Historical Detective Novels

Henry Beaumont keeps a renowned pack of foxhounds, quick, brave and ruthless at the kill. One December hunt, the dogs uncover more than a fox in the woodlands – brushing aside dead leaves, Beaumont f …

The House of a Thousand Candles – Meredith Nicholson – Nicholson lived and traveled extensively in Indiana and it was a rich resource for his writing. The House of a Thousand Candles provides readers …

The Man in Lower Ten Mary Roberts Rinehart – A case of mistaken identity ignites this clever mystery from America’s queen of crime A happy bachelor in Washington, DC, Lawrence ‘Lollie’ Blakeley is ju …

Shabby and lumbering, with a face like a Norfolk dumpling, Father Brown makes for an improbable super-sleuth. But his innocence is the secret of his success: refusing the scientific method of detecti …

In the depths of the blackout, the silence of London's Royal Albert Dock is broken only by the lap of inky water against the quay and the occasional scurrying of rats' feet. A patrolling po …

A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel written by Arthur Conan Doyle. The story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become the most famous detective duo in …

Shabby and lumbering, with a face like a Norfolk dumpling, Father Brown makes for an improbable super-sleuth. But his innocence is the secret of his success: refusing the scientific method of detecti …

It’s old Mr. Bartle, sir, he whispered. He’s in your room there — dead! Dead? exclaimed Eldrick. Dead! Pratt shook his head again. He came up not so long after you’d gone, sir, he said. Everybody ha …

Longlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Historical Fiction Dagger, 2019 A Walter Scott Prize Academy Recommended Read 2019 'Rich, intelligent and dark in equal measure, leaving you wr …

Jack the Ripper is dead. This simple certainty may come as no surprise, since the prostitute killer raged in the Whitechapel slum in London more than 130 years ago. But it never became quiet around t …