Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

On 25 June 1906, the readers of the daily newspaper LE MATIN discovered this terrifying headline: "SOMEONE IS STEALING CHILDREN IN PARIS! EVERY DAY! On the Grands Boulevards and quiet residential streets! Children have disappeared Boulevard Montmartre, Rue Caumartin, Rue Royale, Rue Racine, Avenue...

Daughter of a detective, Ethel King takes up her father's career in order to avenge his death, as well as that of her fiancé, both brought down the same day by an assassin's bullet. King, like Miss Boston and Therese Arnaud, is an extraordinary...

Paul Davenport, hero of The Templar Succession and The Gettysburg Cypher finds himself once again embroiled in a historical mystery, this time involving lost railways, Confederate Gold and those most immortal words of Abraham Lincoln.When a mysterious man hires Davenport to attend an auction...

Again thanking your readers for their valuable assistance, Yours, etc. One would have imagined that nobody could take this seriously, for it is obvious that the mystery-story is just the one species of story that can not be told impromptu or altered at the...

Originally published in The Strand Magazine, where he was second in popularity only to the legendary Sherlock Holmes, this third collection of short stories features the antihero gentleman cricketer and thief, A.J. Raffles, along with his faithful cohort, Bunny Manders. Stories included: Out of...

Sherlock Holmes British Detective Series - Historical British Murder Mysteries Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson continue to delight readers with this mystery collection of short stories. As Watson relates the crime thrillers you'll find yourself being drawn in and becoming part of the adventures...

Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo (1921) is a thriller by Anglo-French writer William Le Queux. Published at the height of Le Queux's career as a leading author of popular thrillers, Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo is a story of mystery, murder, and international crime. Using his...

How far would YOU go to bring back a lost love? Alchemy is a chilling historical tale of mystery, murder and suspense and reveals an extraordinary decade in the life of a talented, sweet young and innocent genius, as he transforms into a monster....

"Greenwood fans will welcome her thoughtful second reinterpretation of a well-known Greek myth. Among Greenwood's other talents, she displays a gift for writing songs of the period." --Publishers Weekly STARRED reviewIn this, the third and final book in Kerry Greenwood's Delphic Women series, Greenwood...

From Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author, Katherine Webb, The English Girl is perfect for fans of Dinah Jefferies, Kate Morton and Santa Montefiore. In a land full of secrets, you can make your own rules. Joan Seabrook has fulfilled her lifelong dream to...

This mystery novel, set in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the 1940s, involves Nazi spies, suspicious priests, malingering mailmen, and an entire cult of followers of the cowboy star Tom Mix. The action centers around the Ideal Cafe in Price Hill; the protagonist is a mild-mannered...

Paco LeSoto, a dapper detective, and Molly Mesta, a witty housekeeper/cook, team up as an endearing pair of sleuths.They encounter murder and mayhem among the residents of Black Rain Corners, a quaint Maryland town on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay. A million-dollar painting...

BOOK #1 in the Pigeon-toed Horse Mysteries For Collin Mitchell, there is no peace. After a year of fighting renegade Utes, in the Black Hawk War, he returns to Salt Lake City, in the fall of 1868, hoping to forget the killing. Haunted by...

The English Civil War divided loyalties and families. When King Charles II was restored to the throne in 1660, the nation struggled to heal the divide and rebuild a nation after nearly two decades of Civil War. Many had suffered under Cromwell's Commonwealth, lives...

Before his death in 1517, Leonardo DaVinci devised a inspired stratagem to preserve his nude masterwork Monna Vanna from being destroyed by the powerful arch-conservative forces of de l'Inquisition. Five centuries later, American art professor, Dov Markov, embarks on a dangerous search for the...

A deadly game of power and revenge unfolds in ancient Rome.AD 58: Rome is in turmoil. Emperor Nero, obsessed with a new wife, plots to assassinate Empress Claudia Octavia. Vespasian must navigate this treacherous landscape, wary of Nero's new lover, Poppaea Sabina, a dangerous...

In this classic Regency Romance, reminiscent of the work of Jane Austen, Judith Harkness tells the tale of Maggie Trevor, the spirited daughter of a hero of the Napoleonic Wars. With a light touch and witty eye for human foibles, Harkness paints the fashionable...

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 seventeenth chronicle in the Matthew Bartholomew series. In 1358 the fledging college of Michaelhouse in...

The fifteenth chronicle in the Matthew Bartholomew series. There is something very amiss in the finances of Michaelhouse. Despite a new influx of well-heeled students, there is an acute lack of funds for the upkeep of the buildings, even for decent provisions. It is...

1950 - Outback Australia.Silva Latham has grown into adulthood loving Declan Callaghan for as long as she can remember. Secretly she has dreamed for him to see her in the light of a desirable woman, not just the pesky little sister of his best...

Is death the end of one's life?How a ninety-year-old murder couldn't tear their love apart. Birmingham, Alabama 1995While researching architectural design at the Birmingham Public Library, Rachel Montgomery discovers a 1909 newspaper headline that stops her cold. It describes the murder of an unnamed...

A potentially momentous discovery. A suspicious fire. A 50-year-old missing person's case. Are they connected? When Buddy Bolden died in a Louisiana insane asylum in 1931, a quarter century after his reign as the undisputed first "king" of jazz, he left behind no known...

A story about stories within stories, as four interconnected mysteries take the reader through the ages, from Shakespeare's day to a 19th-century Gothic former Priory, to 1920s Venice, and finally to 1940s California, from the internationally bestselling author of The Turnglass. We begin with...

January 1941. When Detective Inspector John Jago is called to a terraced house in London's Bloomsbury district, he finds the body of a woman who has been attacked and left to die - her crime, it seems, being kindness to strangers. Rosemary Webster had...

Author: Steve IsraelISBN-13: 9798998899577Publisher: Compass Rose PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/22/2025Pages: 394Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d

Author: Michael GryboskiISBN-10: 1962561968ISBN-13: 9781962561969Publisher: Little Creek BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2025Pages: 222Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47d

Author: Patricia RiceISBN-10: 1636323367ISBN-13: 9781636323367Publisher: Book View Cafe Publishing CooperativeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2025Pages: 328Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73d

Author: Lady Harriet,Peter StephensonISBN-10: 1964700493ISBN-13: 9781964700496Publisher: Historium PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/18/2025Pages: 248Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

Author: Anita DavisonISBN-10: 183678354XISBN-13: 9781836783541Publisher: Boldwood Books LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/26/2025Pages: 282Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.70d

A widowed academic investigating these strange historical practices gets drawn back in time and into the year 1299 in Oxford. Join a cast of compelling characters-nuns, novices and outsiders-as they battle the forces of darkness. Enter their struggle against evil, clandestine organizations. Join their...

Romeo and Juliet (yes, that Romeo and Juliet) invite you to join them in celebrating the marriage of their elderly daughter, Rosie (she's 20!) to Escalus the younger, prince of Verona. Knives Out meets My Lady Jane meets Taming of the Shrew in Fair...

The owners of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau are back, and more determined than ever to bring love matches to the residents of Post-WWII London . . . so something as trivial as a murder investigation isn't going to stop them! London, 1947. Spirited...

In Nolin Creek, the water runs deep and the secrets run deeper.​In the harsh landscape of a Depression-era Northern Ontario mining town, Finnish immigrant sisters Hanna and Essi Kivi scrape together a living as domestic workers, sharing a room in a disreputable boarding house...

An utterly unique, Victorian-era mystery with a clever play on the famous Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde tale, where the monster becomes the hero, and lines are crossed along the way.Unbeknownst even to himself, the kind, gentle, quietly brilliant Dr. Jekyll has created an...

Intrigue and Danger Dance Hand in Hand in Dancing Angels, a Historical Cozy Mystery from Alice Duncan-1927, Los Angeles, California-The Murray Dance Studio becomes a hotspot for murder when one of its talented dancers, Lucille Murray, is found dead. The once vibrant and glamorous...

In Kansas City on Columbus Day 1931, Deloris Markham, amateur sleuth, discovers the body of Slick Sam Sloan, a grifter, a conman, and a lady's man. His favorite game was the Kansas City Shuffle, but did he go too far? Who stabbed Sam? Was...

Jim Yarrow, a wounded World War II vet, sees his luck change when he finds work as a police officer. He now thrives in his beloved hometown on the Merrimack River. Content with his job, his long-term friendships, and his wife and kids, he...

Mansion of WhispersA Regency Gothic Romance of Secrets, Shadows, and Scandalous LongingWhen spirited Eleanor Ashcroft leaves the sleepy lanes of Oakhaven for the dazzling ballrooms of Mayfair, she hopes for poetry, passion-and perhaps the thrill of scandal. What she doesn't expect is Sebastian Aldridge:...

The gripping new historical mystery from New York Times bestselling author Dana Stabenow. In Cleopatra's Egypt, the clouds of war are on the horizon. Cleopatra, all-powerful ruler of Egypt, has found her most able and trusted agent in Tetisheri, her Eye of Isis. So...

Be careful what you wish for . . . Introducing Hollywood script supervisor Evelyn Galloway, who's drawn into a murder investigation after landing her dream job on the set of Hitchcock's Rebecca. 1939, Los Angeles. Evelyn Galloway can't believe her luck! On her first...

The lure of gold changes people. Greed, suspicion, mistrust; all of it develops from the love of the yellow metal.Reece is a drifter. A man with a past, seeking peace and quiet after the horrors of the War. He finds none of these in...

After millionaire Malcolm Capshaw hires Joe Cutler and his team to search for a fabled artifact, they enter a maze of lies, murder and betrayal. The real purpose of their search is soon exposed, as an old London crime family displays an unusual interest...

Dundee, 1860s. Sergeant George Watters and his team investigate the murder of a local banker, found dead on the 13th tee of a local golf course.Illicit prizefighters, merchants and prostitutes all seem to be somehow connected to the murder, and even the toughest of...

A loyal Southerner embroiled in John Wilkes Booth's plot to kill President Lincoln struggles with a dilemma that is tearing him apart. But should he avenge the South as a hero, or back out as a coward and avoid an unforgiveable sin?We know about...

Ready for a snowy ride aboard the Train Blanc? Murder and mayhem await.November, 1935.With its velvet sofas and bone china teacups, the Train Blanc is a haven of 1930s luxury. But for Ruby and Fina, the trip holds some shocking surprises - not least...

Perry Adams, failed academic turned mailman, suddenly finds himself caught in a web of sex, a million-dollar mail theft, a congressional fraud investigation - and murder. Can Lemuel Penn, a plain Quaker apple grower, rescue him? And can Penn do it without applying some...

Flavia Albia is the adopted daughter of Marcus Didius Falco and Helena Justina. From her mother, she learned how to blend in at all levels of society; from her father, she learned the tricks of their mutual professional trade. But her wits and (frequently)...

Sycamore Mill In 1963 the rural community of Jasper is thriving during a construction boom. Many of the citizens' lives intersect at the Sycamore Glen golf course. The new owner is investing heavily in the course and it is garnering a great deal of...

Part murder mystery, part love story, Saving McNamara is a record of Sarah Costa's search for truth.After her father's death in 1967, Sarah rescues a young army lieutenant from drowning, then leaves Hawaii to study nursing in San Francisco. In a city haunted by...

Russian Spies, Secret Chips, Dead Moon MenOne loan child, with a fear of being lost and a passion to learn, unknowingly travels a path leading to his discovery of secret government technology problems that could destroy the US space program and the lives of...