Historical Detective Novels

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Written originally in 1892, The Big Bow Mystery is supposedly the earliest example of a full-length locked-room mystery. The action begins as one The Big Bow Mystery by Israel Zangwill wasn’t the fir …

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 …

The well-trained servants glided about the dining-room in the noiseless fashion peculiar to their class. It was a large perfectly-appointed room, filled with priceless pictures, bronzes and old furni …

Anna Green was an early 20th century novelist. She was one of the first authors to write detective stories in America. Her stories are known for their well thought out plots and their legal accuracy. …

‘The Beetle’ (1897) tells the story of a fantastical creature, ‘born of neither god nor man, ‘ with supernatural and hypnotic powers, who stalks British politician Paul Lessingham through fin de siec …