Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

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

♥️ ' . . . an absolute delight . . . these are the perfect reads for a night by the fire' ♥️ Scotsman War is hovering on the horizon, and Dandy Gilver wants nothing more than to keep her friends and family close....

In this adventure in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, husband-and-wife treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo must out-pace a self-made millionaire in pursuit of an incredible fortune... Thousands of years ago, two superpowers of the ancient world went to war, and a...

1897, London. The capital is shocked to learn that the body of a woman has been found at the National Gallery, eviscerated in a manner that recalls all too strongly the exploits of Jack the Ripper. The Museum Detectives Daniel Wilson and Abigail Fenton...

Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge seeks a killer who has eluded Scotland Yard for years in this next installment of the acclaimed New York Times bestselling series.An astonishing tip from a grateful ex-convict seems implausible--but Inspector Ian Rutledge is intrigued and brings it to his...

New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens returns with her favorite sleuths to unravel a tangled web of family secrets and expose a murderer, in this historical novel interweaving mystery and murder with a touch of romance.When Lord Meriwell collapses and dies at his...

When her student goes missing, an independent bluestocking must seek the help of the arrogant duke who spurned her in this sizzling tale of romance and intrigue, perfect for fans of Netflix's Bridgerton series Phoebe Atkinson is what society might call unconventional. Instead of...

Walk the dark halls and threatening streets of 1920s Asheville in this thrilling third installment of The Stephen Robbins Chronicles, as fan-favorite Robbins confronts the dangerous contrast between appearance and reality at the exclusive Grove Park Inn.It's the autumn of 1924, and Benjamin Loftis...

"Sharp eyed and sharp mouthed police detective"* Henri Lefort, is determined to solve homicides and uncover any German conspiracies threatening France--in Mark Pryor's next World War II mystery, The Dark Edge of Night. Winter 1940: With soldiers parading down the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, Nazi...