Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

Murder in the maze, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and...

In this delightfully witty Victorian romance, a governess spy running away from her past falls for an ex-soldier turned railroad magnate--perfect for fans of Manda Collins and Bridgerton! The utterly charming Emily Leverton has a dark past and is determined to leave it behind...

A legend buried for 2000 years. A race against time to uncover the truth.210 BCE, CHINA. The most powerful emperor China has ever known is on the brink of death. In desperation, he sends his trusted alchemist on a quest for the mythical elixir...

The second book in the Vera and Tolliver series, The Idol of Mombasa finds the invasive and obtrusive British tangled in an uneasy peace with the Sultan of Zanzibar. Much of this new mystery in Alfieri's East Africa series concerns the slave trade. The...

Verity Lark is in a new flap!Bedeviled by Colson Hardwicke's treatment-summarily dumping her via tersely worded message!-Verity Lark is lying awake in her bed seething over his behavior when she hears a floorboard creak. Immediately alert to the presence of a late-night intruder, she...

Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson are asked to investigate mysterious hauntings 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 figures moving...

Aspiring reporter Sophie Strong uncovers deadly secrets lurking in the aisles of a 1912 department store. Will she risk everything in her quest to expose a killer?In 1912 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, aspiring reporter Sophie Strong yearns for a thrilling undercover mission that rivals those of...

London, 1923. Returning from Paris, botanical researcher Saffron Everleigh finds that her former love interest Alexander Ashton's brother, Adrian, is being investigated for murder. A Russian scientist working for the English government has been poisoned and expired in Adrian's train compartment. Alexander asks Saffron...

London, 1923. Returning from Paris, botanical researcher Saffron Everleigh finds that her former love interest Alexander Ashton's brother, Adrian, is being investigated for murder. A Russian scientist working for the English government has been poisoned and expired in Adrian's train compartment. Alexander asks Saffron...

Robin Hood, wanted for the fatal poisoning of Lord William Randal, secretly visits Nottingham to find out what the Sheriff's wife knows about the charge. When he is apprehended and thrown into the dungeons of Nottingham Castle, his friends are spurred to action. Alan...

J. D. Daugherty and Hoolie Smith return in this riveting 1928 mystery. A sadist is preying on young women, especially Native American girls. He murders them and dumps their bodies by two creeks--one near Pawnee and one near Claremore--both named Panther Creek.Hoolie, his family,...

Sherlock Holmes is sent to America to negotiate on behalf of Mycroft while a serial killer has Scotland Yard in a twist. The clock is ticking, and only Sherlock Holmes can piece together the clues to stop the killing spree. With an ocean span...

A famous author and illustrator has died in mysterious circumstances. Phryne Fisher has been asked to investigate and gets a job at the magazine that employed the victim. As the investigation proceeds, Phryne finds herself enmeshed in her colleagues' deceptions and, in the meantime,...

FULL OF EYES is a historical mystery novel that tears away the veil of secrecy surrounding secessionists among antebellum Catholics in the South, including the real-life and notorious third bishop of Charleston, Patrick N. Lynch, slaveowner, polymath, famed orator and writer, leading clerical secessionist,...

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...

What happens when a corpse appears on the side of the road to West Point and just outside the path to an all-female community? General Arnold calls for Dr. Eustis!It is 1780 and the Continental Army led by General George Washington is focused on...

From the Booker-nominated author of Case Study and His Bloody Project comes the next adventure of Inspector Gorski.In the unremarkable French town of Saint-Louis, the troubled Inspector Georges Gorski takes the case of a local woman who has called the to report that she...

Laguna Beach is a paradise, as long as you don't look too close.Lennon Mayfield's returning home after a particularly cold winter, hoping for a new start with her family. But that return is quickly overshadowed by the disappearance of her little sister Page.Once they...

"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a mystery story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been recognized as the first modern detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination". The story opens...

18 festive stories of murder and mystery in the grand tradition of Christmas crime fiction, from the masters of the genre. Including the New York Times bestselling JT Ellison, USA Today bestseller Sam Carrington, Sunday Times bestseller C.L. Taylor, and many more... The award-winning...

A knight is stranded in a strange land, after a storm, invited to stay at a nearby baron's home he soon discovers much to be amiss about his host...Author: Joseph C. ChaputISBN-10: 8223451840ISBN-13: 9798223451846Publisher: Joseph C. ChaputLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/29/2023Pages: 78Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 8.50h x...

Murder's a wild ride! Rosa Reed takes a much needed break from her thriving private investigative work by joining her cousin Clarence and Aunt Louisa for a weekend getaway at the Black Stallion Dude Ranch near Santa Bonita, California. It's the beginning of 1957...

What would you do to keep a secret? Bob Anderson ­­-- local banker, city council member, and now murder victim -- had the goods on a bunch of people in Plains City, Texas. Everybody wants those files; no one can find them. Katy Williams...

Football and the Flag It's Texas in the 1980s. Football is king. A gifted Black high school quarterback says he won't play varsity football because they carry the Confederate flag. The town's reaction stuns Katy Williams, news editor at the local newspaper. And that...

This book is a mystery novel about a young woman named Gabrielle de Bergerac. Set in France, this book follows Gabrielle's journey as she uncovers secrets about her past and navigates the dangerous world of espionage. Full of suspense, romance, and intrigue, Gabrielle de...

Midwest Book Award WinnerCan a good deed turn deadly? You bet!I stopped to save someone in a burning house, became an eyewitness to arson, lost my job, and found my mother stalked by a cold-case killer. To save her, I needed to uncover secrets...

A sweeping tale of old loves and festering hatreds, this story will plunge you into the glittering world of Jazz Age Harlem, from the wealthy salons of its movers and shakers to the crowded tenements of its poor.Years earlier, David McKay, an attorney from...

What happens when Arabella Stewart's sweetheart, Jax Hastings, is blackmailed and framed for murder? Bella must overcome old doubts to keep him out of the electric chair. As the Christmas season approaches, Arabella Stewart feels more festive than she has since before the Great...

Caution: rough waters ahead!Let's sail to America, Desmond suggested. It will be fun, he promised. Except, no matter where Rosemary goes, murder seems to follow, even to the middle of the Atlantic Ocean!The journey was supposed to be part of the adventure, and what...

"The Legends of the Punjabi Warriors" by Roman Sidhu is a riveting historical account of the brave warriors of Punjab who valiantly defended their land and people against invading forces. This book delves into the rich history of Punjab, exploring the origins of the...

Unlikely Friends Unite to Save a Wrongly Accused American Soldier and a Fragile Treaty of Peace in The Historical Mystery, The Paris Deception, from Author David O. Stewart --1919-1920, Paris and Berlin-- In the wake of The Great War, the city of Paris unites...

"The relic is gone!"On her first day working in the Abbey of St. Edmundsbury, Aileen finds herself in the center of it all when a Crusader returning from the Holy Land brings a priceless gift, a piece of the True Cross upon which Jesus...

Jake Greenberg is on his way to Shanghai. He has a new job after years of fighting in World War One and the Russian Civil War. But he is caught up in a bloody gunfight with the Japanese Secret Police. With two new friends---an...

The hunt for the RMS Republic's lost gold continues and is followed by a new string of murders. It is up to homicide detective Jake Tucker to uncover the dark secret hidden at the historic Canoe Place Inn on Long Island and to finally...

Book two in the Inspector Lestrade series It was a puzzle that faced Scotland Yard from its very begin-ning - whose was the limbless body found among the foundations? And in the murderous world of Sholto Lestrade, one question is invariably followed by another...

There was only one way to win the heart of the King of France, and it led straight through sorcery and witchcraft. Fran?oise-Ath?na?s de Rochechouart de Mortemart had to have Louis, King of France, but his other mistresses stood in the way. Then she...

The second volume in the "Atlanta Years" series within the John Jordan Mystery Series. Pick up right where INNOCENT BLOOD left off in this smart, thrilling, mystery that shows John's formative years as a detective.Author: Michael ListerISBN-10: 1888146605ISBN-13: 9781888146608Publisher: Pulpwood PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/03/2016Pages: 266Format:...

When human bones are found in a vat of lye on Steveston's notorious Cannery Row, John Granville is determined to find out why.In a time of frontier brawls and broken dreams, the fishing industry is vital to the survival of the young province and...

What do a woman's freshly burned corpse and a stallion shot dead at a birthday party have in common? They're Captain Equi's first cases in his new post as a homicide detective in Tangier, between the two World Wars. The Italian aristocrat is in...

Summer 1219. A group of nuns from England set out to travel to the south of France in order to found a new convent. Against his better judgement Walter agrees to accompany them to ensure they arrive safely at their destination. But they never...

'This is an historical novel in the grand manner . . . A lot of research must have gone into the work, and the result is wholly satisfactory.' - The Guardian 'The versatile John Blackburn has deserted one kind of horror for quite another,...

HIDDEN MICKEY 4 Wolf Happily Ever After? Volume 1 in a series of action-adventure mysteries about Walt Disney and Disneyland written for Adults, Teens, & Tweens (age 10 & up). Flesch-Kincaid Grade 5.6 - Flesch Reading Ease 79.1 WOLF CROSSES PATHS WITH MERLIN AS...

HIDDEN MICKEY 4.5 Unfinished Business--Wals The 5th book by Nancy Temple Rodrigue in the Hidden Mickey series about Walt Disney and Disneyland written for Adults, Teens, & Tweens (age 10 & up) If you like Kingdom Keepers by Ridley Pearson you will LOVE Hidden...

After surviving the horrors of the Great War, Paul Shenstone works as a police detective in 1920s Toronto. The unusual murder of a prominent industrialist gives him the biggest case of his career and a not entirely welcome opportunity to make his name on...

Ursula's quiet life on her Surrey estate is thrown into chaos by the arrival of a new neighbour in this absorbing Tudor mystery. August, 1582. The queen's spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, has ordered Ursula to keep an eye on her new neighbour, Giles Frost,...

"Mr. Holmes is an amateur, Hopkins." Lestrade was smiling around the stem of his pipe as he spoke. Hopkins could hear it. "Not a man who works well in teams, he. He still trusts Dr. Watson not to lie to him...and Dr. Watson's pulled...

It is 1878, and Dr. Poppy Stamford has reluctantly rekindled her relationship with Sherlock Holmes. Though it has been almost four years since they parted on uneasy terms and he continues to suppress his feelings for her, they are still intrigued and inspired-and frustrated-by...

FALLEN ANGELSummer 1225. Change is in the air. There is a new religious force in the world: the preaching friars. When the first of these arrives in Bury he is greeted with suspicion by some of the monks. What does he want? Why has...

In 1857, there are few settlements on the frontier more dynamic and dangerous than a riverboat community along the Missouri, where honest pioneers and shady hucksters compete to shape and define a township. Into this world comes the well-educated and opinionated Miss Adeline Furlough,...

Brimming with heart-stopping action, The Riddle of the Sands is one the earliest spy novels. This spell-binding story is set in the period before the start of the First World War. A gem of the thriller genre While on a sailing trip in the...