Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

Caught in the explosion of the Hammersmith Mill in London, Bow Street Runner Daniel Swann rushes to help any survivors only to find the mill's owner dead of an apparent gunshot. Even though the owner's daughter, Agatha Montgomery, mourns his death, it seems there...

A visit to relatives in Newport is supposed to give Sylvia time to rest and consider the latest revelation about Miles' past. But when a picnic hosted by the local yacht club ends with a mysterious death, Sylvia is drawn into a dangerous investigation.Author:...

Caution: rough waters ahead!Let's sail to America, Desmond suggested. It will be fun, he promised. Except, no matter where Rosemary goes, murder seems to follow, even to the middle of the Atlantic Ocean!The journey was supposed to be part of the adventure, and what...

A storm. A disappearance. A race against time . . . Mustique is in a state of breathless calm as tropical storm C ristobal edges towards it across the Atlantic. Most villa owners have escaped the island but a few young socialites remain, unwilling...

1866. On a train bound for Portsmouth, an elegant woman shares a first-class compartment with a gentleman in a celebratory mood. Giles Blanchard reveals his lecherous side as the journey gets underway, but he will never reach his home on the Isle of Wight...

Bored by his Pinkerton mission, twenty-year-old Cian Lonergan gets thrown into the deep end of a mystery involving the deaths of several Union Army officers. Undercover and unwelcomed by his regiment, the young captain discovers a plot in the command structure that may change...

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A baffling murder and a missing detective.When a young woman is murdered on Tower Bridge, former spy Augusta Peel expects Scotland Yard to call on her for help.But no call comes.Meanwhile, Augusta is preoccupied with the success of her Bloomsbury bookshop. It's doing so...

Author: Anna Lee HuberISBN-10: 8200033864ISBN-13: 9798200033867Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/08/2014Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.15lbs

When a beer barrel containing the body of a man is delivered to the door of 221b Baker Street, an intoxicating new adventure begins for Sherlock Holmes. Together with his faithful companion, Dr John Watson, Holmes travels north to Burton-upon-Trent to investigate the poisoning...

Louisa Stapleton has been disgraced and banished from Society. She wants to return to defend herself and seize the life she desires. Her father has obtained the help of the one man she sees as her nemesis. Arriving at the house party, she has...

Join Holmes and Watson on eleven original adventures, spanning their earliest collaboration to their service to the Crown in the Great War. Revisit A Study in Scarlet, return to The Copper Beeches, and learn the shocking truth behind the Bogus Laundry Affair. There will...

WW II HOME FRONT ROMANTIC COMEDY WITH A STRONG SEASONING OF DANGER AND MYSTERY "Fast-paced, rich in humor, excitement and romance." -Williamsburg Tribune Only a few months earlier, the young woman now known as Jane Smith had lived a life of luxury and privilege...

The new novel by NBA All-Star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, starring brothers Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes. It is 1872, and a series of gruesome murders is the talk of London. Mycroft Holmes--now twenty-six and a force to be reckoned with at the War Office--has no interest...

Does the mystery behind a recently discovered medieval manuscript hold the secret to the survival of the Jewish people? Russell Woolfe, a faded TV producer, is struggling with his father's death. Deeply uncomfortable with his own Jewish identity, he is torn between anger with...

Plague howls through the realm, pandemonium rages across the kingdom, and Asylum City writhes dying in the throes of brutal civil war.Enter Sir Luther Slythe Krait, a cold-hearted mercenary whose lone desire is to slink incognito through the backwaters and alleyways of civilization. But...

If you are one who has ever suspected, even in part, that there are, truly, monsters of both human and unhuman kind shadowing the earth, then do, I implore, proceed into my story-where awaits that confirmation. Peruse with the utmost vigilance, however, and should...

A gothic tale of murder and corruption set in 1840s Victorian London, taking inspiration from our most famous 19th century writers. The 1840s. Railway Baron Sir Martin Malprelate has been laying waste to the warren of Camden; buying up houses and clearing streets for...

Author: John StraleyISBN-10: 1641295279ISBN-13: 9781641295277Publisher: Soho CrimeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/14/2023Pages: 216Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.60d

A stolen valuable is just the beginning of a trail of strange events Junio has to uncover in this skilfully plotted historical mystery set in 2nd century Britain."A mastery of period detail matches the engrossing plot . . . Brilliant " Publishers Weekly Starred...

From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, a soaring, soulful novel about a folk musician who rises to fame across our changing times - "A robust, atmospheric coming-of-age story." --People Before Jodie Rattler became a star, she was a girl growing up in St. Louis....

Bestselling author Patricia Rice offers the next book in her Regency historical mystery series...Wycliffe Manor, a magnet for murder... On a long-delayed errand to remote Wycliffe Manor, ex-Lieutenant Jack de Sackville stumbles across the murdered body of London dandy, Basil Culpepper, in the hedgerow,...

The third book in the Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney Mystery series, which finds the amateur sleuths facing their most daunting challenge yet: preventing the murder of the imperious Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Someone is trying to kill Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Esteemed aunt...

A mysterious relic. Bones that do not belong. A Church in chaos. Settling into life near Ludlow, Thomas Berrington wants only to move the bones of his ancestors to land he owns. But while excavating them, Thomas and his children make a shocking discovery....

Millionaires, a mini dachshund, and dreams of old Manhattan inspire a writer to leave monotony behind and follow a 1930s murder mystery.Rick Gordon is accustomed to losing. He decides it's time for a change after finding himself single and out of work again with...

A missing family heirloom - and one of the family stole it. In the spring of 1812, Piers Withan is dragged from his beloved Oxford to be the new Viscount Petteril. Burdened by responsibilities he doesn't want and the remnants of a family who...

What if there existed a secret people, the secret people part of a secret nation, the secret People of the Nation secretly living right here among us in 21st century America? When soon-to-be high-schoolers Michael Costa and his best friend L.T. Haymaker discover that...

Author: Renee PatrickISBN-10: 0765381877ISBN-13: 9780765381873Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PLLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/13/2018Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90d

A lurid crime scene photo of a beautiful woman arrives on mystery writer Bunny Prescott's doorstep with no return address--and it's not the first time she's seen it. Fifty-five years earlier, in the summer of 1945, Ceola Bliss is a lonely twelve-year-old tomboy, mourning...

MEET DR WILLIAM GILBERT IN THIS ENTHRALLING ELIZABETHAN HISTORICAL MYSTERY.16th Century England.Dr William Gilbert enjoys the company of one of his more accomplished patients, a Jewish-born Christian convert now living in the Domus.But when the man is found dead, hanging from an impossibly high...

The "irresistible" and "compelling" first novel in the historical mystery series featuring a Welsh Benedictine monk in the twelfth century (The Washington Post). A Welsh Benedictine monk living at Shrewsbury Abbey in western England, Brother Cadfael spends much of his time tending the herbs...

Lindsey Davis has received the Crime Writer's Association Lifetime Achievement Award for her two immortal series of detective novels featuring Marcus Didius Falco and his adopted daughter, Flavia Albia. She is regarded as the finest living novelist of Ancient Rome. Here, for the first...

A shake-up in the NYPD homicide squad following a high-profile murder is bad for business for private investigator Nero Wolfe. When wealthy and popular crusader and reformer Lester Pierce is gunned down in front of his Park Avenue residence, the public outcry forces the...

An "excellent" novel that goes back to 1920s New York to reveal how the famed detective first met his incomparable sidekick (Publishers Weekly, starred review). In 1930, young Archie Goodwin comes to New York City hoping for a bit of excitement. In his third...

Archie Goodwin goes undercover on the waterfront in a new mystery by the author who "does a masterly job with the Wolfe legacy" (Booklist). Archie Goodwin is not overly fond of Theodore Horstmann, who takes care of the orchids on the rooftop of Nero...

In 1696, Christopher Ellis, a young, hot-tempered gentleman, is sent to the Tower of London, but not as a prisoner. A sudden twist of fate has led him there to assist the renowned scientist Sir Isaac Newton, who as Warden of the Royal Mint...

Has Jack the Ripper returned?Summer 1901, and the great Pan-American Exposition welcomes the world to Buffalo, New York-Queen of the Lakes . . . the Electric City. Eight million visitors throng the bustling boomtown-all of them looking for a good time.While the Pan-American blazes...

Sage Adair and his multi-ethnic companions discover, in their fight for social justice, that what you eat might kill and has. Their effort to stop the poisoning takes the reader on a wild ride alongside the story characters who cross international borders, are shanghaied...

Miss Tiffany Woodall must sleuth the slaying of a footman to clear her beloved's name in the second Lady Librarian mystery, in the vein of Deanna Raybourn and perfect for fans of Bridgerton. 1784 England. Officially hired as the librarian for the Duchess of...

"Brennan's idiosyncratic prose is fascinatingly textured" - Publishers Weekly"A series of grisly murders disrupts Victorian London's covert gay scene in Brennan's historical thriller" (Kirkus Reviews), stirring an obsessive hunt for clues and culprits in this "rich, dark mystery" (Kirkus Reviews) from the Lambda Literary...

In the early- and mid-1880s, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the forerunner of the modern IRA, waged a bombing campaign that terrorized the citizens of London for more than four years. Explosives were detonated in such places as the Tower of London, the House of...

Cottonwood (2004) was a huge step forward for the burgeoning king of noir Scott Phillips, and his dark and gritty take on the western earned him starred reviews and praise from crime masters Michael Connelly and George Pelecanos. That novel featured the Kansas town...

Has Jack the Ripper returned?Summer 1901, and the great Pan-American Exposition welcomes the world to Buffalo, New York-Queen of the Lakes . . . the Electric City. Eight million visitors throng the bustling boomtown-all of them looking for a good time.While the Pan-American blazes...

The thrilling new novel from the acclaimed author of Murder on Mustique, based on the childhood described in her international bestseller Lady in Waiting. January 1950. Lady Anne Coke, daughter of the 5th Earl of Leicester, is in Scunthorpe on a business trip when...

In 1896, the isolated and vast state of Idaho is a haven for the polygamous splinter group called The Kingdom of Glory, which is hiding more than their outlawed practice of plural marriage.At the compound called Cedar Creek, the prophet is hoping to increase...

First published as Twist of Fate under A. C. Koning. Summer, 1937. Frederick Rowlands' peaceful holiday in Cornwall is derailed when a film star is found dead in his hotel. The suspicious nature of Dolores La Mar's death points to murder and Rowlands soon...

A young Native American has died mysteriously in the remote back country of the California Delta, several days' journey from his home in Yerba Buena. Why was he there, and what killed him? Was it some terrible new disease which might threaten the entire...

A man caught mid life-amidst a life unfinished, betwixt love and what he loves, amongst the ghosts and shadows of his own creations, and between a rock and a hard place. What drives John Finn to write are his own frustrations; and what he...

Something sinister is afoot, but where? The arrival of a gun-toting stranger in a little Western town causes quite a stir. Who is this man? What is he after? And most importantly, which side of the law is he on? Jim Wood likes the...

The truth is stranger than fiction for Albert Campion in this gripping mystery where murder, detective novels and the supernatural collide. 1946, London. The eagerly anticipated new detective novel from Albert Campion's godsibling, bestselling author Evadne Childe, is proving to be another runaway success....