Historical Detective Novels

When an old professor of art informs a museum curator that a piece his institution owns is actually half of a full statue—whose other section is housed at the Louvre—an old crime begins to unravel. …

Ann Lebrick cheerfully accepted an assignment to photograph the ocelots of Miss Estelle Marlow. On arrival at the Marlow estate, Black Tor, where she was to stay for a week, she found herself in a br …

Valeria Brinton marries Eustace Woodville despite objections from Woodville’s family leading to disquiet for Valeria’s own family and friends.Just a few days after the wedding, various incidents lead …

In the debut of literature’s most famous sleuth, a dead man is discovered in a bloodstained room in Brixton. The only clues are a wedding ring, a gold watch, a pocket edition of Boccaccio’s Decameron …

John Gillum arrives in London from Australia apparently a wealthy man and then proceeds to cheerfully gamble his entire fortune away. During this period he cultivates the friendship of Mortimer, the …

‘Hard on the corpse, then, too. Here’s a really lovely one!’ ‘Yes, that’s a ghost mask, and beautifully ornamented. That’s to charm the dead man back to earth again.’ ‘Does he come?’ ‘They say he doe …

Mack Reynolds skilfully blends elements of pop sci-fi culture, mystery and the detective genre in his 1951 mystery. Das E-Book The Case of the Little Green Men wird angeboten von Wildside Press und w …

An artist’s work is vindictively vandalized, and the artist is found murdered in his smoking room. Gold bullion totaling 10, 000 pounds mysteriously vanishes from the ill-fated steamship Nicobar as i …

Agent Nine and the Jewel Mystery is a great story for all ages, a fun and quick read of suspense and action. The G-Man strikes again! A pulse-pounding international action mystery from the overflowin …

‘The Mystery of the Sycamore’ is an early type of detective story, falling somewhere between Conan Doyle’s genius Sherlock Holmes and Hammett’s tough-guy Sam Spade. It contains elements of the Gothic …