Historical Detective Novels

Cornwall, 1845. Shilly has always felt a connection to happenings that are not of this world, a talent that has proved invaluable when investigating dark deeds with master of disguise, Anna Drake. Th …

Bestselling detective novelist David Steel gets into a tough financial situation and accepts an invitation from an unknown mysterious lady who offers to help with his debts. In return she wants him t …

A maritime mystery from Edward Marston, author of the bestselling Railway Detective series. Bombay, 1909. Genevieve Masefield and George Dillman make a living as detectives aboard the early twentieth …

Tudor intrigue, murder and the dark arts – the second in an acclaimed historical series starring Dr John Dee All talk is of the End-time… and the dead are rising. At the end of the sunless summer o …

The Purloined Letter Edgar Allan Poe The Purloined Letter’ is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is the third of his three detective stories featuring the fictional C. Auguste Dupin …

A maritime mystery from Edward Marston, author of the bestselling Railway Detective series. Southampton, 1910. When the Oceanic sets sail its ultimate destination is New York. But it must make one ve …

It is 1906 and the Faro family gather in Orkney after the sudden death of Inspector Faro's son-in-law Erland Yesnaby. The family try to support grieving widow Emily, but after witnessing strange …

It is a remarkable sequence of events, a story which in these days of high civilisation is so extraordinary as to almost stagger belief. Yet the higher the civilisation the more refined are its evil- …

The Lane Fleming collection of early pistols and revolvers was one of the best in the country. When Fleming was found dead on the floor of his locked gunroom, a Confederate-made Colt-type percussion …

A nightmarish tale of religious madness, this chilling classic of Scottish literature tells the story of a young man who falls under the spell of a mysterious doppelganger and is seduced into committ …