Historical Detective Novels

Wounded warrior Duncan receives a mysterious letter from an old friend requesting his counsel. During a follow-up visit, he presses Elizabeth for details, and she admits that an older woman whose int …

A quiet English community is rocked to its core when a stranger comes to town and falls to his death from a gallery of the local cathedral. Was it suicide or was he pushed? Foul play is suspected, bu …

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London, 1899. A shocking murder is discovered at the heart of the Tower of London. The dead body of a Yeoman Warder is found inside a suit of armour belonging to Henry VIII, having been run through w …

The novel takes place entirely in the environs of Egdon Heath, and, with the exception of the epilogue, Aftercourses, covers exactly a year and a day. The narrative begins on the evening of Guy Fawke …

London, 1871. Traveller, photographer and sometime intelligencer Adam Carver is asked by a friend from the Foreign Office to find Dolly Delaney, a West End dancing girl who has been involved with a d …

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. …

A maritime mystery from Edward Marston, author of the bestselling Railway Detective series. September 1907. George Dillman sets sail from Liverpool to New York on the Lusitania's maiden voyage. …

London 1903: American Ursula Grandison is once again involved with murder. As she struggles to make a living in a society where women have few rights and little freedom, she teams up with old friend …

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