Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

"Hauntingly beautiful."--Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue"A thrilling story, remarkably told."--Lara Prescott, New York Times bestselling author of The Secrets We KeptJulia White is struggling: her bartending job isn't cutting it and her first book has sold...

Pinkerton agent Garrett Lyons arrives in Chicago in 1882, close on the trail of the person who murdered his partner. He encounters a vibrant city that is striving ever upwards, full of plans to construct new building that will "scrape the sky." In his...

DISCOVER THRILLING WESTERN ADVENTURES WITH COWBOY DETECTIVES BIG RED AND OLD RED AMLINGMEYER!In "Black List," the Amlingmeyer brothers ride into the Arizona Territory on a quest to unearth a buried secret, coveted by a ruthless cattle baron. Can Old Red's deductive skills, inspired by...

In the great tradition of classic novels like The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas and, more recently, Christ the Lord by Anne Rice and Stone Tables by Orson Scott Card, The Masada Scroll is bold and reverent, with deep and important meaning for today's...

As much as Beatrice Hyde-Clare relished the challenge of figuring out who murdered a fellow guest during a house party in the Lake District, she certainly does not consider herself an amateur investigator.So when a London dandy falls dead at her feet in the...

Sherlock Holmes, the world's "only unofficial consulting detective", was first introduced to readers in A Study in Scarlet published by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887. It was with the publication of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, however, that the master sleuth grew tremendously...

A festive invitation from an old family friend, the promise of gingerbread at the village inn, snowy walks on the Cornish coast with Gladstone the bulldog... But wait, is that a body on the beach? Winter, 1923. It's nearly Christmas and Lady Eleanor Swift...

Minnie is desperate. Her fiancé Samuel has been missing for over a week, and it's not like him to just disappear. Heightening her worry is the fact that, citing a small financial issue, he just will not settle on a wedding date. Is it...

Sassy socialite Grace Stotesbury has plans for her future. None include marriage, murder or blackmail.Nor do they include the dashing, ex-naval commander, Lord Lexington-now a charismatic Private Investigator who sets her heart pumping and skin tingling. The nerve of him.She is the last person...

Book 1 of the Hoarfrost Mysteries. In 1879, in a small but growing town in the Pacific Northwest, there was an attempted murder, a romance, and a ghost.... Adele Johansson is the town outsider, desperate for a chance at redemption. Her parents are murderers,...

The 12 days of Christmas in Stickleback Hollow are 12 short stories that take place over the 12 days of Christmas in the small village which is the home of so many mysteries. Each of the stories follows different characters from the series and...

THE GLORIOUS YACHT. On the night of April 12, 1912, off the coast of Newfoundland, one of the greatest disasters of all time took place - the Unsinkable Titanic struck an iceberg and sank with a horrendous loss of life.On board that ship was...

John began life in the usual fashion, but in the squalid surroundings of Victorian London his life was neither easy or pleasant. Educated by a priest, abandoned by his father, mentally and physically abused by his prostitute mother, - he seeks refuge at sea....

"Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets--and has a high old time doing it! So will you."--Ann B. Ross, New York Times bestselling author of the Miss Julia series After her philandering husband died and left her penniless in Prohibition-era New York, Lola Woodby escaped with...

It's l9l8. The war in Europe grinds on, and the Spanish flu seems to be on an insatiable killing spree. But in the small fishing village of Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, a more confined drama--harrowing and provocative--slowly unfolds. It begins when Elizabeth Frame murders her...

Summary of "Charlie Chan's Reno Riddle" "Charlie Chan's Reno Riddle" is a thrilling detective novel that takes readers on a captivating journey from the sunny shores of Honolulu to the mysterious alleys of Reno, Nevada. The story revolves around the iconic detective Charlie Chan,...

Don't believe everything you see on the news. Sometimes towns have secrets-big ones. And sometimes learning those secrets comes with a price.In the year 1934, the United States government quietly purchased a large plot of land near Hawkeye, Kansas. Only a select few Mennonite...

Murder's afoot! As Mrs. Ginger Reed also known as Lady Gold waits impatiently for the coming of her baby, new neighbours move onto Mallowan Court. The Foote family is very much like Ginger's own, if not the mirror opposite: Mr. and Mrs. Foote an...

A wave of rabies cases terrorises the people of London. Doctor Watson accompanies his colleague Doctor Glover to examine Marie, a young French-Canadian girl in terrible distress. When she dies a few days later, Watson and Holmes are caught in a web of deceit,...

Murder's a knockout! Despite her misgivings and general distaste for fighting sports, Mrs. Ginger Reed, also known as Lady Gold, agrees to attend a boxing match to support her adopted son's cousin, a street fighter who's quickly risen in the ranks.But when his opponent,...

Murder is a hit! It's the summer of 1956 and Private Investigator Rosa Reed (former Woman Police Constable from the London Metropolitan Police) attends her first rock and roll concert featuring the young and upcoming music sensation Elvis Presley. The high note goes sour...

Even the most glamorous stately homes hide secrets and lies from the past...When Flora Maguire receives an alarming telegram informing her of her father's tragic death in a riding accident, she races back from London to her childhood home.But when Flora and her new...

"The French are our allies, and they say they need you. I do not always trust them, but I believe them on this. Assisting them will support the treaty and peace, and Griffin, the continuation of peace is no sure thing. It sits on...

Family secrets are murder! When Ginger's former sister-in-law Felicia, now Lady Davenport-Witt, first received a mysterious note in the post, she dismissed it as coming from a nuisance writer. These things were known to happen to those who enjoyed social popularity. But with a...

When Terror Stalks the Texas Plains, Law and Justice Have Two Different Meanings.Kidnapping. Revenge. Terror. When Saddler County Sheriff Dell Hoffman is forced to kill a teenage ruffian in self-defense, he has no idea the incident will spark a blood feud with the boy's...

College librarian Doro Banyon discovers the body of her nemesis, Professor Hemet Corlon, near the card catalogues when she arrives for work. Evidence points to a terrible accident, but the new school security officer disagrees. Because Doro and Corlon have been at odds over...

I'm the eldest daughter of Romeo and Juliet. Yes, that Romeo and Juliet. No, they didn't die in the tomb. They're alive and well and living in fair Verona with their six wildly impetuous children and me, their nineteen-year-old daughter Rosaline... Knives Out meets...

Someone on board has a deadly destination in mind... can Cressida stop them before it's too late? After an eventful trip to the Scottish Highlands, Cressida Fawcett is looking forward to being back among her society friends in London. Enjoying an ice-cold martini 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...

Author: Lindsey DavisISBN-10: 1538515083ISBN-13: 9781538515082Publisher: Blackstone AudiobooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/03/2018Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 6.70h x 5.30w x 0.60d

"A fitting end for Zaytuna."Karen Heenan, author of The Tudor Court Series_________________Baghdad, 296 Hijri (909 CE)When an unscrupulous young scholar who claims to possess a controversial Quran manuscript goes missing, most of his colleagues are only too happy to see him gone. Is he...

"Jeffrey Ford is one of the few writers who uses wonder instead of ink in his pen." - Jonathan CarrollA bold and intriguing fabulist novel that reimagines two of the most legendary characters in American literature--Captain Ahab and Ishmael of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick--from the...

Sherlock Holmes has been missing and presumed dead for some time, and his grief stricken landlady, Mrs Hudson, is anxious for a distraction. However, she is in for a culture shock when she travels to Ireland with her friend Kitty Melrose, to try and...

There's no holiday from homicide for amateur sleuth Sebastian McCabe and his long-suffering brother-in-law, Jeff Cody. Murderers' Row, their second casebook of shorter stories, collects three adventures connected with what should have been happy occasions.When Meg Russert's destination wedding on the tropical island of...

Benjamin January heads to the "Slaveholders' Republic" of Texas to locate a kidnapped girl and help a woman who saved him from the noose. April, 1840. Benjamin January knows no black person in their right mind would willingly go to the Republic of Texas...

A distraught young woman arrives at Baker Street urgently requesting the assistance of Mr Sherlock Holmes. But the great man and his assistant Dr Watson are away. What to do? She confides in Holmes's landlady, Mrs Hudson, who over the years has developed certain...

A quartet of stories set in the World of Sherlock Holmes, in which nothing is ever as it seems.Page 1: The Detective Who Wasn'tPage 83: The Detective Who Wasn't TherePage 130: The Unlikely DetectivePage 175: The Tinseltown DetectiveAuthor: Mark SohnISBN-10: 1787053407ISBN-13: 9781787053403Publisher: MX PublishingLanguage:...

An invitation to take lunch at the Great Western Hotel at Paddington station leads Sherlock Holmes into a baffling mystery. Who is it that is watching every move made by popular journalist, Farringdon Blake, and why? When the trail goes cold in London, Holmes...

England, 1870: His health failing, his most important work all but done, Charles Dickens is readying himself for the final bed. But there is still one more story that he must tell. As a young journalist just getting his start, Dickens encountered a story...

People are disappearing. I spoke to my neighbour yesterday, we laughed at some nonsense, and today he is gone. We only discovered he was missing because the dog wouldn't stop howling and we all knew he would never leave his beloved pet. So I...

LARGE PRINT EDITION. Originally published in 1911, The Innocence of Father Brown is the first of five official collections of short stories focused on the crime-solving Roman Catholic. He is an endearing character often compared to another famous detective, Sherlock Holmes.Father Brown is a...

Malice is an historical mystery novel set in a few momentous weeks in the spring of 1961. As the Kennedy administration is barely underway, congressional aide Alexandra Bell works to stop a CIA catastrophe in the making, the botched invasion of Cuba. Meanwhile, her...

Having long abandoned any hope of making a match, twenty-six-year-old Beatrice Hyde-Clare finds herself a little overwhelmed by her engagement to the Duke of Kesgrave.Cloying society matrons clamor for her attention while her aunt reels off an endless list of servants she will have...

Over its hundred and fifty year history, professional baseball has experienced its share of scandals and embarrassments -- sometimes involving players, sometimes teams, sometimes team owners, sometimes the leadership of the game itself, and sometimes even the fans.There's been gambling. There's been cheating. There's...

Reporter and sleuth Emma Cross Andrews must stop a bold poisoner who is targeting the society wives of the Four Hundred in Gilded Age Newport, Rhode Island . . . August 1901: A fundraiser for a new Rhode Island Audubon Society brings Emma to...

From bestselling authors Janie Chang and Kate Quinn, a thrilling and unforgettable narrative about the intertwined lives of two wronged women, spanning from the chaos of the San Francisco earthquake to the glittering palaces of Versailles.San Francisco, 1906. In a city bustling with newly...

The Midnight Queen is a gothic novel by May Agnes Fleming.May Agnes Fleming(pseudonyms, Cousin May Carleton, M. A. Earlie; November 15, 1840 - March 24, 1880) was a Canadian novelist. She was "one of the first Canadians to pursue a highly successful career as...

"I want you to solve my murder," said the woman in white.Rachel Savernake gave a sardonic smile. "Quite a challenge."The woman in white--surreal artist Damaris Gethin--has invited a select group to the opening of her exhibit "Artist in Crime," held in the eerie subterranean...

Miss Penny, the well-beloved schoolmistress of Asterton, has two unique abilities. One is the ability to conjure the spirits of the dead through the playing of her piano. The other is to communicate telepathically with her cat, Onyx. When the irascible Lord Blackwood is...

Murder's frightfully unlucky! Mrs. Ginger Reed, known also as Lady Gold, settles into homelife with her husband Chief Inspector Basil Reed, son Scout and newborn daughter Rosa, but when an opportunity to join a dinner party at the renowned Savoy Hotel is offered, she's...