Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

Amongst the scholars, secrets and soporifics of Victorian Oxford, the truth can be a bitter pill to swallow... Jesus College, Oxford, 1881. An undergraduate is found dead at his lodgings and the medical examination reveals some shocking findings. When the young man's guardian blames...

Why should the devil have all the best tunes? 'Themes of inequality, forbidden love and personal responsibility weave through a fast-paced narrative in which the location plays a key part. Nation Cymru The Salvation Army has come prancing and singing from the slums of...

Delving into the stacks and tomes of the British Library collections, Martin Edwards invites you to a course on the darker side of scholarly ambition with an essential reading list of fifteen masterful short stories.With a cohort of writers including Dorothy L. Sayers, Ethel...

Author: Jackie SharpISBN-10: 1999257855ISBN-13: 9781999257859Publisher: Jackie SharpLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/24/2024Pages: 268Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.56d

"Fresh and exciting, with both humor and thrills, Griffiths' first book in her new series knocks it out of the park!"--Shari Lapena Cold cases are a lot easier to solve when you can travel back in time to find new evidence. Unless, that is,...

". . . masterful, evocative, and original." -Georgina Petty, journalist and author of Top Dogs"A wonderful dance in a beautiful hall of mirrors taking the reader through the decades of glamour and war, love and espionage." -Sarah Ingham, PhD, author of The Military CovenantBriggens...

In 1953, two FBI agents are called in to investigate the disappearance of a young White woman in Louisiana. In their pursuit of clues, they stumble across the horrific murder of a Black youth. It soon becomes apparent that the two cases are linked,...

Face Down Across the Western Sea is book seven in the Face Down series featuring sixteenth-century gentlewoman, herbalist, and sleuth, Susanna, Lady Appleton. Long out of print in hardcover, this is the first paperback edition. It has been newly edited by the author. When...

Could Alexander Hamilton be at the center of a vast murder plot engulfing Old New York? As his widow, Eliza, pieces together the puzzle, she unearths a heartbreaking secret that threatens to tear her family apart.Perfect for fans of Sherry Thomas and Deanna Raybourn,...

The Woman in White is a mysterious sensational novel, written by Wilkie Collins, published in 1860. A young art teacher Walter Hartright, meets an entirely white dressed mysterious woman, while he was returning, after meeting his mother and sister. Later, he came to know...

The House of Sin and Splendor so named by triple threat entertainer Betsy Bellweather a vaudeville sensation who became a popular silent film star; one who not only made the successful transition to talkies but dominated them, becoming the top money-maker for famous film...

She can run, but she can't hide. When Evie Parker, Countess of Woodridge, decides to spend a day in London unaccompanied she has no idea she will encounter the one person she has hoped to spend the rest of her life avoiding. There's no...

Up and Coming Starlet Gets ICED in, Murder on Ice by P.J. ConnLos Angeles, California, 1947 When aspiring actress Cookie Crumble is found dead in a refrigerator in a vacant apartment, the police immediately suspect the landlord's son whose father hires gumshoe PI Joe...

A ship full of suspects awaits Ruby and Fina. Will they find the murderer before their own secrets are revealed? Spring in the Caribbean, 1935. Cruising to disaster, Ruby Dove and Fina Aubrey-Havelock face down a murderer who is slowly crossing names off the...

By the year 1901, the Old West was just a memory and the new century only a promise. That's when a Texas woman's search for her missing brother draws the attention of a hard-boiled Texas Ranger who's on the trail of a notorious outlaw...

After dreaming that her alter-dimensional sister Sobak was in danger, Anna Rykov is sent to Depression era Boston to find and kill the shape shifting alien who has captured her, and whose plans could bring about the extinction of all life on Earth. Anna...

Insurance Executive Implicated in Murder of Mysterious Woman in Murder Me Twice by P.J. Conn Los Angeles, California, 1947Joe Ezell, GI turned gumshoe, pays the bills by catching philandering husbands for rich dames wanting a divorce. Then Faye Marten darkens his door. She doesn't...

In THE BLUE GIRL MURDERS, a series of gruesome murders of beautiful young blondes rocks Baltimore during the summer of 1966 when the city already is in turmoil from a police scandal and from enormous racial tension resulting from desegregation efforts by the Congress...

The third in the Bram Stoker Mysteries series, applauded in Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, RT Book Reviews and others. In this book London's Lyceum Theatre sees the death (Accident? Suicide? Murder?) of one of its top actors, while a figure taken to be a...

Drawing inspiration from the philosophical teachings of Camus and the allegory of Sisyphus, London '85 is an existentialist journey into the depths of the human condition. This compelling narrative centers around the tormented and ostensibly vapid life of a transplanted Northerner, trapped by his...

The fourth book in the Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney Mystery series, which finds the amateur sleuths caught up in the whirlwind of the London Season--and in a murderous scheme involving the family of Edmund and Fanny Bertram Jonathan Darcy and Juliet Tilney understand...

In 1796, the men at Fort Kenay or Russian Redoubt Saint Nicholas are terrified. A ghost, a woman in a tattered white dress, screams nightly along the banks of the Kenai River below the bluffs where the fort stands. Young Nicholas arrives with Captain...

Author: Christianna BrandISBN-10: 1464237581ISBN-13: 9781464237584Publisher: Poisoned Pen PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/10/2025Pages: 288Format: PaperbackSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.68d

Author: Jefferson GlassISBN-10: 1639775498ISBN-13: 9781639775491Publisher: Wolfpack Publishing LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/24/2024Pages: 348Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.87d

Queen Elizabeth's half-sister and secret agent Ursula Stannard takes on a dangerous new mission involving mysterious disappearances and murder in Cornwall in this gripping Tudor mystery. 1594. Ursula Stannard is attending on her half-sister, Queen Elizabeth, when she receives an urgent summons from Sir...

Author: Agatha ChristieISBN-10: 1998667073ISBN-13: 9781998667079Publisher: Revive ClassicsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/03/2024Pages: 144Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

Author: Kitty KildareISBN-10: 1915378885ISBN-13: 9781915378880Publisher: K.E. O'Connor BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/20/2024Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.55d

Author: S. K. RizzoloISBN-13: 9798991478502Publisher: S.K. RizzoloLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/15/2024Pages: 280Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d

Author: James C. WorkISBN-10: 1645995364ISBN-13: 9781645995364Publisher: Encircle Publications, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/11/2024Pages: 292Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.14lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81d

Author: James R. BennISBN-10: 1641297093ISBN-13: 9781641297097Publisher: Soho CrimeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/05/2025Pages: 368Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbs

Author: Sabrina LundISBN-10: 1068787929ISBN-13: 9781068787928Publisher: Goose House PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/15/2024Pages: 310Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.70d

In this classic spy thriller from an Edgar Award-winning author, a journalist goes undercover for British agency Department Z and discovers a conspiracy. When the sound of gunfire wakes Nigel Murray in the middle of the night, he discovers two gun-wielding strangers and a...

New York in the 1920s is the world's most glamorous city, and drinking it in like the finest champagne is Philo Vance, an expert in art with the deepest pockets, the brainiest brains, and the most gloriously ludicrous pretensions in the history of crime...

'Funny, fast-paced and dark... with dialogue that absolutely crackles' ELODIE HARPER'A brave, bold novel' ARAMINTA HALL Men steal everything. Now we want our share. 1922. Twenty-four-year-old Eleanor Mackridge is horrified by the future mapped out for her - to serve the upper classes or...

From the prolific author of Little Women, this crime fiction novella highlights the breadth of Louisa May Alcott's talent. First published in 1866, Behind a Mask takes place in Victorian England and follows a sly, master manipulator, Jean Muir. Working as the governess for...

"The German ambassador, madam," said Sherlock Holmes, "is reputed to be brilliant and very difficult.""My dear, Mr. Holmes," she said. "He is a man. Like all men when they are drunk and in the throes of ecstasy, he will be easy.""I must warn you,...

Madame Midas (1888) is a mystery novel by Fergus Hume. Although not as successful as The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886), an immediate bestseller for Hume, Madame Midas is a gripping novel with forbidden romance and a tightly wound mystery worthy of the...

THE ADVENTURE OF THE DEVILISH FOOTNOTE. The wealthy owner/publisher of England's most prestigious literary journal holds a soir e for the writers, critics and intelligentsia of London (modelled on the Bloomsbury Group) and is poisoned by one of the departing guests. Her brilliant secretary/editor...

American Sailor Kurt Reid is a hothead and a hard case--a man who hits first and asks questions later. As scrappy and rough around the edges as Jimmy Cagney, it's no wonder that when the ship's captain turns up dead, it's Reid who takes...

The murder of a United States congressman's son sends Inspector Simon Wolfe of the San Francisco Police Department on a pursuit in which he is blackmailed with his past as an Israeli assassin. When Inspector Wolfe falls in love with the dead boy's psychiatrist...

A grisly death near her new homestead draws Brigid Reardon into a complicated mystery soon after her arrival in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 1881 After the harrowing events that entangled her in Deadwood, Brigid Reardon just wants to move west and get on with her...

Author: James C. WorkISBN-10: 1645995356ISBN-13: 9781645995357Publisher: Encircle Publications, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/11/2024Pages: 292Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.66d

Author: Paul DohertyISBN-10: 1800325649ISBN-13: 9781800325647Publisher: Canelo Severn HouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/21/2021Pages: 298Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.67d

Author: Verity BrightISBN-10: 1835256309ISBN-13: 9781835256305Publisher: BookoutureLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/04/2024Pages: 354Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.79d

The first in a delightful new mystery series introducing a wonderfully eccentric sleuth, perfect for fans of M.C. Beaton, Richard Osman, and Paige Shelton. "Delicious, gaslit murder. I loved it." -Maureen Johnson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Truly Devious series When...

In this Victorian-era mystery, former Countess of Harleigh, Frances Hazelton, and her husband, George, uncover the secrets of backstage Paris to find out who's acting the role of a killer to chilling perfection . . . Frances and George are enjoying some well-deserved leisure...

October, 1650Traumatised Parliamentarian spy James Archer returns north seeking his sister Meg, missing in the aftermath of Newcastle's recent witch trials.Aloof, enigmatic Elizabeth Thompson draws him to investigate the ongoing killing of women who had worked to free the accused.But when Elizabeth herself becomes...

A pacy, evocative dark historical thriller about a working-class private detective in 1920s London's Soho, who has grown up alongside the morally dubious characters who are key to cracking the cases he investigates, for fans of Dominic Nolan and Laura Shepherd Robinson. When Cockney...

Author: Gail MeathISBN-13: 9798227660671Publisher: Gail MeathLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/15/2024Pages: 182Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.42d

Author: Kathleen MorrisISBN-13: 9798987456385Publisher: Dunraven PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/30/2024Pages: 268Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d