Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

Marian Stamford moves to her dream home: a snug little cottage in a Dorset village where nothing ever happens. She only wants a quiet life, a home for her unlikely family of two nieces and one troublesome kitten.Before long, things take a darker turn....

The White Lady introduces yet another extraordinary heroine from Jacqueline Winspear, creator of the best-selling Maisie Dobbs series. This heart-stopping novel, set in Post WWII Britain in 1947, follows the coming of age and maturity of former wartime operative Elinor White--veteran of two wars,...

Sherlock Holmes delves into the world of early cinema as motion picture groundbreaker Eadweard Muybridge begs him to solve a mystery that will keep you up all night.1896. A new client at Baker Street claims he's being threatened via the new art of the...

Lady Violet has decided that life in noisy, crowded, busy London is simply not her cup of tea. Her search for a rural property to purchase must be set aside when she learns that Hugh St. Sevier has been accused of murder. Worse, the...

Twelve sensational Sherlock Holmes short stories from a bestselling master of the genreMaverick detective Sherlock Holmes and his faithful chronicler Dr. John Watson return in twelve thrilling short stories.The iconic duo find themselves swiftly drawn into a series of puzzling and sinister events: an...

Fancy Anders goes undercover at an aircraft plant to solve the murder of Rosie the Riveter in the first of three thrilling mysteries by Road to Perdition creator Max Allan Collins.Fall 1942. When her Hollywood private detective daddy is called back to uniform, Fancy...

Inspector Duff works with the Scotland Yard. He is called in to investigate a mysterious murder that occurred at a famous local London hotel. A deaf old man, traveling on pleasure trip from America with his daughter and granddaughter, has been murdered during the...

Max Ratek, the notorious Michelangelo of Wall Street takeover artists, quietly plots a takeover battle for a Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio headquartered tire company. Ratek's plan goes awry when the tire company's investor relations professional, who is battling the ravages of MS, prematurely discovers Ratek's...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER AWARD 2019Hamburg, 1948 In a routine operation, Chief Inspector Frank Stave is shot down. He survives, but transfers from the murder commission to the office combatting the black market. There, Stave is confronted with an enigmatic case: Trummerfrau,...

Berlin, October 1933. Max Dienst has returned to the city he last knew as a student. He has been asked to cover the elections to the Reichstag. A colleague on the paper mentions the case of Geli Raubal, a young singer from Vienna who...

Biddy Woodson, one of twelve siblings in a sharecropper family living in 1934 Oklahoma, has learned how to sass and vinegar her way through life, even when it takes a bit of cussing to get through those hellish stacks of after-meal dishes. Trouble blows...

Ein verschneites Landhaus, ein vermisster Butler und ein Fall zur Weihnachtszeit ... Olive und Jasper waren sich noch nie n臧er - bis auf eine Sache. Jasper ist immer noch verschwiegen, was sein h舫figes Verschwinden aus der feinen Gesellschaft angeht. Da die Feiertage n臧er r?ken...

It's January of 1704, and Matthew Corbett continues his mission to Italy, accompanied by Hudson Greathouse and former enemy Professor Fell. They seek Brazio Valeriani and information about the mirror created by his father, the sorcerer Ciro. Legend claims the mirror can be used...

After falling from an apple tree, Agnes's bizarre behavior escalates from 'merely eccentric, ' to 'near bloodshed, ' as she attempts to thwart city hall's efforts to euthanize a displaced carnival tiger. When she unwittingly witnesses a burglary, Agnes is determined to expose the...

A spirited lady detective. A buttoned-up spy for the Crown. A steamy marriage of convenience that threatens to lay bare their secrets...and their hearts.When her overprotective family tries to curtail her activities, spirited and independent debutante Fiona Garrity decides marriage is her surest way...

We ve saved the best for last! Follow Dr. Sam Hawthorne through the war years, a time that he called the beginning of two of the most eventful years of my life. The final collection of Dr. Sam Hawthorne stories covers 1940-1944 and includes...

A reluctant lady sleuth finds she's investigating her own family.1881, Sussex. With a drowned husband-the second love lost-an overbearing family, no longed-for child, and the responsibility of a huge baroque mansion, it's not surprising Lady Helena Whitcombe is overwhelmed. When attractive, mysterious, French physician...

Do you ever really know your family?Lady Helena Whitcombe is adjusting to widowhood, trying to reconcile her family loyalties with her desires, when her artist sister Odelia makes a startling suggestion. Why not make her mark on the house that's now all hers, by...

Do you ever really know your family?Lady Helena Whitcombe is adjusting to widowhood, trying to reconcile her family loyalties with her desires, when her artist sister Odelia makes a startling suggestion. Why not make her mark on the house that's now all hers, by...

Witting's second Inspector Charlton mystery, first published in 1937, is set in Paulsfield (clearly a fictional Petersfield in Hampshire). It is a market day and there is much noise and bustle. A bull decides it is time to liberate itself and goes on the...

Throughout the whole of human history, people would kill each other in the name of God. They did not know that the God they fought for was the God of Power. The 11th century is known for two historical religious initiatives - the Crusades...

Ludlow, England, 1501When Thomas Berrington finds the bones of a human hand in his room in Ludlow Castle he knows he must confront whoever left them. Except when Thomas tracks the man down he has been murdered, and Thomas believes the killer to be...

Ludlow, England, 1501When Thomas Berrington finds the bones of a human hand in his room in Ludlow Castle he knows he must confront whoever left them. Except when Thomas tracks the man down he has been murdered, and Thomas believes the killer to be...

Author: Edward D. HochISBN-10: 1885941196ISBN-13: 9781885941190Publisher: Crippen & Landru PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/05/2000Pages: 220Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.68lbsSize: 9.03h x 6.08w x 0.56dReview Citation(s): Booklist 12/15/1997 pg. 686

What is reincarnation? Sissy Holmes doesn't have a clue until a hypnotist (soon to be dead) delves too deeply into her psyche. The voice inside her head says he's Sherlock Holmes and wants to investigate the murder. Sissy thinks she must be crazy.As events...

In these six adventures, Holmes solves cases in alternate universes and alongside famous historical and fictional figures. In the title story, Watson is slandered by mysterious forces who spread the rumor that the good doctor pushed Holmes off of Reichenbach Falls. In other cases,...

A banker finds a photograph of a woman who later appears to him on the street. Could she be leading him to an inexorable appointment with fate? Does she even exist?The Adeptus Exemptus and Imperator of the Esoteric Society of the Roseate Morn is...

Enough time has passed. Dr John Watson can finally reopen his tin box of chronicles. In this astonishing collection, a treasure trove of new accounts of Sherlock Holmes's extraordinary skills finally comes to light.What is the connection between murderous attacks on a colonel's wife...

The woman looked at me, anguish brimming in her eyes. I picked up the note she'd left and read the scrawl: HELP!!! Then: Mom. Followed by a number. A gripping and heartbreaking read, based on the true story of the Jonestown cult, one of...

The famous detective returns in a thrilling anthology of 12 Sherlock short stories spanning Holmes's entire career, penned by Peter Swanson, Cara Black, James Lovegrove and more. A brand-new collection of twelve Sherlock Holmes short stories which spans Holmes's entire career, from the early...

Sherlock Holmes delves into the world of early cinema as motion picture groundbreaker Eadweard Muybridge begs him to solve a mystery that will keep you up all night... 1896. A new client at Baker Street claims he's being threatened via the new art of...

Why Meiringen? Sherlock Holmes readers have always asked, why did Holmes go to Meiringen? And did Moriarty follow him there? And if Holmes did not die in the Falls, what happened next? The familiar stories tell us little. For the first time this book...

THE CONSEQUENCES OF MURDER is a lush family drama of the 1920s, involving bootlegging, blackmail, and ultimately murder.The first world war and the influenza virus of 1918 ripped families apart. George, Susan, and Thomas Latimer were devastated over the loss of their parents. Taken...

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 eager...

Legendary father and son Texas Rangers Larry and John Slade, brought law and order to Central Texas for over 72 years.Thundering through the pages of American history, between 1835 and 1916, the old-school tough Slade men came to occupy an intriguing place in the...

Hana Ziegler is a fourteen-year-old child prodigy. But on September 1, 1939, as Hitler invades Poland and World War II begins, she is being taken to the Hollenschloss Institute to be euthanized.Silke Hartenstein is a sixteen-year-old beauty who has graced the covers of German...

Victoria Sedgewick's acceptance of a private case for a wealthy lady leads her into deeper danger than she ever imagined. But it isn't only her own life at peril... When her infant son is drawn into the dangerous game, Victoria enlists the help of...

Jasper's work on his new airship is anything but smooth. And when an outstanding rival project appears from the other side of the world, his efforts border the impossible.With the Engineers Order's approval and an unexpected addition to the team to help them, airship...

FROM USA TODAY & MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR J. ROBERT KENNEDYWHEN SATAN WHISPERSA KINGDOM CRIES OUT FOR ITS SAVIORA darkness is spreading across the Kingdom of France, scores turning against God and embracing the teachings of Satan.For he has found a portal and now...

Londinium, 1st century AD. Must every slave die?Fabius Gentilius Scorteus is a Britannic Celt, the richest man in Londinium. But he desperately wants to become a Roman citizen. He calls upon his Greek slave Ikaros of Apollonius.Ikaros was once a soldier, nobleman and engineer,...

John Jasper, a choirmaster and opium addict at Cloisterham Cathedral, lusts after his pupil, Rosa Bud, who is engaged to his nephew, Edwin Drood. Rosa has also caught the eye of the high-spirited and hot-tempered Neville Landless. Landless quickly becomes Drood's hated rival for...

Lucy Graham has just married Sir Michael Audley, a middle-aged, rich, and kind widower. But Sir Michael's nephew, Robert, is suspicious of the fact that no one knows much about the new Lady Audley's past. Robert's friend, George, arrives to stay with the family...

A GRIPPING HISTORICAL THRILLER SET IN INVERNESS IN THE WAKE OF THE 1746 BATTLE OF CULLODEN. 'This slice of historical fiction takes you on a wild ride' THE TIMES After Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drummossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally...

Miss Matilda Hayward has been assigned her first book review for the Women's Journal newspaper and she is very much enjoying Mr Linton Turner's novel, The Pyjama Girl Mystery, until it comes to life. When a young lady is found murdered and left on...

Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, has spent years unraveling his family's tragic history. But the secrets of his past will come to light in this gripping new historical mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of What the Devil Knows. March, 1815. The Bourbon...

A maniac murders with ancient technologyOne young Native stands in his wayClifford Gustafson is a young Native man on a mission while pursuing a degree in anthropology in 1970s Minnesota. His best friend and love interest is brutally murdered in cold blood. Clifford is...

A maniac murders with ancient technologyOne young Native stands in his wayClifford Gustafson is a young Native man on a mission while pursuing a degree in anthropology in 1970s Minnesota. His best friend and love interest is brutally murdered in cold blood. Clifford is...

In the 3rd book of the Simon & Elizabeth Mysteries, Elizabeth Tudor is accused of treason and imprisoned in the Tower of London. Most, including Elizabeth herself and her old friend Simon Maldon, believe she will never leave the place alive.Loyal to a fault,...

Helen Meeker is back and has less than thirty days to stop the execution of an innocent pastor who has unbelievably confessed to being a Nazi spy. While on a case that has dynamic implications to uncovering an espionage ring operating on American and...

Hard-Boiled Detective Series Uncovers Bones, Murder & History.Paleontologist turned private investigator, Harry Przewalski, excavates the dirty underbelly of people's lives, unearthing sexual betrayals, treachery, fraud and murder buried beneath the science of petrified shards, skin and bones. Ultimately, he must face a brutal killing...