Historical Detective Novels

‘V mire’ (In the World) is a novel written by Maxim Gorky, first published in 1906. It is considered one of Gorky’s major works and is a continuation of his exploration of the lives of the Russian wo …

‘Rodney Stone’ is a historical novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, first published in 1896. Unlike Conan Doyle’s more famous Sherlock Holmes stories, ‘Rodney Stone’ is set in the late 18th centu …

‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly’ is a novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, an American abolitionist and author. It was first published as a serial in 1851-1852 and later compiled into …

‘Vittoria’ is a novel written by George Meredith, a prominent Victorian-era English novelist and poet. The complete title is often given as ‘Vittoria: A Tragedy in the Utmost City.’ The novel was fir …

As America races toward the supposedly bright new decade of the 1950s, disillusioned white private dick, Matt Moulton finds himself faltering in the dark. Should he serve an amnesiac client whose rec …

Deputy Dawg or D. B. Cooper, a Mary Mac Intosh novel, follows two true crimes that occurred within months of one another in 1971. Deputy Dawg was a lawless hippie in the late ’60s and early ’70s in B …

Maxim Gorky, whose real name was Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, was a renowned Russian writer, playwright, and political activist. He was born on March 28, 1868, in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, and died on J …

‘The Mysterious Island’ is a novel written by Jules Verne, first published in 1874. It’s one of Verne’s most popular and enduring works, often considered a classic of adventure literature. The story …

‘Wuthering Heights’ is a novel written by English author Emily Brontë, first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. The novel is set in the Yorkshire moors of England and follows the lives …