Historical Detective Novels

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 …

Bruce Attleton dazzled London’s literary scene with his first two novels but his early promise did not bear fruit. His wife Sybilla is a glittering actress, unforgiving of Bruce’s failure, and the co …

Be riveted by the wit and wisdom of British Roman Catholic priest, Father Brown, as he solves crimes in singular style using logical deduction as an art form. This volume includes these short stories …

A GREAT MURDER MYSTERY! There may be folk in the world to whom the finding of a dead man, lying grim and stark by the roadside, with the blood freshly run from it and making ugly patches of crimson o …

This volume presents some of Conan Doyle s unduly neglected masterworks. Each begins in a quietly factual way, making all the more dramatic the crescendo of fear and puzzlement that ensues as each ne …

I spent a miserable night. I went to bed early, and lay awake till daybreak. The hideous nightmare of the green ray kept me awake for many nights to come. The General agreed with me that we must wast …

‘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 …

Gabriel Oak is a young shepherd. With the savings of a frugal life, and a loan, he has leased and stocked a farm. He falls in love with a newcomer eight years his junior, Bathsheba Everdene, a proud …

“Not nervous, are you?” he asked, and there was a sneer in his voice. “Not very, ” said the other coolly. “I suppose the fellows are in that shack?” Carlo laughed softly. “There are no others, ” he s …

The Leavenworth Case (1878), subtitled A Lawyer’s Story, is an American detective novel and the first novel by Anna Katharine Green. Set in New York City, it concerns the murder of a retired merchant …