exposing eight corrupt officers, Braun is radioactive...

Artemis Bookbinder, a lifelong germophobe and a quirky academic, has an obsession for a still unsolved case: the robbery of the Gardner Museum in Boston. Artemis and his son, Silas, investigate an organized crime family, the US military, and an all too powerful TV...

Detroit, 1965. Seventeen For Sale signs in a dead man's station wagon. A vacant house on a block where the neighbors are selling scared and buying desperate.Detective John Braun knows the murder is the least of the crimes. The investigation uncovers an institutional machine...

Detroit, 1964. A man is shot dead forty feet from the Masonic Temple with a brass key in his pocket.The key opens a room. The room holds a ledger. The ledger points to the headwaters of a corruption network that detective John Braun has...

A proposal to die for . . . British widow Emma Blackstone gets mixed up in murder once again in this stunning 1920s historical mystery featuring New York high society, mobsters, and silent-movie stars! November, 1924. Beautiful silent-movie star Camille de la Rose--Kitty, to...

At the grand English estate of Chimneys, a harmless prank turns deadly. Gerry Wade's friends plant eight alarm clocks in his bedroom to cure his oversleeping; by morning he is dead, and only seven clocks stand in a neat row on the mantelpiece. The...

In this 1930 collection of twelve short stories, Mr. Satterthwaite-a quiet observer of society-keeps stumbling into puzzles that refuse to stay buried.At the turning point of each case, a stranger named Harley Quin appears, asks a few simple questions, and then slips away. Old...

When masked men storm a charity dinner for the Metropolitan and City Police Orphanage, Leonora Spencer and Detective Inspector Jasper Reid are among the many guests forced to witness the pandemonium--and a brutal murder. Although she is shaken by the apparent robbery gone wrong,...

This is the second volume of Shamley's epic five volume poetic novel, wherein the Chinese move to take over Hong Kong in April 1968. From the assassination of Martin Luther King that sparked riots in the streets of Chicago, to the playful dreams and...

Recently engaged Jane Wunderly is celebrating Christmas with her fiancé at his ancestral home at the quaint English market town of Barnard Castle--where murder is the new family tradition ...Northern England, 1926: Surprised by her eager acceptance of Redvers' proposal, Jane is ready to...

A thrilling historical mystery set in Elizabethan London.London, 1591: Physician Nicholas Shelby returns to lawless Bankside when spymaster Robert Cecil asks him to investigate a mysterious Swiss doctor. Soon, Nicholas and his mistress, apothecary Bianca Merton, are embroiled in a conspiracy that threatens Queen...

Author: Abigail KeamISBN-10: 1953478328ISBN-13: 9781953478320Publisher: Worker Bee PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/27/2026Pages: 308Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.65d

Set in post-WWII Paris, the wife of an American foreign correspondent stumbles on the body of her murdered classmate at culinary school and becomes tangled in a web that stretches from the halls of diplomacy to the city's underworld. Paris, 1949. It's been five...

A missing shipment of weapons for China and the murder of an aspiring scientist kickstart a madcap dash through the world of seances, prizefighting, cutting-edge technology, Holmesian cameos, and many disguises. London, 1924. Judge Cheng Gao Shang has been sent by Sun Yat Sen's...

A nation on edge. A city crawling with gangsters. A plot that could change history forever.Miami, 1933. The nation is in the grip of the Great Depression, and former New York World reporter Alan Priest is struggling to survive as a freelance journalist. His...

It is 1931. Adolf Hitler is less than two years away from becoming the dictator of Germany. But nothing is certain. He is walking a political tightrope. He is maneuvering to court the German upper class, while trying not to disavow the violence of...

Sonny Rojas is twenty feet from famous, rubbing elbows with rock gods like Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix when his number is called. A night jump gone bad results in a devastating injury, followed by bungled surgery and dependence on painkillers. Busted at JFK after a stint working for George Harrison, Sonny...

A middle-aged saddler. An unexpected corpse. A witty old horse with a nose for murder. Sometimes, the best detectives have hooves. Downton Abbey meets Dick Francis in this cozy historical murder mystery.Somerset, December 1903. Everyone in Pelgren Vale is impressed when Miss Harriet Cobb...

The head auctioneer of The Caledonian Market is found dead with no wound, no witness, and only a strange symbol burned into his wrist. Holmes knows the death is murder. He knows the method is deliberate. And he knows that whoever did it is...

Some sins don't stay buried. Some wrongs don't die with the condemned.Deep in the shadow-draped hollows of Cripple Creek, Virginia, a woman named Edith Calloway was tried, condemned, and cast out by her own mountain kin - not for evil, but for knowing too...

When Clara Kane visits Sherlock Holmes, she is not looking for him to solve a crime. There has been no theft, no murder, no threat of either. What she has lost is harder to name: a husband who was, until eighteen months ago, the...

Time After TimeThe more things change, the more they stay the same.No matter what life throws at you, or how much the world changes, human nature has been remarkably consistent throughout the centuries. Driven by love, hate, greed, envy, and, sometimes, completely unfathomable motives,...

A wildly entertaining debut and homage to the classic murder mystery set in post-WWII London where a stranger's arrival at a boarding house sets a deadly chain of events in motion--perfect for fans of Kate Atkinson, Agatha Christie, and Richard Osman.London, 1953. Jimmy Sullivan...

"Behind the Monocle: And Other Stories" is a compelling collection of short fiction by J. S. Fletcher, a prolific master of the British mystery genre. This volume showcases Fletcher's signature style, blending intricate plotting with the refined atmosphere of early 20th-century intrigue. Each story...

A hatchet--a seamstress bludgeoned. An axe--a dead child. A shotgun--a lawyer executed. One day, three murders. Lawrence, Kansas, 1873, reels in shock. Kansas Daily Tribune crime reporter, Mary Fanning, chases the monstrous secrets and sins behind the cold, calculated killings--nothing about them is what...

A man convicted of manslaughter on circumstantial evidence endures years of brutal punishment in a remote prison. When a daring breakout thrusts him into freedom, he finds himself caught between the criminal underworld that shaped him and the reformers who see in him a...

When a respected country gentleman vanishes from a locked room at Arndale Hall, the case appears at first to be a classic puzzle-an impossible disappearance amid the quiet respectability of the English countryside. But as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson probe the ancient house...

This ain't never gonna be your Mama's anthology. Like a sucker punch with a fistful of quarters, these stories will knock you off your feet. From cold freezers to hot fires, the private eyes and tough guys between these covers travel through the blackness...

If you are falsely accused of murder, you have to make the best of it.In 2022, Peter Bodnár's DNA test reveals mysterious relatives. He dives into obsessive research to uncover his family's history.In 1882, a fatal pub fight forces young farmhand Gyuri (George) Bodnár...

A young woman returns home from a trip abroad, a gift from her novelist stepbrother, only to find he has married in her absence. The beautiful and mysterious bride quickly disrupts the peaceful family estate, claiming the best room in the house and showing...

The irresistibly charming and cosy first novel in the bestselling Petticoat Police Mystery series, inspired by the true story of Australia's pioneering policewoman, Kate Cocks 'An outstanding debut - funny, poignant, historically fascinating, and an absorbingly good crime read - The Death of Dora...

A story that will stay with the reader long after the book is closed Europe is at War. Nazi bombers are hammering London. Wendell Willkie is giving Roosevelt a run for his money. In Kansas City, Dorie Lennox and her partner Amos Haddam are...

In the sequel to the acclaimed police procedural THE HAIGHT, Jimmy Spracklin is back in Haight-Ashbury, seeking a killer and protecting his daughter from a murder charge. When the hippie daughter of a local industrialist is found dead and dismembered in Golden Gate Park,...

First published in 1918, Uncle Abner: Master of Mysteries is an anthology of detective stories written by Melville Davisson Post. The popular stories within this collection were serialized in national magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post in the early 20th century.Uncle Abner is...

The scissors are blacksmith worked, crude and blackened. They've always hung there at the door of Treagove. For three-hundred years they have played a part in murders and mysteries surrounding the women of the old house. Who says the tool of justice can't be...

"The whispered revelations that come spilling out of Beulah Hill are like ghostly voices you sometimes hear in the attic--soft, sad and disturbingly urgent." --New York Times Book Review "Breathtaking and thought-provoking." --London Free PressA novel of rare literary distinction--an erotic thriller combined with...

The Return of Sexton Blake, Britain's Adventuring Detective! Britain and Germany are at war and Sexton Blake is in the thick of it As the battle for the Western Front rages, adventuring detective Sexton Blake pits his intellect and physical prowess against the machinations...

Bud Livingston has been teaching and lecturing on Sherlock Holmes for the past 30 years. His monographs have been read aloud in the New York City area but mostly at meetings of The Three Garridebs of Westchester County in New York State and Mrs....

In a city plagued by lies, deceit, and corruption, even miracles are not what they seem.Boston, 1968. On a cold winter morning, Detective Jody Brae drives by an old monastery and sees a crowd out front. A holy apparition has appeared, the image of...

As a young woman in Florence, Diana Savrano's life is a privileged one of elegant balls, handsome suitors and frivolity. But the sudden death of her mother leaves her adrift and abandoned. As she sobs over her mother's casket, another member of the procession...

"Parker's deft evocation of a lost era in Western American history--the life of the mining boom town--and her complex characterization make Leaden Skies an absorbing read."--Stephanie Barron, national bestselling authorIt is summer 1880, and Inez Stannert, one of the partners in the Silver Queen...

Baron Herbert's return from crusade should have been a joyous occasion. Instead, he grows increasingly morose, withdraws from his family, and refuses to share his wife's bed. When his sons begin to die in strange accidents, some ask whether Herbert harbors a dark sin...

"Who would have thought that, of all the real-life characters to have a second life as detectives, Edna Ferber, now largely forgotten as a writer, would emerge as one of the best?" --Booklist STARRED reviewIn 1904, Edna Ferber is a 19-year-old girl reporter for...

The summer of 1919 is over, and on the high prairie, a small army of men, women, and machines moves across the land, bringing in the wheat harvest. Custom threshers, steam engineers, bindlestiffs, cooks, camp followers, and hobos join the tide. Big Wheat is...