Historical Detective Novels

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 …

‘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 …

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.  This work includes the followi …

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 …

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 …

“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 …

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 Adventure of the Devil’s Foot is a short Sherlock Holmes detective story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was published in 1910 and set in 1897 taking place in Cornwall where Sherlock Holmes …

After his wife’s murder, and after the murderer gets off due to a quirk in the law, Paul disappears. His friends rapidly grow concerned — is he dead, too? Run away? Or is he planning something sinis …

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 …