Historical Detective Novels

'Alanna Knight could hardly be better' Ian Rankin When Tam Eildor arrives unexpectedly on a remote Scottish island in the year 1587 after his time machine develops a fault, he quickly finds …

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors …

1908. American author, Adams was a reporter for the New York Sun, who at the urging of his friend Ray Stannard Baker, joined Mc Clure’s Magazine, where he gained a reputation as a muckraker for his a …

Father Brown is a fictional Roman Catholic priest and amateur detective who is featured in 53 short stories published between 1910 and 1936 written by English novelist G. K. Chesterton.Father Brown s …

War and Peace (pre-reform Russian: Война́ и миръ (War and Society); post-reform Russian: Война́ и мир) is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, which is regarded as a central work of world liter …

The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel by British writer Agatha Christie. It was written in the middle of the First World War, in 1916, and in the United States in 1920 and in the Unite …

The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel by British writer Agatha Christie. It was written in the middle of the First World War, in 1916, and first published by John Lane in the United St …

Father Brown is a fictional Roman Catholic priest and amateur detective who is featured in 53 short stories published between 1910 and 1936 written by English novelist G. K. Chesterton.Father Brown s …

Tales of Unrest – Joseph Conrad – Tales of Unrest is a collection of short stories by Joseph Conrad originally published in 1898.The stories are;Karain, A Memory;The Idiots;Outpost Of Progress;The Re …

The Daffodil Mystery Edgar Wallace – When Mr. Thomas Lyne, poet, poseur. and owner of Lynes Emporium insults a cashier, Odette Rider, she resigns. Having summoned detective Jack Tarling to investigat …