Historical Detective Novels

The observer might have fancied it a robbers’ den, but he would have been wrong; for the inhabitants were fairly honest. The Hotel de Perou was one of those refuges, growing scarcer and more scarce e …

Like ‘The Mystery of the Yellow Room’, ‘The Secret of the Night’ is a Joseph Rouletabille mystery written by Gaston Leroux in 1913. Gaston Leroux, perhaps best known as the author of ‘The Phantom of …

Three attempts on Russian General Trebass’s his life have failed, but the Czar is determined to keep him alive. The Czar assigns the redoubtable, French detective reporter, Rouletabille to the case. …

Dickens is considered to be one of the greatest British writers. He was a social activist who wrote plays and novels during the Victorian period. His most famous novels include Tale of Two Cities, Ol …

Somewhere in London a madman was at large. And then one night there came a knock at the door of a quiet lodging house in the Marylebone Road. . . . This novel, based on the Jack the Ripper murders, w …

Styles was Christie’s first published novel. It introduced Hercule Poirot, Inspector (later, Chief Inspector) Japp, and Arthur Hastings. Poirot, a Belgian refugee of the Great War, is settling in Eng …

Angelically beautiful Jean Briggerland is a sociopathic criminal, so lovely that none can see her guilt — even in connection with the most blatant crimes! Can Jack Glover, best friend and lawyer to …

A Poor Wise Man mixes romantic fiction with political analysis. This engrossing story begins, ‘The city turned its dreariest aspect toward the railway on blackened walls, irregular and ill-paved stre …

Arthur Morrison was a British writer best known for novels about London’s East End, as well as detective fiction works that featured the character Martin Hewitt. …

A rather interesting and quite complex classic mystery encompassing a murder which occurs in a quiet cathedral town and involving a myriad of characters all of which keep the reader quite puzzled thr …