Historical Detective Novels

She sat up in bed and a cold shiver ran down her spine. Somebody was in the room! She reached out to turn on the light and could have shrieked, for she touched a hand, a cold, small hand that was res …

The mystery has to do with the murderous rites of the ‘Brotherhood of the Dew, ‘ a superstitious sect of the Zulus on the borders of Natal, who had a horrible way of sacrificing human beings in order …

The narrative begins with the auction by the US Government of fictional Spencer Island, located 460 miles off the California coast. The island is uninhabited and there are only two bidders, William W …

Wealthy Bohemian artist Rowland Sinclair and his lively companions are sailing homewards to Australia on the RMS Aquitania. The ship embodies luxury and civilised respite from the tensions of the Dep …

While visiting the United States, the wife of young British aristocrat Lord Waldmere goes missing in New York City under mysterious circumstances. He tell his story to Nick Carter, and Nick accepts t …

‘The Mystery of the Sycamore’ is an early type of detective story, falling somewhere between Conan Doyle’s genius Sherlock Holmes and Hammett’s tough-guy Sam Spade. It contains elements of the Gothic …

‘The Moon Rock’ (1922) 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 th …

The first of Cottrel Hoe’s tales of Jennie Baxter, a Victorial journalist-sleuth, as Jennie seeks a job at the Daily Bugle—but has to prove herself by out-scooping the men. Includes an introduction b …

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ( 1859 – 1930 ) was a Scottish physician and writer most famous for his stories about a detective named Sherlock Holmes.  The stories about Sherlock Holmes have made his n …

“Another gripping novel from Classic Detective Presents”…Trent’s Last Case is a detective novel written by E.C. Bentley and first published in 1913. Its central character reappeared subsequently in t …