Historical Detective Novels

‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham’s Magazine in 1841. It has been recognized as the first modern detective story; Poe referred to it as one of hi …

Tony ‘Pocket’ Upton is almost seventeen-years-old, a student at a resident school in England, and has suffered from asthma as long as he can remember. Pocket makes regular overnight trips into London …

A respectable young attorney in New York City, Otis Landon has barely settled into his new living quarters when an incident occurs in a neighboring apartment that he cannot, in good conscience, ignor …

Dundee, 1860s. Sergeant George Watters and his team investigate the murder of a local banker, found dead on the 13th tee of a local golf course. Illicit prizefighters, merchants and prostitutes …

In this elegant drama, Anna Katharine Green, one of the greatest mystery writers of all time, weaves a narrative with her usual consummate skill, and portrays her characters with exceptional sympathy …

Meet Trygve Yamamura—judo expert, Samurai sword connoisseur, and private detective. He is a triple threat to San Francisco crime. These combined skills enable him to keep his own head attached while …

A highly complicated plot, with cliff-hangers, intense back stories, very bad mothers and very good mothers. Emile Gaboriau does not dissapoint with this classic mystery-thriller, guaranteed to keep …

Cleek is poacher-turned-gamekeeper, a master criminal who decides to turn straight and work for Scotland Yard after being stricken by the sight of a lovely, innocent young woman whose jewels he was a …

The Moonstone was described by T. S. Eliot as ‘the first and greatest of English detective novels.’ Published in 1868, it is one of the two books (with The Woman in White) for which Collins is most f …

The well-trained servants glided about the dining-room in the noiseless fashion peculiar to their class. It was a large perfectly-appointed room, filled with priceless pictures, bronzes and old furni …