Historical Detective Novels

HER room was on the ground floor of the house we mutually inhabited, and mine directly above it, so that my opportunities for seeing her were limited to short glimpses of her auburn head as she leane …

Arsene Lupin is a witty confidence man and burglar, the Sherlock Holmes of crime. The poor and innocent have nothing to fear from him; often they profit from his spontaneous generosity. The rich and …

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 …

The Buntings are an elderly London couple who have fallen on hard times. They take in a lodger with the strange name of Mr. Sleuth, who pays handsomely for their shabby rooms. He seems to be a perfec …

Fallout continues from Jennie’s impersonation of the Princess von Steinheimer at the Duchess of Chiselhurst’s Ball—with a detective now on the trail of the impersonator! Fourth in the Jennie Baxter s …

The murder of two brothers at the same time. though six hundred miles apart, is only the first of many mysteries surrounding Ravensdene Court. How could the two brothers have been murdered when they …

Any reasonable summary of this book’s plot would give away too much of the mystery it describes, so suffice it to say that it is a definite ‘page-turner.’ Right from the first chapter, when we learn …

Cleek is a master of disguise, an able assistant to the head of Scotland Yard, and a former criminal. Hanshew’s best-known creation was the consulting detective Hamilton Cleek, known as ‘the man of t …

  The year 146 B.C. was an annus mirabilis in the development of Roman dominion. Of course it had long been a foregone conclusion that Carthage and Corinth must fall before her, but the actual t …

From hunting pickpockets in London omnibuses and ghosts in Hesse Square, Sergeant Watters and Detective Silver are led into the notorious Wild Geese public house, and a tangled mystery that involves …