Historical Detective Novels

When a Dublin Pawnbroker is found murdered and the lead suspect goes missing, Sergeant Joe Swallow is handed the poisoned chalice of the investigation. With authorities pressing for a quick resolutio …

The maid of the title is red-haired, dog-loving Wilhelmina ‘Billie’ Bennet, and the three men are Bream Mortimer, a long-time friend and admirer of Billie, Eustace Hignett, a lily-livered poet who is …

Originally a physician, in 1887 Arthur Conan Doyle published A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and more than fifty short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories ar …

British novelist, playwright, and journalist who produced popular detective and suspense stories and was in his time ‘the king’ of the modern thriller. Wallace’s literary output 175 books, 24 plays, …

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 …

The Mystery of the Yellow Room Gaston Leroux – ‘The finest locked room tale ever written.’ John Dickson Carr, author of The Hollow Man.If I am the phantom, it is because man’s hatred has made me so. …

1894, Wigan. Miss Dorothea Gadsworth is interviewed for a teaching vacancy at George Street Elementary, but is ultimately dismissed as a candidate. The following Monday morning, her body is discovere …

Sara Stanley is only fourteen, but she can weave tales that are impossible to resist. In the charming town of Carlisle, children and grown-ups alike flock from miles around to hear her spellbinding t …

Glenn Killbourne and his fiancee Carley Burch find a strange test of their love in the mountains and canyons of Arizona.What subtle strange message had come to her out of the West?Carley Burch laid t …

June, 1917. While German Gotha bombers raid London from above, a man's body is fished from the Thames below. The man had been garrotted and his tongue cut out before he was left to his watery gr …