Historical Detective Novels

Émile Gaboriau was a renowned 19th century French writer who wrote a number of mystery classics that helped revolutionize the genre. This is one of his most famous works. …

For cruelty was what this expert read in the knowing eyes and firm little mouth of Miss Mystery. And because of this indubitable element in her nature, he deemed her pathetic. Which shows how much sh …

When a priest is murdered, the police seek Nick Carter’s help to unravel the mystery. A classic Nickel Weekly mystery! Das E-Book Paying the Price wird angeboten von Wildside Press und wurde mit folg …

Ripped from the pages of the October, 1937 issue of Secret Agent ‘X’ magazines comes this sensational novel, The Assassins’ League! When a wealthy arms manufacturer and a powerful gang lord both kill …

THERE is no more distinguished family in England than the Blantyres of Glenallan. Its very name is a sufficient passport into the best society. Nevertheless, those who know shrug their shoulders, gla …

Tom Nelson, cynical American expatriate ‘gone native’ in China, stumbles into the path of the expansionist Japanese government’s incursion into Northern China and is catapulted out of his world-weary …

Edwin Balmer’s 1923 novel Keeban is a mystery-adventure-romance, billed as “a novel of the Underworld and the Upper”—meaning, of course, that it has High Society clashing with the criminal classes. I …

When Sergeant George Watters is assigned to a scuttling case, he thinks he can solve it in a few days. Instead, he discovers a connection to a string of burglaries of high-value shops and hotels acro …

The Morley family–a husband, his wife and her three children from a former marriage, one young ward, and a governess. Add in Giles Ware, a young man who was engaged by a family agreement to the youn …

The night of his grandfather’s mysterious death at the Cedars, Bobby Blackburn was, at least until midnight, in New York. He was held there by the unhealthy habits and companion-ships which recently …