Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

This early work by Wilkie Collins was originally published in 1855. 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 1854. 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 1854. 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...

At middle-age, Karin Halber discovers everything she thought she knew about her parents and her childhood is untrue. Reared by her grandparents, she was led to believe her mother and father lost their lives in a car crash when she was only five years...

The Big Bow Msytery is reported to be the first 'locked-room' mystery novel - a detective story that follows the rules of 'fair play' by providing the evidence for the solution, with clues imbedded in the text. It also supplies alternative solutions and suspects,...

Sherlock Holmes That magical name conjures up all that is thrilling and exciting about the classic mystery short story. The Great Detective, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is without doubt the most well-known and popular fictional character ever created-and with good reason. Doyle's...

In the tradition of the Ace Doubles (flip the book over to read the second title), here's the eleventh Wildside Mystery Double: THE BAKER STREET BOYS: TWO BAKER STREET IRREGULAR NOVELLAS, by Brian Ball. If Mr. Sherlock Holmes had been in the country when...

Noora Fendil, the favorite daughter of a very successful and influential Middle Eastern businessman, has the perfect life. Until one night in London. Just two months before graduating from a posh London Ladies college, and while planning her lavish wedding to her childhood sweetheart,...

Herein chronicles the exploits and adventures of Ars ne Lupin, a burglar who blends effortlessly into high society, adapting a gentlemanly persona as a cover for his criminal misdeeds. This classic crime caper established the antihero character of Ars ne Lupin, who is the...

September 1939. Thousands of children are leaving the city and their families behind, heading for the coast and countryside with the launch of Operation Pied Piper. In Tamarisk Bay the Chandler family are preparing for war and all the changes it will bring. Taking...

It is 1208. An icy landscape. A missing peasant. And a baby. Aumary Belvoir is about to become a father again but sadly this joyous time is marred by the disappearance of one of his cowmen, Borden Lea, who has not come home from...

The Valley of Fear, the last of the four Sherlock Holmes novels, ranks among Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's best work. The mystery begins with a coded warning of imminent danger, drawing the illustrious Sherlock Holmes and the faithful Dr. Watson to a secluded English...

Anna-Marie Pauper prides herself on being perfectly practical in every way. Until one day, she isn't.An orphan with an interest in tinkering finds herself grown into a thief and a spy and she wants out. She wants more than to do what she is...

In 1973 Southeast Texas, the home phone with the rotary dial hangs on the kitchen wall, Coca-Cola comes in chilled glass bottles, and Tom T. Hall is on the radio singing about old dogs and children and watermelon wine. This is the world of...

Who expects to find a corpse in a fairground? Certainly not Clara Fitzgerald, Brighton's first female private detective, who is enjoying some time off when a new case falls straight into her lap. Just exactly who was the corpse sitting propped in the House...

Clara Fitzgerald was hoping for a quiet Christmas, but when the elderly Miss Sampford sends out a plea for help Brighton's first female private detective can hardly refuse. Miss Sampford believes someone is trying to scare her out of her house. A 'ghost' has...

As the winter of 1921 slowly turns to spring, certain residents of Brighton find themselves at the mercy of a poison pen writer, who is spreading rumours and innuendo about the town. Disturbed by the scandal this could cause, Mrs Wilton, one of Clara's...

In the middle of a stormy night, photographer Oliver Bankes runs into a man who has been dead three weeks. Terrified, he seeks out Clara Fitzgerald, Brighton's first female private detective, and draws her into a supernatural mystery revolving around the Howton family and...

As the final hours of 1921 tick down, Clara Fitzgerald, Brighton's first female private detective, and Captain O'Harris prepare to celebrate New Year's Eve aboard the liner Mary Jane. Little do they know that the evening is going to be disrupted by the discovery...

Father Christian Lound has been missing since 1917, no one knows what became of him, only that before he vanished he was accused of treachery. Emily Priggins can't leave the mystery of her brother's disappearance alone, despite her father's violent warnings not to push...

When Issac Graves, Brighton solicitor and tireless philanthropist, dies at his desk, everyone assumes overwork was to blame. But then rumours begin to circulate - was Graves' death all it seemed to be? Was his demise really brought on by ill-health and exhaustion? Clara...

Violence finds its way to old Hollywood in the eleventh Josephine Tey mystery, perfect for fans of Rhys Bowen and Jacqueline Winspear. September 1939, and the worries of war follow Josephine Tey to Hollywood, where a different sort of battle is raging on the...

Elizabeth Caldwell is a hardworking, hardnosed homicide detective with a penchant for working alone - and a broken heart from the recent breakup with her ex-fiancé, Brandon Price. With her life in shambles, her apartment gone and now loving back home with her parents,...

Albion Industries, Britain's leading manufacturer of cosmetics, have hired the Brighton Pavilion to host a trade fair. Everything is set to bring people into the town and to showcase Albion's latest creation - the Pearl Pink lipstick. What could go wrong at an event...

Author: David YoungISBN-10: 1250909929ISBN-13: 9781250909923Publisher: Minotaur BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2017Pages: 416Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 8.25h x 5.38w x 0.93d

It's 1942. Cynical about her missing-in-action former lover's patriotism, gossip columnist Jane Benjamin aims for a national byline, volunteering to find a picture-perfect Wendy-the-Welder poster girl; but when two top choices die, Jane must choose between personal ambition and service before the murderer kills...

Gangsters, Flappers, Jazz, and Murder in the wide open Free State of Galveston, 1926Who killed Victoria Yeats?Casino owner, Donny Colleta, wants retribution. Someone has murdered his mistress. The killer must be found. The killer must pay.Conner Miles, bootlegger turned mob sleuth, gets the job....

Blueprints of a weapon of unimaginable power are stolen from a room in the Savoy Hotel. In the first of four stories, Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson find that all is not as it seems in Room 66 of the Savoy. Have agents of...

The year is 1950, and old timers connected to the outlaw Billy the Kid are popping up dead in the sleepy town of Fort Sumner, New Mexico. It's up to the local sheriff, Hondo Dumez, to figure out why. Matters become complicated upon the...

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson are at home at 221B Baker Street as London endures the dark, stormy days of winter. Then an experienced government courier is found brutally murdered near the Royal Naval College in Greenwich and the priceless secrets entrusted to...

Murder stalks a touring stage production ofA Christmas Carolin this 1930s-set festive mystery Christmas 1935 at London's Theatre Royale and the drama has turned deadly... December 1935. Director Chester Harrison's production of A Christmas Carol has had a troubled run on its tour of...

Anna-Marie and Ambrose are in more hot water than a kettle of tea for this anticipated sequel!What do you do when you steal a book from the queen and have it stolen from you?Grovel. At least, that is Ambrose's solution.Anna-Marie doubts it will work...

When a man dumps a body on a beach in full view of onlookers, the investigation that follows throws up a number of dark twists for DCI Henry Johnstone.January 5, 1930. On a cold, grey winter morning, a mysterious man walks along Bournemouth beach...

Private investigators Lily Raynor and Felix Wilbraham tackle a puzzling miscarriage of justice and the curious case of a missing child, in the new, gripping World's End Bureau Victorian mystery. London, August 1881. After a difficult few months, the World's End Investigation Bureau is...

Someone murdered a university student.They found him lying in his bed. Dead. His head smashed by a cricket bat.The local police arrest another student, claiming it was a case of jealous rage over the affections of a beautiful girl.The arrested student's formidable mother demands...

Sylvia is still struggling with the terrible secret she has learned about Miles, when she is dealt a fresh blow. During a visit to an art museum, she unknowingly becomes the last person to speak with a murder victim alive. Forced to set aside...

The resourceful and intrepid Rosalind Thorne, a heroine after Jane Austen's heart, has a scandalous mystery to solve within Regency-era high society, in the latest novel in this nationally bestselling historical series. Ideal for fans of Andrea Penrose, Lauren Willig, and Deanna Raybourn. Rosalind...

From author Helen Goltz, the second book in the exciting series about love, fate, and putting to rest more than the dead, with a hint of magic, mystery and visions. Miss Phoebe Astin of The Economic Undertaker is not just a talented mortician, but...

When Eight Countries gang up to plunder an aging empire, only a fool would get in their way.The Brits called it the Boxer Rebellion, but the 'Boxers' called themselves YiHeQuan; Righteous Fist, and they faced off against the Eight Nation Alliance, their ambitious plan...

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

When an innocent man goes on the run from police, Sylvia finds herself harboring an accused murderer. Drawn into investigating the violent crime, her search for the truth leads her into the unfamiliar world of betting and horseracing. As danger closes in around her,...

The Good Old Summertime is the first book in the Julia Nye historical mystery series.In 1910, prohibiting the sale of alcohol is the hot-button issue of the day. And sometimes the debate gets out of hand . . .In 1910, Julia Nye has an...

A diplomat's murder draws heiress-turned-lawyer Prudence MacKenzie and former Pinkerton Geoffrey Hunter away from the opulent mansions of Gilded Age New York's high society and into the dark heart of Chinatown . . . February 1891: New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is hosting...

A Jane Austen-inspired mystery, set in the world of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, being the fourth novel in the Miss Mary Investigates series.When Mary Bennet befriends Elinor Dashwood, she expects to become part of the young lady's circle and be introduced...

A murder shocks the small town of Walden. And it's only the beginning...Walden, 1921. Local reporter Iris Woodmore is determined to save her beloved lake, Waldenmere, from destruction.After a bloody and expensive war, the British Army can't afford to keep the lake and build...

The novel is the ultimate bestseller in Georgia and is based on one of the most tragic events of the 1980s when seven young people hijacked an airplane in an attempt to escape from the Soviet Union. It was a reckless move at that...

She's on the verge of greatness. He's a self-proclaimed black sheep. When a slaying brings them together, getting locked up could tear them apart... San Francisco, 1872. An American murder mystery series.Susannah Carterton yearns to be accepted as a serious artist. But family comes...

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...

Jake Reynolds is an art thief. A master artist who can create an exact replica of any famous canvas, in intricate detail. So precise and elegant is his work that even today, hanging on the walls of the most prestigious museums and art galleries...

Jake Reynolds is an art thief. A master artist who can create an exact replica of any famous canvas, in intricate detail. So precise and elegant is his work that even today, hanging on the walls of the most prestigious museums and art galleries...