Historical Detective Novels

Roger Sloane is a young American living on the Cote d’Azur during the late 1920’s. He meets an old classmate who is wandering Europe after inheriting a title in England. Together the two friends, alo …

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 …

“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 …

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 …

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 …

“Another gripping novel from Classic Detective Presents”…When an elderly pawnbroker is murdered in the London parish of Paddington, a young, down on his luck writer is accused of the crime. But then …

Jennie is called upon to impersonate the Princess von Steinheimer at the Duchess of Chiselhurst’s Ball. Third in the Jennie Baxter series. Includes an introduction by John Betancourt. …

The story takes place at the end of the nineteenth century at the World’s Fair in Chicago. Carl Masters is one of a legion of secret service men – employed to keep the multitudes safe, and be on the …

“Another gripping novel from Classic Detective Presents”…When Mr. Thomas Lyne, poet, poseur. and owner of Lyne’s Emporium insults a cashier, Odette Rider, she resigns. Having summoned detective Jack …