Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

Adapted from the journals of Detective Chief Inspector James Bartholomew Bass..Following their honourable discharge bearing full military honours from many years of distinguished service with the British Army and Her Majesty Queen Victoria's Covert Special Forces Unit, Major James Bartholomew Bass and Commander Alan...

Far from the Blitz, Marian Cowie is reluctantly resting in rural Aberdeenshire when a German 'plane crashes nearby. An airman goes missing, and old bones are revealed. Marian is sure she could solve the mystery if only the villagers would stop telling her useless...

Retired investigator Richard Palmer lives in the Charterhouse, a charity case engaged in regular altercations with the Preacher who is trying to make him conform. Nearly everyone has died, among them Chief Minister Cecil his old client and William Shakespeare his bête noir, the...

When Shakespeare's intensely personal sonnets are published, only one thing is clear: none in the triangle of author, male muse or dark lady is best pleased - and each has a score to settle.Richard Palmer is working as a censor, making sure that playhouse...

THE DEVIL'S STAIN The year is 1441. Harry Somers looks back on the events which led him to imprisonment in the Tower of London, where he faces execution. He has always been seen by some as cursed because of the vivid birth - mark...

While walking home late one evening, Frank Spargo, assistant editor of London's WATCHMAN newspaper, sees a dead body that the police have just discovered in Middle Temple Lane, that has no identification. At first it appears that this might simply be a case of...

MYSTERY ROMANCE AND THE OCCULT Revised 2025Virginia Pearson and the beautiful Aine O'Riordan are among a group of young women entering the convent of the Sisters of the Suffering Saviour. Strange happenings torment the sensitive and withdrawn Aine O'Riordan. Virginia tries to comfort her,...

The people of Tamarisk Bay are learning to deal with tragedy. It is one year after the start of the Second World War and coastal communities are having to cope with relentless German bombings. Hardship is affecting families on every level, from food rationing...

The philosophy of time, destiny and the stars pervade this intricate historical mystery in which a young woman determines to avenge her mother's death. 1752, Midsummer. Following a desperate summons from her mother, Tabitha Hart departs London for her home village of Netherlea -...

"Hereward is dead."His estranged wife, Torfrida, doesn't believe it. Beautiful, clever and wise in the lore of the stars, she assumes it's a trick to win back her wifely submission. Hereward the Wake, the legendary English hero who defied and defeated William the Conqueror,...

Professional baseball hasn't always been integrated. Up until the 1940s, there were white leagues and negro leagues. Regardless of talent, white team owners fought long and hard to keep blacks from entering their exclusive clubs. Then the Brooklyn Dodgers took the other owners on...

How far would you go to win the house of your dreams?Could you, would you, lie to your family? Marry a man you didn't love? What if someone had to die?Travel back to Edwardian England...A house, an inheritance and two women. But is it...

A religious cult grips Swansea, its followers believing they alone will be saved in the Apocalypse, once they surrender all they have to Our Lady of Mumbles. Soon events in the town are running out of control. In a world where happiness is denied...

A fatal jump. A missing suffragette. An inexplicable murder.London, 1920. For the first time ever, two women are competing against each other to become an MP. Reporter Iris Woodmore has a big story on her hands when she accompanies one of the candidates to...

Heather Atkinson's Victorian chiller is one that will keep readers engrossed all through the night and terrified of switching the lights off' Edinburgh 1896 Amy Alardyce's once-perfect life is in tatters. Her eldest son, Robert, has come of age, become the master of his...

Lady Frideswide has been poisoned.It was in no one's interest to do such a thing. The Lazar House, the leper hospital between Wisbech and Elm, relies heavily on charity, and no one has given so generously as Lady Frideswide de Banlon. Though haughty and...

If you thought nursery rhymes were for children, think again!The question of who killed Cock Robin is still unanswered as the trial of his alleged murderer collapses and the investigating officer disappears.DI Jerome Devereaux and DC Polly Huckabee are sent to South West England...

It's 1972. Richard Nixon has been re-elected, protests against the Vietnam war continue unabated, the women's movement is gaining in strength, Japanese cars are showing up on American streets, and the Allman Brothers are kings of the airways. In the midst of all this,...

Sometimes the truth lies hidden for years.Sometimes it is merely mislaid. Joshua Ambrose, poet and merchant of the Georgian town of Wisbech, rubs shoulders with some very interesting neighbours in his everyday life. Among them are the anti-slavery campaigner Thomas Clarkson and the Quaker...

Has extortionist extraordinaire Caleb Cassowary gone off the grid? Not hardly! He and his assistant Byzantia Bonobo escaped from Earth and landed on Biosphere X and Exoplanet Gaea, respectively. Caleb has persuaded the leaders of the Biosphere (Home World) with his plans for interplanetary...

Janey Wiggins lives a desperate life in London's East End at the end of the nineteenth century. With little education and fewer prospects, she has no hope of escaping the grinding poverty, constant hunger, and ever-present danger of life on the street -- that...

Christmas at the lavish Polar Paradise resort in the Shetlands, home of Bearoness Belinda Béarnaise Bruin Bear (nee Black); wife of Octavius Bear and mother of twin Cubs Arabella and McTavish. The entire Octavian team is on board including the Artificial Intelligence System Ursula...

Can it be true? Is Octavius Bear actually accused of murder? When Professor Hercules Ovibos, an extortionate fraud pursuing a law suit against Octavius, is found floating in the Detroit River, evidence brought forward by the Professor's lawyers seems to point toward the Great...

An unknown American tourist, who will one day achieve greatness, visits Carlisle to research his family history. His arrival coincides with Inspector Armstrong's investigating of a macabre series of grave-robbing incidents in the city. The detective's enquiries inadvertently lead him into investigating a case...

They called her Lady Stewart when she was married to a British aristocrat. They called her Miss Cora when she ran a brothel in Florida. But she called herself Mrs. Crane when she asked Sherlock Holmes to locate her common-law husband, writer Stephen Crane,...

Sherlock Holmes had never met a writer who had ridiculed him as bitterly as Samuel L. Clemens had. For that matter, Holmes had never met a writer who fancied himself a detective. Yet Sam Clemens not only unraveled Holmes investigation into the murder of...

Benedict Cumberbatch plays the young, feisty, devastatingly acute Horace Rumpole in this collection of cracking cases, also starring Timothy West as the older Rumpole. Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders: It is the fifties, and two war heroes have been shot dead. Defending the...

The legendary demise of Phil Archer's first wife is recalled in these archive editions of the much-loved BBC radio serial, plus a unique behind-the-scenes drama about Grace's death. The Archers is the longest-running radio drama in the world, and in 1955 the death of...

When disgraced small time politician Danny Senetti and local GP Maxine Wells become implicated in the ritualistic murder of a reclusive spinster they form an unlikely alliance. Drawn inexorably back almost two hundred years to historic, famine-blighted Ireland they discover more unsolved killings as...

Octubre 1938. El corresponsal de prensa extranjero, Jack Telford, está huyendo por el norte de España, territorio que se encuentra ahora en manos del franquismo. Acaba de matar a una figura importante y cercana al Generalísimo. Telford es así un hombre buscado. Tres enemigos...

The Case of Scotch - Volume Three of the Casebooks of Octavius Bear, concluded with a triumphant singing debut at the Edinbeargh Opera by Octavius' and Bearoness Belinda's protégés Bearnice Blanc, a polaratura soprano and her baritone singing partner, Leperello, a highly talented Himalayan...

After a two volume absence, the mad duck, Imperius Drake, and his dumb heavy subordinate, Bigg Baboon return with a vengeance (literally.) Set on conquest of the cosmos, the duck has hatched (sorry) a plot to revivify a savage ancient Egyptian Pharaoh, Tsk VI...

When two bodies are discovered in the grounds of York Minster shortly before the enthronement of the new archbishop, Owen Archer is summoned to investigate. December, 1374. With the great and the good about to descend on York for the enthronement of Alexander Neville...

The truth is stranger than fiction for Albert Campion in this gripping mystery where murder, detective novels and the supernatural collide. 1946, London. The eagerly anticipated new detective novel from Albert Campion's godsibling, bestselling author Evadne Childe, is proving to be another runaway success....

A quest to find the ancient sword Excalibur quickly turns into a hunt for a determined killer for Crispin Guest. London, 1396. A trip to the swordsmith shop for Crispin Guest, Tracker of London, and his apprentice Jack Tucker takes an unexpected turn when...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of the first twelve short stories based on the famous detective, including the cases of The Red-Headed League, The Speckled Band, and A Scandal in Bohemia. Holmes will need to use his various skills, including an...

Before her last year of high school, Rachel spent summer vacation with her family at the lake when someone attempted to kill her, but failed. From that moment on, Rachel felt the presence of strange black shadows following and harming her, and intense headaches...

On a warm August evening in 1905, a 12-year old boy is shot in the back and killed near the Orford Mountain Railway construction site in rural Quebec. The crime is all the more shocking for being the second such murder on a railway...

In 2006 a bundle of hand written pages were discovered buried in a garden in the outskirts of Cullybackey near Ballymena, County Antrim. They had been penned by Charles Kinhilt a lawyer from Cullybackey, County Antrim. They had been sealed in sacking and placed...

A teenage Metis trapper, reared in the Canadian wilderness, is thrust into civilization in early twentieth century Saskatchewan. Lynes and his family and friends become involved in historical events and interact with actual Prince Albert residents and prominent figures in Canadian history. This saga...

"Mayaguez and the Murder Ship" trace the marine exploits of First Mate, later Captain, Casey Flynn. Aboard the container ship Mayaguez, he was First Mate during the surprise capture of that vessel and crew by Cambodian communists in 1975. During the four days between...

Kate the undertaker always longed to be a doctor. In the 1860s in Edinburgh Scotland, despite the prestigious University of Edinburgh School of Medicine being right on her doorstep, she was not permitted to study. That didn't stop Kate from learning all she could...

February, 1950. Lee County, Florida. In the freewheeling, celebratory aftermath of World War II, survivors and veterans are starting new lives, resuming old ones, or just picking up the pieces. Former Navy officer Dan Ewing feels safer than any gay man might expect in...

Shunned because of his role in the infamous "Greenwich Massacre," PI Varian Pike finds himself on the outs with just about everybody, but, when buildings all over Stamford start exploding, Pike has to find a way to join the hunt for the bomber. After...

Who among them was so consumed with hatred, they chose to commit murder? Silent Vengeance is not the typical historical whodunit. In this fast paced adventure you are immersed into Parisian life 1900, the year of the great Universal Exposition, the largest world's fair...

As powerful as a President can become, there comes a day when he or she trembles a bit at the prospect of re-election. What to do when one's power is threatened? When one's hubris begins to evaporate in the heat of the day, what...

A FAMILY MOVES TO THE SEGREGATED SOUTH IN THE 1950S TO PERSUE A DREAM. INSTEAD THEY MEET THE UGLY FACE OF RACISM. YOUNG TOM DOOLEY COMES OF AGE WHEN THE WORLD OUTSIDE IS RAPIDLY CHANGING, BUT WHERE HE LIVES IS NOT. POWERFUL BACKWOODS POLITICIANS...

1969. Gary Daniels leaves his boss's apartment certain that he has lost his job because he failed to satisfy her love. Two days later the F.B.I. arrests his roommate and charges him with her murder. But Gary knows that his roommate could have committed...

The tumultuous 1960s have passed and given way to the turbulent 1970s where chaos is the word for world politics, war, protest, and vast changes in social reforms, music, art, and virtually all aspects of global civilization. Santa Fe, New Mexico is no exception...

Cairo, October 06, 1981: President Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt was gunned down in cold blood on that day. What nobody knew was that three innocent South Indians got entangled in that assassination!This tale will take you back to a shocking incident in the...