Historical Detective Novels

The House on the Borderland is a supernatural horror novel by British fantasist William Hope Hodgson. The novel is a hallucinatory account of a recluse’s stay at a remote house, and his experiences o …

During the night of the great fog of 1897, five members of London’s The Grill club listen to the telling of three interconnected stories. An American gentleman begins by relating how he had gotten lo …

Ed Jenkins, the Phantom Crook, invades a slimy web of crime to get loose an innocent victim. Classic pulp fiction by the creator of Perry Mason! Includes an introduction by Karl Wurf. …

An elite, rich, and spunky older lady rents a country house for the summer along with her skittish Irish maid and her niece. Some servants sort of come with the property but most soon abandon their n …

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 …

While trailing a suspect, Nick witnesses a woman being stabbed, which propels him into a new case involving Doc Helstone’s ruthless gang—and stolen diamonds. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …