Historical Detective Novels

Rome, 1847. Renowned watercolourist Edward Lear convinces his pupil, Lord John Proby to accompany him on a painting tour of Sicily. After Lear suggests an adventure into the Aspromonte Mountains of C …

Inspector Joseph French faces his most perplexing case yet when a young cinema box office clerk disappears after confiding her fears to Scotland Yard. As French investigates, he uncovers a sinister p …

“Another gripping novel from Classic Detective Presents”…This classic mystery will keep you hooked till the end. After Nita Selim is murdered during a high society bridge party in the town of Hamilto …

When Walter Raleigh, a down-on-his-luck English gentleman-adventurer, rescues a man in Arminia from three attackers, he throws in with his new-found friend—and suddenly finds himself employed, for th …

When businessman Horace Warren hires attorney Perry Mason to investigate threats against his wife, Mason finds himself pulled into a complex web of blackmail, stolen cash, and murder. As Mason works …

The third novel in the Charlie Chan series.set almost exclusively in California (as opposed to Chan’s native Hawaii), and tells the story of the former head of Scotland Yard, a detective who is pursu …

This contains the first 8 of the 12 stories in the published book The Man Who Knew Too Much and Other Stories. In these 8 detective thrillers, the main protagonist is Horne Fisher. (The omitted four …

Hercule Poirot takes on international intrigue as he investigates ‘the Big Four’ on an international stage. With his friend Hastings and his ‘twin brother’ to help—will it be enough to solve one of h …

That evening the down train from London deposited at the little country station of Ramsdon but a single passenger, a man of middle height, shabbily dressed, with broad shoulders and long arms and a m …

It is 1943, and the Nazis control large parts of Italy. Colonel Anselm Bernhardt devotes his attention to stealing Italian art – and having his way with Italian women – but there is one great treasur …