Historical Detective Novels

Meet Trygve Yamamura—judo expert, Samurai sword connoisseur, and private detective. He is a triple threat to San Francisco crime. These combined skills enable him to keep his own head attached while …

The setting: Hollywood. The year: 1943. When death strikes at the austere, castle-like home of Earl Falkoner, an erratic designer of Hollywood sets and a would-be playwright, his hired writers and hi …

Calvin Gates, a young American, is travelling to Mongolia to join up with an archaeology expedition. He encounters Mr. Moto on a ship travelling from Japan to Korea. As his travels continue, he finds …

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 …

‘Well, by the Great Catamaran! I think it’s the most footle business I ever heard of! A regulation, clinker-built, angle-iron, sunk-hinge family feud, carried on by two women! Women! conducting a feu …

‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham’s Magazine in 1841. It has been recognized as the first modern detective story; Poe referred to it as one of hi …

Cleek is poacher-turned-gamekeeper, a master criminal who decides to turn straight and work for Scotland Yard after being stricken by the sight of a lovely, innocent young woman whose jewels he was a …

“I think Labour Day is an awfully funny holiday, ” remarked Patty. “It doesn’t seem to mean anything. It doesn’t commemorate anybody’s birth or death or heroism.” “It’s like Bank Holiday in England, …

This historical novel is based upon the true story of 5-year old Caty Sage, who dissapeared from her family’s wilderness farm in 1792.  It is the story of her father’s incessant quest to find he …

Dundee, 1860s. Sergeant George Watters and his team investigate the murder of a local banker, found dead on the 13th tee of a local golf course. Illicit prizefighters, merchants and prostitutes …