Historical Detective Novels

‘The Night Horseman’ is a novel written by Max Brand, the pseudonym of Frederick Schiller Faust. It was first published in 1920. The story follows the character of Whistling Dan Barry, a young cowboy …

A drama of murder, love, and redemption set in Nova Scotia in the final year of World War I. It’s 1918. The war in Europe grinds on, and the Spanish flu seems to be on an insatiable killing spree. Bu …

‘ An atmospheric and gripping standalone thriller’ – THE TIMES The gripping new 2024 thriller from the Sunday Times and one million copy bestselling author of The English Führer. In this brilliant st …

‘Jacob’s Room’ is a novel written by Virginia Woolf, first published in 1922. It is considered one of Woolf’s early experimental works and marks a significant departure from traditional narrative for …

The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang: A collection of traditional fairy tales from various cultures, selected and retold by Lang, part of his famous "Fairy Books" series. …

‘Beautifully written and impeccably researched, …. the story is certain to captivate fans of both manor fiction and cozy murder mysteries, many of whom will not foresee the villainy that Stasz unve …

“I can’t resist: The Swill is swell. It reads like the princely offspring of Chandler and Lehane. It’s sharp, witty, violent. It’s a sort of political/historical thriller, but what made it important …

As a deadly cholera pandemic burns its way through Victorian London in the winter of 1866, a trailblazing female physician and a skeptical Scotland Yard detective reluctantly team up to stop a sadist …

The acclaimed author of the Anthony, Agatha, Macavity, and Lefty Award-nominated Devil’s Chew Toy delights with the first in a new historical mystery series set in turn-of-the-19th-century Chicago, a …