Historical Detective Novels

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. …

The Foreign Office detective sat down on the edge of the table. Das E-Book The Avenger wird angeboten von idb und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert: historischer Roman, historisch, Roman, R …

“Another gripping novel from Classic Detective Presents”…When the student of medicine, Richard Bracquemont, decided to move into room #7 of the small Hotel Stevens, Rue Alfred Stevens (Paris 6), thre …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Little pig Robinson was a charming little fellow; pinky white with small blue eyes, fat cheeks and a double chin, and a turned-up nose, with a real silver ring in it. Robinson could see that ring if …

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 …

What would you do if you opened a package to find a man’s head? What would you do if the headless corpse had been swapped for a case of bullion? What would you do if you knew a brutal murderer was ou …