Historical Detective Novels

Cleek is a master of disguise, an able assistant to the head of Scotland Yard, and a former criminal. Hanshew’s best-known creation was the consulting detective Hamilton Cleek, known as ‘the man of t …

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ( 1859 – 1930 ) was a Scottish physician and writer most famous for his stories about a detective named Sherlock Holmes.  The stories about Sherlock Holmes have made his n …

Florence, 1553. An assassin sent by Arma Dei disappears into the night, with him a collection of heretical art and writings. For five centuries the satchel, containing sketches and writings by Leonar …

The dream of a lifetime becomes a nightmare. Photojournalist Theodora “Teddy” Schafer’s career has hit the skids thanks to rumors of plagiarism. With any luck, a photo spread with Charles Lindbergh a …

Ed Jenkins, the Phantom Crook, invades a slimy web of crime to get loose an innocent victim. Classic pulp fiction by the creator of Perry Mason! Includes an introduction by Karl Wurf. …

Though he did work for a small-town newspaper, Ken Svederup had been around, and to him the expense-paid trip he had won for a front-page news beat seemed pretty phony. But never look a gift horse… …

An elite, rich, and spunky older lady rents a country house for the summer along with her skittish Irish maid and her niece. Some servants sort of come with the property but most soon abandon their n …

Thomas W. Hanshew was an actor and writer who wrote detective stories featuring Hamilton Cleek, ‘the man of the forty faces’ who was skillfully able to disguise himself. Cleek was a British detective …

‘The Mystery of the Sycamore’ is an early type of detective story, falling somewhere between Conan Doyle’s genius Sherlock Holmes and Hammett’s tough-guy Sam Spade. It contains elements of the Gothic …

A rather interesting and quite complex classic mystery encompassing a murder which occurs in a quiet cathedral town and involving a myriad of characters all of which keep the reader quite puzzled thr …