Historical Detective Novels

‘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 …

“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, …

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 …

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 …

RED MONEY That’s what the gypsy woman called it. ‘Red money because it is tainted with blood!’ declared Mother Cockleshell, between her bouts of fortune telling amidst the Romany caravans parked in A …

In this elegant drama, Anna Katharine Green, one of the greatest mystery writers of all time, weaves a narrative with her usual consummate skill, and portrays her characters with exceptional sympathy …

I, for one, shouldn’t be sorry to go. She is getting too impossible!” “She is!” put in Anita; “every day she pounds us worse! I’d like to kill her!” The fierce words and would-be menacing glance of t …

In 1717, Chika’s greed leads him to the lairs of his village’s most-feared god, Alaogbaga. His pledge to the god is simple enough: ‘Protect me and make me rich, then take my life after fifteen years’ …

When his parents leave him alone in his house for the weekend, a teenager can’t get a woman off his mind. When he turns to a visitor for advice, the motto ‘Show don’t tell’ comes into play—vvwith dis …