Historical Detective Novels

Marquand’s final novel featuring Mr. Moto, set in Japan shortly after the Korean War. Jack Rhyce is an American secret agent in Japan, hunting a Russian agent. He’s travelling with a female American …

A winding adventure that begins in an exotic, teasing location. Richard Austin Freeman introduces the reader to the delights of an extraordinary jewel heist. Hollis is a retired soap manufacturer, ri …

Robert Bolles, an ex-US Navy man, finds himself mixed up in the efforts of a Japanese agent, and a couple of Vichy French agents, who are allied with a German agent, all trying to recover a secret de …

The Moonstone was described by T. S. Eliot as ‘the first and greatest of English detective novels.’ Published in 1868, it is one of the two books (with The Woman in White) for which Collins is most f …

A highly complicated plot, with cliff-hangers, intense back stories, very bad mothers and very good mothers. Emile Gaboriau does not dissapoint with this classic mystery-thriller, guaranteed to keep …

First appearing in the pages of Cosmopolitan magazine, Craig Kennedy was one of the most popular detectives of the early twentieth century, and Arthur B. Reeve’s stories featuring the scientific sleu …

They were five strangers on a fogbound train— a psychiatrist’s pretty secretary, an agitated young man a tweedy lady with a deep voice a stockbrockerish businessman and an eel-like ‘spiv.’ One was br …

Wilson Hitchings, who works at his uncle’s Shanghai-based trading company and bank, is sent to Hawaii to investigate a problem with the company’s branch there. He discovers a currency smuggling opera …

Sir John Mortmain turned over the Sunday papers idly in search of some item of possible interest. It was one of those perfect mornings at the end of June, without the semblance of a cloud in the sky …

When Dr Raymond Ferens moves to a practice at Milham in the Moor in North Devon, he and his wife are enchanted with the beautiful hilltop village lying so close to moor and sky. At first, they see on …