Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

In October 1959, someone is out for revenge against young L.A. PI, Stan Wade, who has solved a few cases for his main client, Walt Disney. When a CIA agent mistakenly dies in Stan's place, Stan initiates a revenge investigation that leads him outside...

Fiction. At the end of the 18th century, two grave robbers, a secretive doctor, the village midwife, and the young sole survivor of a mysterious disease combine to tell a story in the strange coastal village of Chilling. Imagined as a prequel to Dickens'...

"Are you quite certain?" asked his friend."Positive. I should know her again anywhere.""She's very handsome. And look, too, by Jove! -- how she is winning!""Yes. But let's get away. She might recognize me," exclaimed the younger man anxiously. "Ah! If I could only induce...

The Man in the Chimney by Betty Vaughn is a Civil War story of an unlikely and troubled romance between a New York Calvary officer in Union occupied New Bern, and the Lenoir County woman who saves his life. The War Between the States...

Love is personal, war is not, especially in North Carolina, 1865-1867, during the reconstruction. With a love they are certain will transcend all else, southern belle Penny Kennedy marries Union Officer and attorney, Ryan Madison, despite the condemnation of those around them. The initial...

Author: Ray Faraday NelsonISBN-10: 1587150816ISBN-13: 9781587150814Publisher: Borgo PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2000Pages: 184Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 8.99h x 6.03w x 0.47d

When her hospital contract ends unexpectedly, Perri Seamore accepts a spur-of-the-moment position filling in for a home health nurse. Soon after starting the job, she finds there is much more going on in southern Illinois than she anticipated.Pursuing her interest in genealogical research, Perri...

Brimming with heart-stopping action, The Riddle of the Sands is one the earliest spy novels. This spell-binding story is set in the period before the start of the First World War. A gem of the thriller genre While on a sailing trip in the...

Faith Creek is getting busy, welcoming newcomers and finding that the more people arrive the better things get. Each new addition to the town brings new skills and new perspectives, new hopes and new dreams. Every new shop needs new staff, and those already...

A frightful affair with death in the air, will Lady Sarah's first All Hallows' Eve in Stickleback Hollow also be her last?Though her parents are gone, Lady Sarah is starting to feel at home in Stickleback Hollow. Filled with dread for her first English...

Lord Charles Danvers, still mourning his lost love Charlotte, hopes to escape from his ghosts at the gala coming-of-age celebrations for the son of an old family friend. All is jubilation and proper respectability until the evening is shattered by a brutal murder. The...

Polio disabled Cotton Lee's leg, but not her sexuality, not her mind, and not her ability to connect the murder of her friend Little Mary in 1972 to that of Bead Baker in 1932. Gone on Sunday is a literary mystery that follows the...

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare is a novel by G. K. Chesterton, first published in 1908. The book is sometimes referred to as a metaphysical thriller.In Edwardian era London, Gabriel Syme is recruited at Scotland Yard to a secret anti-anarchist police corps....

In Edwardian London, Scotland Yard detective Gabriel Syme is inducted into a secret anti-anarchist taskforce. Going undercover posing as an anarchist, Syme is soon introduced to a secret society of anarchists. The society has secrets of its own, and nobody is entirely sure of...

Erlanger, 1977: Five boys are gearing up for the best summer ever. When they decide to visit the local graveyard at midnight, one of them has a big surprise that none of the others would have expected. The next day, there's a dead body...

Based on the true story of an 1859 murder that occurred in front of the White House in Washington D.C. Philip Barton Key, son of Francis Scott Key, carried on a love affair with the young, beautiful wife of Congressman Dan Sickles. The affair...

A Hertfordshire Pub Mystery. With the loss of his wife and livelyhood, sixty-year-old Spencer Stevens has nothing much left except a forty-year-old snapshot of a lost love and the right to renovate and run a derelict Hertfordshire public house. Spencer's struggle to solve the...

Everything was going smoothly on the set of "The High and the Mighty" until the cast and crew returned from lunch. With one exception. Wiley Wyckham, the bit player sitting in seat 24A on the airliner mockup, is among the missing, and without Wyckham...

A missing woman, a charming, untrustworthy lord. The mystery deepens at every turn. Horn Cottage, an ancient cave house, has been home to the cunning folk of Thornton Cleveleys for generations. The early death of her mother left Meryall as the cunning woman for...

1868 Ottawa D'Arcy McGee is assassinated. As John A. Macdonald cradles his friend's bloody head, he blames transplanted Irish terrorists: the Fenian Brotherhood. Within a day, Patrick James Whelan is arrested. After a show trial, Whelan is publicly hanged. That much is history. Did...

Hori and Nakhtmin have barely adjusted to their new duties as the pharaoh's palace physicians when Hori is summoned to the secret embalming compound. A heart has been found there, which doesn't belong to any of the corpses; a heinous crime must have been...

When a horrific murder takes place on a dark night in 1860's London, it changes two women for ever. New light is cast upon past lives they thought they knew so well, and suddenly their futures become intertwined. The death of her uncle will...

Joe finds himself in Quebec but it's no vacation. Alfred Hitchcock is shooting a suspenseful thriller called "I Confess" and Montgomery Clift is playing a priest accused of murder. A marriage made in heaven? Hardly. They have been at loggerheads since Day One and...

Maggie Wilson was only thirty-three, but life in the teeming streets of Walworth was not that easy in 1908 - not if you were a widow with four young daughters. It was pretty much a hand-to-mouth existence and without the lodger Maggie really wouldn't...

Sherlock Holmes brings us a collection of five brand new detective mysteries. Season Tickets to a Crime Carnival. A woman's scream pierced the silence, and the tent erupted into chaos. I grabbed Watson's coat to steady myself as the audience swarmed down the platform...

The Battle of the Little Big Horn Battle has generated history, legends, and myths. George Armstrong Custer was a popular figure, and the youngest Civil War general. His defeat at the battle by what was viewed as a Stone Age people during the Centennial...

Pray tell, do you love to read Sherlock Holmes stories? But in real books? Eyesight not quite as good as it once was? But you want to read MORE SHERLOCK? You came to the singularly correct place. Sixty new "canonical" Sherlock Holmes stories; each...

In 1900, the crumbling French Quarter is an enclave of immigrants, primarily Sicilian. Early one July evening, four year old Luigi Bova is lured from in front of his house by the promise of ice-cream by a man who tosses Luigi into the back...

In the icy winter of 1786, in the final years before the French Revolution, hunger, cold, and seething frustration with the iron grip of France's absolute monarchy drive poor and rich alike to outright defiance. Slums, fashionable caf s, and even aristocratic mansions echo...

Pray tell, do you love to read Sherlock Holmes stories? But in real books? Eyesight not quite as good as it once was? But you want to read MORE SHERLOCK? You came to the singularly correct place. Sixty new "canonical" Sherlock Holmes stories; each...

Paris, 1796. Aristide Ravel, freelance undercover police agent and investigator, is confronted with a double murder in a fashionable apartment. The victims are C lie Montereau, the daughter of a wealthy and influential family, and the man who was blackmailing her. Information steers Ravel...

THE BALD-HEADED TRUST. No sooner has Sherlock Holmes arrived in Plymouth for a short vacation than he finds himself in the middle of an unsolved crime - the Telegraph Murders. Two electrical engineers were found dead after completing a contract for the new Western...

Settling in for a routine day at the office in 1989, high school memories are the furthest thing from David Miller's mind. But when an unexpected phone call interrupts the personal injury lawyer's midafternoon slump, he is surprised to hear from Michael Eisenberg-a former...

Return to Baker Street, where the world's most famous detective encounters six new cases that require his expert touch. London's super sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, sets out with longsuffering Watson as the detectives of Scotland Yard are stumped yet again. Blood coats the street of...

provoking novel boycotted and highly applauded... Hitler loved the Bayreuth Festival. He adored Richard Wagner s music. That s the background of the novel. Bayreuth has a unique place in German history. There is no better spot to observe the radical fault lines in...

John Moffatt stars as Hercule Poirot in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatization of Agatha Christie s famous novel.Hercule Poirot is a guest at a weekend house party, given at the Cornish cliff-top home of the celebrated actor Sir Charles Cartwright. The other visitors...

A mysterious illness claims three lives, and Dr. Alexandra Gladstone suspects an epidemic. She is able to save the fourth, but he's found murdered with his heart surgically removed. Constable Snow is at a loss to find the killer and to keep the village...

A gathering of nobels at the country estate of the Fifth Earl of Dunsfor, and a killer stalks the guilded halls. Each of the guests has a secret vendetta against the Earl, but when he;'s found murdered in his bed, the lords and ladies...

Ashley's Shadow is based on the real 1934 murder of Ethel Allen who's mutilated body was found on the banks of the Indian River in Eau Gallie, Florida. For decades the case remained unsolved until a young journalist, Brad Kirby, working for Dead End...

Sinfully decadent Anthony Kennington, Viscount Hastings, lives for pleasure-and he rues the day when he must wed and produce an heir. But he is not a man who runs from danger, and when he chances upon an enchanting gypsy maiden in the woods hounded...

A mystery/thriller look at the contemporary art world with flash backs to World War II and Hitler's theft of art treasures. A mysterious map leads to an adventure fraught with danger as a search is made for Hitler's hidden art work and The Amber...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is requested by the British Government to form a team of psychics capable of tracking down a serial killer who murdered a member of the British Royal Family. Conan Doyle, who has the ability to touch objects and ascertain their...

John Morgan, owner of the Eagle Gold Mine, has disappeared With Fighting Joe Hooker's spring offensive imminent, the Bureau of Military Information can spare no time looking for a civilian and turn to the McEntee brothers to assist. Although photographer Rob dreams of capturing...

West meets East as bootleggers and cops tangle with opium smugglers and corrupt officials in a new kind of gang warfare.Prospect Avenue is nothing more than a dirt road ending in bulrushes behind a roadhouse. It's a popular rendezvous point along the Detroit River...

It's the winter of 1923 and the border towns are under a deep freeze, with ferries ice-bound in the Detroit River, snow burying the streets, and power interruptions. Prohibition is still the backdrop to daily life, but opium smuggling and human trafficking are a...

A rock thrown during a brawl between the "Georgetown Boys" and "Washington City Pigs" sends out ripples that engulf not only photographer Rob McEntee and his brother Andrew, but also Generals McClellan and Burnside, nurse Clara Barton, and the Confederate spy, Thomas Nelson Conrad.Author:...

Photographer Robert McEntee is busy settling into a new studio, tutoring former slave Frederick Foons as his apprentice, and worrying about his errant brother, Andrew serving in the army on the Peninsula of Virginia. When Frederick's escaped grandmother arrives in Washington, D.C. bearing news...

Photographic operator Robert McEntee's routine is upended when Colonel Ellsworth's New York Fire Department Zouaves arrive in Washington, D.C. at the outset of the Civil War. They are uncooperative sitters by day and set off false alarms by night-and they've enlisted his younger brother,...

This early work by Wilkie Collins was originally published in 1879. Born in Marylebone, London in 1824, Collins' family enrolled him at the Maida Hill Academy in 1835, but then took him to France and Italy with them between 1836 and 1838. Returning to...

This early work by Wilkie Collins was originally published in 1859. Born in Marylebone, London in 1824, Collins' family enrolled him at the Maida Hill Academy in 1835, but then took him to France and Italy with them between 1836 and 1838. Returning to...