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 …

When I say I am called Valmont the name will convey no impression to the reader one way or another. My occupation is that of private detective in London but if you ask any policeman in Paris who Valm …

A respectable young attorney in New York City, Otis Landon has barely settled into his new living quarters when an incident occurs in a neighboring apartment that he cannot, in good conscience, ignor …

A classic late 19th-century US detective story!Cobb is remembered best for his humorous stories of Kentucky and is part of the American literary regionalism school. These stories were collected first …

Thomas W. Hanshew was an actor and writer who wrote detective stories featuring Hamilton Cleek, ‘the man of the forty faces’ who was skillfully able to disguise himself. Cleek was a British detective …

A rich widow…A disappearance….and Mr. Dark, a detective lawyer’s clerk. …

Florence, 1553. An assassin sent by Arma Dei disappears into the night, with him a collection of heretical art and writings. For five centuries the satchel, containing sketches and writings by Leonar …

An early detective story by a woman writer about a sewing girl in a rich man’s house who is abducted. The housekeeper reports the crime and the detective in charge doesn’t understand why it is impera …

Bulldog Drummond is a British detective, created by H. C. Mc Neile and published under his pen name ‘Sapper’. After an unsuccessful one-off appearance as a policeman in The Strand Magazine, the chara …

When Harry Marsland was caught in a sudden down pour he sought shelter at Cliff Farm. Met at the door by a young woman clearly expecting someone else he is only too glad to get inside to wait out the …