Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

Book 2 in the Hoarfrost Mystery Series In 1880, before women earned the right to vote the strong ladies of the Pacific Northwest town of Port Summerhill, including Aunt Eloise and Adele, pool their efforts towards women's suffrage despite the ruckus coming from the...

The most terrible criminals...have long memories. Now that the threat of a war between England and France has been foiled by Chief Inspector Malet's initiative and courage, life can flow again like the river that flows through Paris. Malet and Elise are planning their...

The Case of Friulian Hamlet is a a novel of unexpected discoveries and combines a meticulously structured plot with glimpses of incisive and touching thoughts about life, disease and hope.In Friuli, a newly-formed Committee is firmly convinced that Shakespeare drew inspiration from the Trevisan...

REVENGE FROM BEYOND is a gripping detective story set in Ancient China. It has a full cast of personalities and a mixture of motivations: a beautiful widow, an upright but inexperienced magistrate, a disaffected son, an advisor to the Emperor, and an active group...

Jing Yang, his classmate Angelina, and his cousin Tim team up to solve a mystery about hidden treasure in an underground bunker which was built during World War Two. A history dropout from a local university has been searching for the treasure for many...

There is not in all Paris a house better kept or more inviting-looking than No. 23 in Grange Street.Author: Émile GaboriauISBN-10: 9386780089ISBN-13: 9789386780089Publisher: Alpha EditionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/30/2017Pages: 464Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.29lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.03d

The Murder of Delicia, 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...

A chilling puzzle wrapped in velvet manners and steam-lit streets. A sharp mind meets a society of secrets, and every clutched glove and whispered rumour pulls you closer to the truth. Agatha Webb (Book-II) returns with the elegance of gilded age New York and...

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...

Archaeology student Chione has vivid dreams about the discovery of an opulent tomb. After the founder of the Institute of Archaeology learns that Chione's dreams might be connected to events in Egypt, he accepts an offer to examine a mysterious site in the Valley...

Come into the East End of London, 1888. Walk the streets of Whitechapel and slums of Spitalfields, side by side with history's most notorious serial killer.Overhear his plans, and listen - or try not to - to his secret thoughts as he waits in...

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...

As Jane steps from the rubble of her West End home she meets Will, who offers laughter and love in abundance.With the Blitz of London upon them, Will teaches Jane to live for the moment and throw caution aside. He introduces her to his...

Reproduction of the original: The Dorrington Deed-Box by Arthur MorrisonAuthor: Arthur MorrisonISBN-10: 3752445068ISBN-13: 9783752445060Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/16/2020Pages: 136Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

Monsieur Judasx is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition . Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the...

A body clearly shaken, but not stirring... Summer, 1929. Murder isn't on the menu when Chicago tycoon Ransom Warne hosts a dinner party at his country estate. But someone's a victim-and everyone's a suspect-when drinks and desires lead to disaster. Hollywood starlet Lottie Landry...

Doctor Connor is the hero of the Fire & Ice Series: Awakening, Survival, Earth Walker, Heart of Stone, and Invasion. But all nightmares begin somewhere, and for him, it began in 1910, London - when the city was a mad melting pot of trolley...

Doctor Connor is the hero of the Fire & Ice Series: Awakening, Survival, Earth Walker, Heart of Stone, and Invasion. But all nightmares begin somewhere, and for him, it began in 1910, London - when the city was a mad melting pot of trolley...

I wrote this series after reading 'Twilight" and wishing that I knew more about Edward Cullen than Bella. He seemed two dimensional to me, and that was such a shame. After all, we all know what being human feels like, but a vampire? Now,...

Enrico LoTrova always wanted to move to London and open his own bakery. When he finally lands a spot at 9/b High Street in Wimbledon Village, it is a dream come true, but when he thinks his career is about to take off, a...

Enrico LoTrova is finally living his dream and delivering his bread throughout Wimbledon Village. Yet, the peace of the village is about to be crushed by a ghastly discovery near Saint Mary's Church. One that will lead to Lord Awlthorp, the mysterious man in...

In the shadows of a Welsh castle, secrets buried with a lost prince begin to stir. In the wake of Prince Arthur Tudor's death, Wales stands on uneasy ground. King Henry VII rules with a firm hand, but tensions simmer beneath the surface, especially...

In 1884, Camille Canfield arrives in the small gold mining town of Red Gorge, Dakota Territory to deliver tragic news to her childhood friend, Jane Ford who owns and operates The Lucky Seven saloon. When Jane's business partner is murdered, Jane is the prime...

When Sybil takes the stage again, murder plays the leading role. In September 1873, actress and spirit medium Sybil Ingram is looking forward to her new life as the wife of dashing violinist Roderick Brooke. But their plans for marriage are interrupted by a...

The Islamic State has spread its tentacles in India, penetrating stealthily into the academia, media and politics. The mastermind is Shamsur Ali, a physicist from Bangladesh. To destabilize India, he wants to create a sort of apocalypse, which the twenty-year-old Kubha must prevent at...

Holbrook College is a place for second chances. But what happens when the danger you face is worse than the danger you escaped? At first, Audrey Connolly regrets her restless urge to come to a college so far from home, but to her surprise,...

When a series of murders and mutilations of female victims throws the city of San Diego into a panic-stricken frenzy, a citywide task force is put in place to catch the unknown killer, who the police call "the Entity" for his ability to conceal...

"Only the Devil and I know the whereabouts of my treasure, and the one of us who lives the longest should take it all." - BlackbeardFor centuries, Blackbeard's chilling boast has fueled rumors of a hidden hoard known only as the Devil's Treasure. Now,...

Spinning off from his popular CROSSTIME ADVENTURES OF CARTER PAXTON, medievalist Stanley Lombardo presents a scholarly edition of a previously unpublished manuscript by Elizabethan playwright and intelligencer Christopher Marlowe. For the first time in five hundred years, Marlowe speaks in his own voice, detailing...

"a most accomplished work in a league of its own." -Reviewed by K.C. Finn for Readers' FavoriteAn historical thriller of doctors, disease epidemics, murder, and political intrigue...Malcolm Forrester a physician from Edinburgh, and Elspeth MacLeod, a healer from the Isle of Skye, were both...

It's 1950s Illinois and Elliot Caprice has returned to his rural Southville homestead to help his uncle save the family farm, which is struggling through a drought. As racial tensions between agricultural workers rise, a murder pulls Elliot back to Chicago when his ties...

We know what happened in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Well, perhaps not the whole story. The JFK assassination was heartbreaking for most, but to a few, a financial disaster. It didn't go as they had planned. Lee Harvey Oswald and their own hired...

Two tales. One location. Mystery and suspense with a twist.Every place in the American West has a story. Shadows of the men and women who fought to survive the deadly challenges of the Old West remain, some inspiring, some dark, all of them waiting...

It is June, 1947. Jake Weaver, military writer and investigative reporter for William Randolph Hearst's Los Angeles Herald-Express -- in the midst of probing into the possibly criminal activities of Bugsy Siegel -- suddenly finds himself floundering in the murky waters of the LA...

This intriguing detective story introduces DI Ambrose in the first of a series of tales of murder most foul. Foul Play happens in a fog bound theatre with a cast of eccentric actors to keep the reader engaged until the very last page. We...

When a famous close harmony choir visits Chalk Heath, tensions are rife. DI Paul Ambrose feels a sense of foreboding, but is powerless to prevent the murder of one of the singers. Does the choir include a murderer, or is the death connected to...

They're everywhere. Their name is like a talisman that opens all doors and bends all wills. The man who can pronounce that name is master everywhere -- Gentlemen of the night! In 1830 London, the Marquis de Rio Santo, leader of the criminal empire...

The Trial of the Next Century Jason Verne is an All-American Hero. As the first man to set first on Mars after his lone journey into space, he quickly became a familiar figure in every living room. His good-will and human courage won over...

Jean Harris, the pretty Land Army Girl from Kelly's dairy, was enjoying the war. She threw many of the Bexford North men - young and old - into a frenzy of excitement. So when Jean is found brutally murdered, Inspector Bob Peters and his...

Not even the imminent threat of a Japanese invasion can stop the notorious Lady Emily Gascoigne-Ridley from courting disaster - or even death - wherever she goes. When she decides to spend the winter of 1943 in Bexford North, simply to spite her relative,...

Gavin Maxwell Johns was born in Georgia, in the United States, orphaned in Hertfordshire in England and sent to the Fairbridge Farm School in Pinjarra, Western Australia as a child migrant in 1935. At Fairbridge, he meets his aggressive and undisciplined friend, Luke Fitzgerald...

Into a valley deeply divided by war, prejudice and loyalties, arrives Audrey Douglas, a young teacher.It's Januuary 1917 and this her first appointment, to replace all vestiges of German language and culture from the former one teacher school in the Barossa Valley township of...

The body had no name. It was not supposed to be there... Jess is a researcher on a quest to give the one-hundred-year-old skeleton, discovered in the exhumed grave of a prominent bishop, an identity. But she's not sure of her own - her...

In AD180 Quintus Suetonius and his stepson Manius are frumentarii, the Roman Empire's secret police. Dispatched to Britannia on a mission whose purpose is from them they they join forces with the formidable female spy Tita Amatia and find themselves embroiled in plot, counter-plot...

Death on the Downs. A strangled spinster. And a flitch of bacon... The Date is 1207 A harmless contest turns deadly when one of the participants is murdered. Sir Aumary Belvoir, Lord of Durley and warden of Savernake Forest investigates the killing of one...

An elderly French artist is found dead in his rooms in London clutching a miniature portrait of a little girl. Intrigued, Constable Sam Plank delves into the world of art dealing and finds himself navigating the fragile post-war relationship between England and France. What...

The Twist When Luke Salieri inherits a dilapidated English estate from a woman he's never heard of - with quirky Dickensian conditions attached - it's a mystery he wants resolved immediately. But there's a catch: just how far will he have to go to...

A world order crushed mercilessly under the bootheel of a totalitarian fascist dictatorship, presided over by the powerfully manipulative mind of a psychologically deranged, but brilliant criminal genius...Colonels James Bartholomew Bass and Alan Tiberius Blackmore are charged by 'The League of Ghosts' and the...

1569. Europe has closed her doors to English goods. Desperate to find new markets, Queen Elizabeth's head of intelligence sends exiled soldier Matthew Longstaff east to start negotiations with the Ottoman Empire. Accompanied by his wife Aurélie, Longstaff arrives in a city unlike any...

In 18th century Ireland a beautiful young woman was incarcerated for 31years by her obsessively jealous aristocratic husband. When the true extent of his cruelty reached the public domain he became better known as The Wicked Earl but the bitter family fued that followed...