Historical Detective Novels

I was not the only passenger aboard the s.s. Mandalay who perceived the disturbance and wondered what it might portend and from whence proceed. A goodly number of passengers were joining the ship at …

‘The Moon Rock’ is Australian mystery writer Arthur J. Rees’ locked-room conundrum. In fact, the room — the murder scene — not only is locked from the inside, but also two hundred feet up the cold …

"Hallo! Is that Hampstead Police Station?" "Yes. Who are you?" "Detective-Inspector Chippenfield of Scotland Yard. Tell Inspector Seldon I want him, and be quick about it.&qu …

A mysterious murder on a flying express train, a wily Italian, a charming woman caught in the meshes of circumstantial evidence, a chivalrous Englishman, and a police force with a keen nose for the w …

In 1914 there were not twenty men in England who had ever heard of the island of Salissa. Even now – I am writing in the spring of 1917 – the public is very badly informed about the events which gave …

‘The Adventure of the Dying Detective’, in some editions simply titled ‘The Dying Detective’, is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.Dr. Watso …

Serapis Classics proudly presents a thrilling mystery from the creator of Charlie Chan! An American visiting London makes the mistake of checking the personals column…the ‘agony column’…and finds …

Four brilliant men have died mysteriously — and the only clue is the carved tail of a golden scorpion, left beside their bodies. The man behind the horror calls himself "The Scorpion, " an …

Soldier-of-fortune Poko Kelly runs — literally — into a girl in an alley, only to find her persued by villains. After killing two of them, he takes the girl home to her uncle…only to become embro …

Life at New Moon had changed. She must adjust herself to it. A certain loneliness must be reckoned with. Ilse Burnley, the madcap pal of seven faithful years, had gone to the School of Literature and …