Historical Detective Novels

The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont (1906) is a collection of lively, enjoyable stories about a French detective resident in London. Whether dealing with a gang of anarchists in ‘The Siamese Twin of …

What would you do if you opened a package to find a man’s head? What would you do if the headless corpse had been swapped for a case of bullion? What would you do if you knew a brutal murderer was ou …

In the debut of literature’s most famous sleuth, a dead man is discovered in a bloodstained room in Brixton. The only clues are a wedding ring, a gold watch, a pocket edition of Boccaccio’s Decameron …

The murder of two brothers at the same time. though six hundred miles apart, is only the first of many mysteries surrounding Ravensdene Court. How could the two brothers have been murdered when they …

Any reasonable summary of this book’s plot would give away too much of the mystery it describes, so suffice it to say that it is a definite ‘page-turner.’ Right from the first chapter, when we learn …

When the paths of the beautiful French heiress, the ‘Mistress of Carcassonne’ and the neurotic genius and Hollywood movie writer-producer Xob S’ardnap, cross, they soon find themselves deep in a myst …

The Maltese Falcon is a 1930 detective novel by American writer Dashiell Hammett, originally serialized in the magazine Black Mask beginning with the September 1929 issu …

Has Nick Carter finally met his match? A new master-criminal is on the New York scene—one armed with medical knowledge, a talent for impersonation, and a brazen set of schemes that even use Nick to h …

I spent a miserable night. I went to bed early, and lay awake till daybreak. The hideous nightmare of the green ray kept me awake for many nights to come. The General agreed with me that we must wast …

When Harry Marsland was caught in a sudden down pour he sought shelter at Cliff Farm. Met at the door by a young woman clearly expecting someone else he is only too glad to get inside to wait out the …