Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

Sherlock Holmes - The Case of the Lost Melody - YASİN GÜNEŞA melody has gone missing in the fog-wrapped arteries of Victorian London - and where a song disappears, memory, motive and murder often follow. When a silent music box and a pressed carnation...

Plowman's PlightAn outlaw plowman falsely accused of murderAn alchemist's virgin who is more than she seemsA fiendish murderer hiding in open sightCathar country, (now) southern France, year: 1200.When the woodcutter's only daughter is murdered, the bailiff tries to arrest Bertwoin the Plowman, who flees...

Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson are asked to investigate mysterious hauntings that are taking place at a waxworks museum. The owner of the museum, Mr Chamberlain, has received reports of objects moving on their own, eerie sounds echoing through the walls, and ghostly...

Discover a BRAND NEW page-turning cosy mystery series from Michelle Salter A murdered suffragette. A missing politician. A stolen artwork. London, 1910 Coral Fairbanks is a contradiction. As well as a suffragette, she's a bit-part actress and nude model, earning her the disapproval of...

In the shadows of the House Nassau, secrets hide in plain sight! In June 1920, sixteen-year-old Michael Nassau's life transforms as his father, Robert, inherits the title of Earl Nassau and the grand House Nassau. But beneath the palace's opulent façade, a dark plot...

How does it feel to be cursed in love? Honora Favre of Paris and Normandy, France was beginning to think she was born that way. The world was living through the darkest days of the 2020 pandemic. It was killing millions. Twice, destiny pulls...

Early November 1963 provides no indication of the tragic events set to unfold. For Washington Post political reporter James Kane, a man who has dedicated his life to digging for the truth, there is no reason to suspect that the secretive leads he is...

Shadowboxing with the Devil In 1978, Detective Lieutenant Bobby Richards takes his family on an outing to the San Francisco Headlands, where his sons briefly go missing. He soon finds them near a wildly painted VW bus, totally mesmerized by strangers whose appearance easily...

She's on the rise to fame and fortune, but her sudden notoriety comes with some deadly consequences. The Wild West Show's dazzling arenas have never witnessed a sharpshooter like Annie Oakley. As she gains renown, aspirations of saving her family's farm seem within reach....

Determined to prove herself in the world of academia, Adelia Grey finds herself stuck at the cusp of greatness. Relationships, ambition, and a centuries old family secret only make her journey more difficult. Throughout her life, Adelia has found herself drawn to the story...

A lavish weekend party, a practical joke that goes murderously wrong, and stolen state secrets all transpire in The Seven Dials Mystery, by Agatha Christie. Full of her usual sly wit this clever murder mystery is a classic detective story featuring some of the...

In the realm of classical music, few works possess the intrigue and fascination of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem. Its haunting melodies and enigmatic history have captivated audiences and scholars alike for centuries. From the moment it first echoed through the halls of Vienna's churches...

Murder in the Queen's Wardrobe is the first in the three-book Mistress Jaffrey Mystery Series, set in the early 1580s in England and Muscovy. It's a spinoff from Kathy Lynn Emerson's Face Down Mysteries. Rosamond, estranged foster daughter of Susanna, Lady Appleton (the sleuth...

What secrets lie in the ledgers of the Royal Government Bank?After Harry Paterson is summoned to London following his father's murder, he finds out that the late Lord Elliot Paterson had discovered hidden information dated all the way back to 1936... and a vast...

Something mysterious and scary is loose in the British Museum, and a rapid solution is needed. Something connects the events to malevolent forces that menaces realm beyond our own... and all mankind.Only one man has the power to defeat this fearsome threat, so the...

The Riddle of the SandsThe Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service is a 1903 novel by Erskine Childers. The book, which enjoyed immense popularity in the years before World War I, is an early example of the espionage novel and was...

An old and dilapidated inn in upstate New York provides the setting for this gothic mystery involving two couples in eighteenth-century Revolutionary America. Told through the diary entries of an innkeeper named Mrs. Truax, this chilling tale concerns Edwin Urquhart, who arrives with his...

Strange indeed is human nature The Valley of Four The Fourth Adventure written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to feature Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson. From the annals of Dr Watson comes this dark case for Sherlock Holmes' and one of his early...

England, September 1926An engagement party at venerable Marsden Manor serves up annoyances big and small for Bright Young Thing Philippa Darling and her cousins, Christopher and Francis Astley. There's the scheming Lady Laetitia Marsden, now engaged to Christopher's and Francis's cousin (and Pippa's personal...

In the late summer of 1817, sailors spot what they think is a sea monster swimming off the New England coast. As reports suggest that the monster is working its way south, the Superintendent of Patents assigns his chief clerk, Cassius Lightner, to help...

Summer 1206. Before it was renamed, Bury St Edmunds was known as Bedricksworth after the ancient family who lived there. Now the last surviving member of the Bedrick clan, Arnulf, wants an heir to carry on the family name. Marrying for a fifth time,...

"The author weaves the narrative thread between serious and funny ably and offers a compelling 19th-century mystery plot as well." - Kirkus Reviews Cassius Lightner, Chief Clerk of the tiny US Patent Office, and his unconventional English fiancée, Amanda Crofton, return in a sequel...

In 1815, a Vermont businessman ships a giant cheese to Washington, D.C. to honor America's greatest military hero, Tennessee's General Andrew Jackson. The cheese vanishes. The government receives a ransom note. Payment isn't an option. If news of the cheese's disappearance becomes public, north...

In a riveting new novel in a Victorian-set mystery series brimming with authentic atmosphere, Dr. Julia Lewis, Scotland Yard's first female medical examiner, and her partner, Detective Inspector Richard Tennant, investigate a string of murders in the art world. London, 1867: Among the genteel...

A surprise inheritance. A hidden past.Brisbane, 2024 Barista and budding artist Mia Curtis is shocked to receive a package all the way from England informing her she's the heir to her late grandmother's cottage. Feeling lost in her own life, Mia travels across the...

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...

For the twentieth anniversary of the start of the Matthew Bartholomew series, Sphere is delighted to reissue all of the medieval monk's cases with beautiful new series-style covers. ------------------------------------ The winter of 1353 has been appallingly wet, there is a fever outbreak amongst the...

Fame is a dangerous game. As her brother lies in a coma after a near-fatal car accident, twenty-two-year-old Grace Brighton climbs the Hollywood Sign to make a desperate wish for his recovery. She loses her footing and plummets to the ground below--only there is...

Libertus accepts a contract to install a pavement for Genialis, a self-important citizen from a nearby town, in the house of the customer's intended but unwilling and young bride, Silvia. However, the winter is exceptionally severe, and although the mosaic is laid in time...

A compelling new mystery for Libertus, set against the backdrop of the Roman Empire in turmoil and fighting for its survival . . . Libertus is passing the villa of his patron, Marcus Septimus Aurelius, when he sees an elaborate travelling carriage which has...

Author: Glenn CooperISBN-13: 9798992574531Publisher: Lascaux MediaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/19/2025Pages: 312Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d

Author: Deb MarloweISBN-10: 1969349255ISBN-13: 9781969349256Publisher: Dragonblade Publishing, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 10/16/2025Pages: 242Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.51d

Author: Ray WellingISBN-10: 1958861782ISBN-13: 9781958861783Publisher: Sager Group LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/09/2025Pages: 358Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.24lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.94d

Author: Anita DavisonISBN-10: 1836783531ISBN-13: 9781836783534Publisher: Boldwood Books LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/26/2025Pages: 226Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

Discover the first in a BRAND NEW gripping Tudor mystery from bestselling author John Pilkington. Perfect for fans of Andrew Taylor and S J Parris. 1594, Bishopsgate Ward, London. Within the walls and without, unease and uncertainty lurk beneath the noise and bustle of...

Murder is so theatrical...Lady Ginger Gold and her husband Basil head to the countryside for a weekend of elegance and art at the estate of Lady Horatia Zouch-Nettleby. But beneath the glamour of a masked ball and private auction swirl whispers of blackmail, betrayal-and...

Brimming with intrigue, the latest novel in this charming Jane Austen-inspired mystery series finds resourceful Rosalind Thorne--a discreet sleuth for Regency London's ladies of ton--facing her most perilous, and awkward, predicament yet... Rosalind is newly, happily engaged to ex-Bow Street officer Adam Harkness, but...

This ten-book collection brings together a series of intriguing Victorian mysteries featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson. From a missing portrait to a magician's impossible disappearance, each case presents Holmes with a unique puzzle to solve. As they navigate London's dark alleys and...

Given Sherlock Holmes' protracted sojourn in Tibet, is it any surprise that he was aware of Tantric sexuality, enabling him to reconstruct a mystery scarcely publishable at the time ('The Treasure of the Black Taj')? Or that its sequel should have involved him in...

An Anglo-Saxon princess in the Scottish court...Newly crowned Margaret knows exile, estrangement and terror all too well. When William the Conqueror invaded England in 1066, Margaret and her family fled to Scotland, where she was hurriedly wed to Malcolm, King of the Scots. She'd...

There is no honor among thieves. We've all heard the phrase. But this is not always so...Stephen Hue was a bandit in the wild days of the 1830s American West, preying along Mississippi's Natchez Trace. Now he is an old man, but he holds...

THIS IS THE LARGE PRINT VERSIONA missing heir. An out of sorts duchess. A Season in High Society that just became far more interesting...London, 1891. With the gossip broadsheet The Society Page speculating that her husband is getting far too cosy with their female...

She's content with her life...Miss Eugenia Chapelle was born on the wrong side of the blanket. After her mother was disowned and fled to London, she pretended to be the widow of a French aristocrat to draw customers as a modiste. After her mother's...

"Poignant and funny, studded with characters who haunt your imagination long after you've read the final page." -Anne Hillerman, New York Times bestselling author of Cave of BonesWhen everyone would prefer to look the other way, can one man cut through fear and prejudice...

J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Agatha Christie, and other literary legends join forces to unravel a deadly conspiracy in this gripping mystery that sweeps from the halls of Oxford to the streets of London and the shores of Loch Ness. In the streets of 1936...

Murder takes center stage! 1885. Arabella Pryce is struggling with heartbreak. In keeping with her late husband's final wishes, she must leave behind her dazzling celebrity and breathe new life into their namesake hotel in Colorado. But when a beloved town beauty is found...

DISCOVER THIS SIZZLING SERIES OF COZY MYSTERIES SET IN THE SWEEPING LANDSCAPE OF NORFOLK Who Killed Ethan? Ethan Baldwin hangs from a tree in woods just outside the quiet Norfolk village of Stanton Parva. The police think the respected church warden committed suicide. Ant...

When a trench becomes a grave, two unlikely sleuths unearth a killer's secrets. When an argument turns deadly in the peaceful village of Stanton Parva, the police are quick are quick to declare it an accident. But landowner Anthony Stanton and headteacher Lyn Blackthorn...

This dazzling new Victorian mystery from USA Today bestselling author Karen Odden introduces readers to Nell Hallam, a determined young pianist who stumbles upon the operations of a notorious--and deadly--crime ring while illicitly working as the piano player in a Soho music hall. Perfect...

Imagine a murder mystery that involves one of rock 'n' roll's greatest artists. Imagine Murder has John Lennon and Yoko Ono solving a mystery set in the spring of 1972.This fun, gripping crime novel imagines (pun intended) a situation in which John Lennon and...