Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

Will another murder turn amateur sleuth Arabella Stewart's long-awaited wedding into an uncertain ceremony? She and her betrothed are determined to crack the case ahead of their nuptials, but can they? Excitement is in the air as Bella and her best friend prepare for...

What happens when a teacher from a girls' boarding school near Ballantyne resort is late getting back from vacation? Arabella Stewart is asked to substitute, but she finds the position involves more than lesson planning. Her sleuthing skills are needed, especially after the school...

Several months after arriving home from her service as a United States Army Signal Corps operator in the Great War, Arabella Stewart is focused on saving her family's resort. The first day of the season starts with excitement and anticipation but ends with a...

Arabella Stewart, grieving the losses of her parents and brother, returns home from serving as an operator in the Great War to find Ballantyne, her family resort, and Moreley, her small hometown in precarious positions. Another impediment arises when she discovers the body of...

Author: Andrew GlennISBN-10: 1664155236ISBN-13: 9781664155237Publisher: Xlibris UsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/12/2021Pages: 326Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73d

'Just find it.'These are the words which Rufus of Tilneye cannot get out of his head. Words which become ever more significant as he sets out from Wisbech Castle on a quest he wants no part in.The year is 1216 and Rufus is travelling...

The friendship between Lena Kaiser, a sodbuster's daughter, and Gustie Roemer, an educated Easterner, is unlikely in any other circumstance but post-frontier Charity, South Dakota. Gustie is considered an outsider, and Lena is too proud to share her problems (which include a hard-drinking husband)...

The Art of Sherlock Holmes-USA Edition 1 is truly unique. While there have been literally hundreds of Holmes pastiches written (even a few of mine), before our first volume, The Art of Sherlock Homes-West Palm Beach, there had never been a volume where Holmes...

Emile Gaboriau, who was Paul F val's secretary, penned these two masterpieces of early detective novels in 1867: The Orcival Murder: Poachers discover the lifeless body of Countess of Tremorel in the woods near her castle. Her home has been ransacked and her husband...

ABU-TABAH... ...professes himself a master magician, who has struck up an association with Kernaby, an Englishman of limited scruples... Abu-Tabah proves himself to be a master of manipulation as well as magic as he influences people and situations to achieve his mysterious goals. The...

A killer is reenacting the deaths of Hollywood's blond bombshells, and Valentino must stop him before it's too late in Loren D. Estleman's Brazen. UCLA film archivist and sometime film detective Valentino doesn't take friend and former actress Beata Limerick very seriously when she...

Orlando Edison is a stockbroker using London's infatuation with foreign mining ventures to make a fortune. He has curried favor with the nation's most respected aristocrats, even inviting three influential investors--known as the Merry Gentlemen--to be part of his latest enterprise. Edison is welcomed...

When the affluent Lintons of Lenox Hill summon Sarah Brandt to examine their teenage daughter, their worst fear is confirmed: she is with child. The pregnancy is a mystery, however, as the young woman--mentally still a child herself--is never left on her own and...

Everyone in Sawrey likes Ben Hornby. So when Beatrix finds the shepherd dead in the meadow and suspects foul play, she wonders who would have done such a thing. A trio of village cats has an idea: When Ben breathed his last, his sheep...

Turn-of-the-century New York City midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Molloy are thrust into a twisted case of murder--when a seductress falls victim to her own charades.Author: Victoria ThompsonISBN-10: 0425184307ISBN-13: 9780425184301Publisher: Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/02/2002Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 6.76h x 4.52w x...

Lambda Award Winner Speakers of the Dead is a mystery novel centering around the investigative exploits of a young Walt Whitman, in which the reporter-cum-poet navigates the seedy underbelly of New York City's body-snatching industry in an attempt to exonerate his friend of a...

Two murders in Chelsea plague amateur detective Queen Elizabeth II in the fourth book in the charming series, perfect for fans of Rhys Bowen and Jacqueline Winspear. 1957, England. Young Queen Elizabeth II is finding her way in postwar Europe, trying to repair friendships...

An arch, out-of-the-box debut historical crime caper for fans of Phryne Fisher. A centuries-old curse, a house of secrets and a young woman determined to find out the truth. Sydney, 1930: In a well-heeled corner of Paddington, just a short distance from the razor...

Dom Reilly is back. In this follow up to Year of the Rat, Dom helps clear three men wrongly convicted of rape while also following a pet project-the twenty-year-old case of a man accused of killing his lover in 1976. Meanwhile, Dom gets wind...

According to legend, Sacajawea--the Native American woman who helped guide the Lewis and Clark expedition through the American wilderness--is buried on the Wind River Reservation. Now, a college professor--and longtime friend of Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden--has disappeared while seeking the truth behind the legend.Vicky...

Spies, secrets and suspicious circumstances: Friar-sleuth Brother Athelstan races against time to solve impossible crimes and uncover a traitor in this gripping historical mystery set in medieval London. London. March, 1382. Deep in the shadows, a clandestine organization known as the Secret Chancery operates...

Physician-sleuth Dr Gabriel Taverner has to face his greatest challenge yet - a serious danger from the East threatens not just his life, but everyone he loves! All aboard this adventurous historical mystery set in the early seventeenth century. March, 1605. Country doctor and...

Author: Allison MontclairISBN-10: 1250388430ISBN-13: 9781250388438Publisher: Minotaur BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/26/2022Pages: 324Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.73d

In a college dorm in the late Seventies, seven hallmates hold a funeral for a pet hamster, only to stumble upon a body ...Startled but not exactly sorrowful at finding their unpopular dorm preceptor slumped atop a garbage can in the trash room, Keith...

Within the poorly illuminated passageways of Downhill, murmurs of a sorrowful history reverberate across the corridors. Victoria John, a resolute and ambitious domestic worker, arrives at the enigmatic property in search of comfort from her own haunting recollections. Unbeknownst to her, the downhill area...

In this gripping and electric novel, the grim horrors of Nazis in America collides with the manufacturing of the suburban dream--by a brilliant new voice in crime fiction. On a fall night in 1954, in working-class Lindenhurst, Long Island, a woman goes alone to...

A dynasty is at stake.It seemed like a straightforward request-and Helena is used to her sister Blanche making demands on her time and fortune.But the most ambitious of her sisters reveals a dilemma that may wipe out the title she holds. When tragedy strikes,...

August 1144. Osbern de Lench is known far and wide as a hard master, whose temper is perpetually frayed. After his daily ride to survey his land, his horse returns to the hall riderless, and the lifeless body of the lord is found soon...

A bloodstained room, a missing woman, a passionate affair gone wrong.September in London, and the city basks in a glorious Indian summer. Sherlock Holmes has more work than he can handle, and when the Home Office asks him to sniff out a plot by...

In the inner sanctum of an elite 1960's boarding school, boys test their boundaries and class when they welcome an outsider.One New England boys' boarding school, a bastion of the WASP aristocracy, has been holding out stubbornly against pressure to diversify. Grudgingly, St. Philip's...

What do you do if the bad guys in your life grab you to get back a priceless diamond--which, by the way, you don't have--and they're willing to kidnap, torture, and/or kill to obtain it? After you make your escape, you help devise--with the...

Juliet Sinclair must unmask a murderer before her own false identity is revealed... Clarendon Estate, the country home of Sir Horace and Lady Celia Leith, has been a refuge for Juliet Sinclair after the traumatic events of Bath. It may also be the home...

The Art of Sherlock Holmes is a totally unique experience. Imagine a dozen or more of the finest artists in the U.S. creating art for some the best new short stories written by some of the finest Holmes authors in the world. Each artist...

It is Easter in the mountain village of San Blas in the territory of New Mexico shortly after the Mexican War. The secret auto-flagellant society of Penitentes is conducting its annual faux crucifixion ceremony. Six armed men, "gringos," invade the village and the religious...

Cambridge 1354. Christmas approaches and the town is gripped by the worst blizzards in living memory. As the physician, Matthew Bartholomew, struggles to help the poorer citizens cope with freezing temperatures, his colleagues prepare for the festivities. The weather has trapped many travellers in...

One morning legendary wit Dorothy Parker discovers someone under Manhattan's famed Algonquin Round Table. A little early for a passed out drunk, isn't it? But he's not dead drunk, just dead. When a charming writer from Mississippi named Billy Faulkner becomes a suspect in...

Author: Dawn CarrISBN-13: 9798894010250Publisher: Dawn CarrLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/05/2024Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.51d

Author: Imogen RobertsonISBN-10: 0143123319ISBN-13: 9780143123316Publisher: Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/04/2013Pages: 386Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.90d

Radio legend Jim French was already well known for producing excellent radio dramas, as well as creating Imagination Theatre and its "Movies for your mind" when, in March 1998, the first episode of The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was broadcast, with adventures steeped...

When Ingrid flees a violent husband to become a housekeeper in the Scottish Highlands, she discovers the family she works for has a much darker history than her own.Who haunts Strathbairn? Why are the adult McCleod children at each other's throats? And why does...

Should one change the past lives of historical people? Hardly. The problem is well understood to be a butterfly effect. However, can past historical personalities change lives in the present? Mickey and Loni Peronne need to find the answer to that question ... immediately.Reeling...

Tea and cake at The Ritz, a stolen pearl necklace and a missing dead body... Lady Swift is back on the case!Lady Eleanor Swift has been eagerly awaiting her trip in a hot air balloon to take in London's amazing sights. But what she...

A gigantic bird returns from extinction.Birds in Mumbai wearing jewels from a medieval kingdom.A medieval kingdom that mysteriously collapsed 300 years ago.When a giant bird, long thought to be extinct, makes a surprise visit to Mumbai, all hell breaks loose. Nobody has a clue...

Author: Kimberly MullinsISBN-13: 9798218431440Publisher: Jkj Books, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/06/2024Pages: 286Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.60d

The year is 1900, and newly crowned US Open Champion, Harry Vardon makes his way to Denver, Colorado. While he works promoting the game of golf, he also aims to bring slasher Jack the Ripper to justice.After the 1900 US Open Championship, the newly...

1931. As Thomas Edison was dying, he left test tubes of what he believed would be his final breath, until it was. His intent was to leave his "last breath," for his prot?g?, friend, and confidant, Henry Ford. But forty-two tubes were lost after...

Simon Westow, the city's unwavering thief-taker, must confront betrayal, history and murder in this gritty page-turner set in nineteenth-century Leeds.Leeds, May 1825. Thief-taker Simon Westow is hired by Sir Robert Foley to find four silver cups stolen by his servant. The cups are a...

Jacquie Pham's transportive debut, Those Opulent Days, delivers a classic historical murder mystery centered around the glamor, violence, wealth, and opium of 1920's French-colonial Vietnam that meshes the structural brilliance of Lucy Foley's The Guest List with the historical vitality of Vanessa Chan's The...

Acclaimed "True Crime" detective Nathan Heller, whose cases have sold more than 1 million copies, returns to uncover the secrets behind Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 assassination in this brand-new novel from bestselling ROAD TO PERDITION author Max Allan Collins. A HELL OF A FINALE...

Author: Kimberly MullinsISBN-13: 9798988608097Publisher: Jkj Books, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/06/2024Pages: 286Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.02lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d