Historical Detective Novels

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. …

“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 …

Émile Gaboriau was a renowned 19th century French writer who wrote a number of mystery classics that helped revolutionize the genre. This is one of his most famous works. …

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 …

On the surface, the crime seems simple. A bank’s secure safe is robbed. One of the two men who holds the key must be guilty. One key-holder is the bank’s owner who lives above the bank with his famil …

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 …

Yes I’m not mistaken at all _It’s the same woman _ whispered the tall, good-looking young Englishman in a well-cut navy suit as he stood with his friend, a man some ten years older than himself, at o …

Frank Lucius Packard (1877-1942), a Canadian Novelist and railway engineer, wrote the Jimmie Dale mysteries and other works. Doors of the Night is quite possibly his greatest mystery novel, and highl …

Though he did work for a small-town newspaper, Ken Svederup had been around, and to him the expense-paid trip he had won for a front-page news beat seemed pretty phony. But never look a gift horse… …