Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

"I had read enough mystery stories to know that girls who went out to meet strangers at night never came to a good end..."Stirling, 1877. Lillias Gilfillan, a recently orphaned girl of sixteen, falls in love and elopes with a man who sees her...

Praise for Peter Coe Verbica's The Missing Tales of Sherlock Holmes "Peter Coe Verbica has performed an invaluable service for the legions of Conan Doyle devotees still to be found everywhere, bringing seven new Holmes tales into the world. These stories are clever and...

A gripping and atmospheric debut that is at once a chilling gothic mystery and a love letter to Victorian fiction. Nobody ever goes to Hartwood Hall. Folks say it's cursed... It's 1852 and Margaret Lennox, a young widow, attempts to escape the shadows of...

Lancelot Nowlton, Viscount Lakehurst writes gothic novels.The widow Lady Cassandra Tidemark, Marchioness of Darkford, is living a gothic nightmare.The young marchioness is haunted by nightmarish visions of a past she can't escape. The memory of her husband's death, shrouded in a ritualistic mystery reminiscent...

Eddie Maguire's Sherlock Holmes and the Bolshevik Plot follows on immediately after the conclusion of Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Mission, in which our two heros find themselves in Italy where it is clear that the future of Europe and its leaders are in...

Named BookLife Reviews "Editor's Pick" - "Setting this series apart from other historical mysteries is Brighton's deft hand at capturing the dishy lives of long ago ... has the feel of a great cocktail party... the tangled mysteries compel ... a polished, rewarding page-turner...

In 1955, small-town girls flock to Minneapolis for work, love, and adventure. But Teresa Hickman, from Dollar, North Dakota, is a special case. Beguiling. Promiscuous. And, on a chilly April morning, dead along an abandoned trolley track in a Southside neighborhood. Teresa Hickman was...

Years after its final episode was broadcasted by the BBC, The Baker Street Sleuth continues to be the most famous Sherlock Holmes TV series of all time, with constant re-runs and thousands of fans. Jerry Bellamy is one of them, and his passion for...

In The Mystery of the Yellow Room fictional detective Rouletabille investigated a complex and seemingly impossible crime -- in which the criminal appears to disappear from a locked room! There've been so many locked-room mysteries since that it's become a subgenre -- but there...

A peace-seeking man must unravel the mystery that led to his former lover's death Expat American journalist Sam Kramer is burned out: too many dead bodies, too many wars covered, too little meaning in it all. He's got a dead-end job at the Daily...

Cyrus Skeen, private eye in 1928 San Francisco, is approached by a captivating French countess, Vanessa Favaul, and a brusque retired British army colonel, Burton Heywood, to find the thief who stole a priceless artifact from countess's mother. At the same time, he wonders...

"The 26th issue of Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine features new and classic mystery tales FEATURES: From Watson's Notebooks, by John H Watson, M D Ask Mrs Hudson, by (Mrs) Martha Hudson NON FICTION: Screen of the Crime: Sherlock Gnomes, by Kim Newman Quail, Partridge,...

From The Davies Brothers, winners of the BAFTA Rocliffe New Writers Showcase (supported by the London Book Fair)... The Centurion Papers is a thrilling new series of Sherlock Holmes mysteries. Too explosive for publication, kept hidden for a hundred years... until now. More mystery,...

"Clever and entertaining, you'll love this charming Golden Age mystery series. And the fashion is to die for!" - Molly C. Quinn, actress, Castle Murder à la mode! There's nothing more fun than a festive holiday dinner party and Ginger Reed, the former Lady...

He's a high school English and Theater teacher who always secretly wanted to be a cop. So when Monty Farraday is summoned, for reasons unknown, to meet with principal Reginald Brandenburg prior to the start of the school year during the unpredictable summer of...

An elderly woman's body is found mutilated in her home while her ward, Marie, vanishes without a trace. Detective Payne, a seasoned investigator devoted to justice, is assigned to the case. Little does he know, he's about to embark on a relentless pursuit that...

"Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour." - Ephesians 4:28 When Carsten Whitford is arrested for a robbery he didn't commit, he struggles to clear his name that's already stained by his father's arrest from four years ago. Carsten...

More humor and historical friction from the author of "No Roads Lead to Rome "123 A.D.Saturnalia-the winter festival where slaves become masters and masters, slaves - is in full, raucous swing.Gaius Severus, a young misfit searching for love, identity and breakfast is working a...

"The Riddle of the Sands - A Record of Secret Service Recently Achieved" is a 1903 novel by British-born Irish writer Erskine Childers (1870-1922). "The Riddle of the Sands" is a nautical tale of a two-man sailing trip along the German coast at the...

San Francisco--the infamous City by the Bay. There are dark elements at work, and it's not as easy as splitting the world into groups of Good Guys vs. Bad Guys. Lines are being crossed, and the rules don't always count. Matt Vaughn, former police...

Nameless: Book Three of the Toby Whitby Mystery seriesDid the boy with no name murder his own mother?England 1952: The war has been over for seven years but Toby and his clients are still living in its shadow. The young man sitting in Toby's...

THE INEQUALITY OF MERCY. What happened after Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson pardoned Captain Jack Croker for killing Sir Eustace at the Abbey Grange? Have you imagined that he sailed the seven seas for a year and then returned to his beautiful, beloved Mary...

Lost Buddha; a postwar Sue Lee Mystery series involving seventh-century tapestries preserved by an antique dealer during the war. After his brutal death, the first Lost Buddha is discovered, and the race is on to find the other five, hiding somewhere in the world....

In the fifth in this stellar series Hildegard returns from pilgrimage to Compostela only to be sent by her Prioress to the remote and sinister Handale Priory. Used as a house of correction for sinning nuns, it lies in the north of the county...

Politics, murder, and mortal danger confront retired General George Washington as he considers whether to accept the presidency of the United States.The General has retired to his farm, Mount Vernon, but he cannot escape the politics of his time. The new constitution requires a...

Payback - Tales of Love, Hate and Revenge, the second book of the Passaic River Trilogy, is a drama so intense that it would be improbable anywhere but 1946 Newark. Across the country millions were dealing with the loss of loved ones, and horrible...

It's September 1902, and Mary MacDougall has fulfilled her greatest dream-opening her own detective agency. But the achievement doesn't come without complication. Mary's father insists that an older cousin come to work with her-as both secretary and minder. Jeanette Harrison pledges to keep the...

When a prominent citizen is murdered, former Captain of the Guard Owen Archer is persuaded out of retirement to investigate in this gripping medieval mystery. 1374. When a member of one of York's most prominent families is found dead in the woods, his throat...

Always enticing in divine twenties fashion, Phryne, one of the most exciting and likeable heroines in crime writing today, leads us through a tightly plotted maze of thrilling adventure set in 1920s Australia. The divine Phryne Fisher returns to lead another dance of intrigue....

"Never waste good rum on a bad night." - Teddy Lawless, February 1926.There are many bad nights ahead for Teddy. Shortly after she arrives at the newly opened Vinoy Hotel in Saint Petersburg, she comes face to face with her ex-fianc , Ansel Stevens,...

In 2015, The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories burst upon the scene, featuring adventures set within the correct time period, and written by many of today's leading Sherlockian authors from around the world. Those first three volumes were overwhelmingly received, and there...

Second in a series of period-authentic Holmes adventures, faithful to the style and chronology of the original Doyle tales.Author: Richard K. RadekISBN-10: 1082759295ISBN-13: 9781082759291Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/17/2019Pages: 278Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.63d

Simmering tensions, buried memories and old scores are revived at Wychbourne Court when Lady Ansley's old theatre group reunite to perform the Wychbourne Follies. 1926, Kent. Lady Ansley's old Gaiety Theatre group are reuniting at Wychbourne Court for the weekend. But how will they...

The fifth Sebastian Foxley Medieval Mystery.London is not safe for princes or commoners.In February 1478, a wealthy merchant is killed by an intruder and a royal duke dies at the Tower. Neither case is quite as simple as it seems.Seb Foxley, an intrepid young...

Aus dem Buch: "Mrs. Greta Gurden gestattete sich selten den Luxus ber Beleidigungen nachzudenken. Sie war nicht philosophisch veranlagt, und es war reine Notwendigkeit, da sie alle kleinen und gro en Unannehmlichkeiten bersah und sich nur mit vergn glichen Dingen besch ftigte. Aber mit...

Armadale is a mystery novel. The novel has a convoluted plot about two distant cousins both named Allan Armadale. The father of one had murdered the father of the other (the two fathers are also named Allan Armadale). The story starts with a deathbed...

Reproduction of the original: The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine ChildersAuthor: Erskine ChildersISBN-10: 3734014271ISBN-13: 9783734014277Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/20/2018Pages: 254Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

One Secret Changes her war forever...WW2 September 1940.During the middle of a Blitz raid on wartime London, Journalist Anna Forrester receives the phone call that will change everything.Her dying mother leaves her the diary of the long deceased aristocratic heiress Elizabeth Leyac. Just who...

In this gripping debut thriller, Mitch Silver brings to life Ian Fleming's world of spies, love, passion, and danger when a young woman inherits Fleming's long-hidden account of spying during World War II and must finish it to find out why people are trying...

Tom Sawyer, Detective is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain. It is a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894). Tom Sawyer attempts to solve a mysterious murder in this burlesque of the...

Elijah Conner Pennington is a private investigator specializing in cold cases. His published cases are based on actual events and are chronicled in his first cold case in a book titled COLT ACE, while his second adventure is presented in the author's book titled...

Life is not easy for the flawed ex-marine war hero as he searches for a teenager missing since the stock market crash twenty years earlier. Before the case is resolved he must deal with an amnesiac who may or may not be involved with...

When Graham Woodard is hired to restore part of a previously lost silent horror film-Angel of the Abyss-the last thing he expects is the first in a series of murders clearly meant to keep it lost. With one-time friend Jake Maitland in tow, the...

The Spirits of the Sodus Bay Shakers is a captivating telling of the Shaker culture and land from the 1830s. It is a work of fiction but its historical content is unmistakable. The book clearly describes the struggles believers face in maintaining dedication to...

When Symphony Wallace moves to a small town in Virginia, she expects to start a new job and learn more about the woman who abandoned her as an infant. She doesn't expect to find a new love, meet a Hollywood legend, or take a...

As World War II rages across Europe and the Pacific, its impact ripples through communities in the heartland of America. A farm girl is locked in a dangerous love triangle with two Germans soldiers held in an Illinois POW camp ... Another German, a...

HIDDEN MICKEY ADVENTURES 1 Peter and the Wolf First novel in the Hidden Mickey Adventures series (following Hidden Mickey 4: Wolf Happily Ever After?). The author of the acclaimed Hidden Mickey series continues the saga with a new generation of clue solvers. Readers will...

HIDDEN MICKEY 1 Sometimes Dead Men DO Tell Tales Volume 1 in a series of action-adventure mysteries about Walt Disney and Disneyland written for Adults, Teens, & Tweens (age 10 & up). Flesch-Kincaid Grade 4.2 - Flesch Reading Ease 83 TWO FRIENDS FIND WALT...

The Mystery of the Yellow Room is presented here in a new, unabridged and uncut translation by JM & Randy Lofficier, with 30 pages of original material translated for the first time. It was written in 1907 by Gaston Leroux, the celebrated author of...

When Charlotte Richmond's dearest friend decides to visit Bath for medical treatment, Charlotte, a young Victorian widow, is delighted to accompany her but the spa town turns out to be far less genteel than she anticipates. Their fellow guests at elegant Waterloo House seem...