Historical Detective Novels

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 …

‘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 …

In 1974, at the height of the Cold War, a traffic accident occurs late one night outside the United Nations building. Or was it an accident. Anne Thomas, the low-level UN employee who was struck, is …

Jacquie Pham’s transportive debut, Those Opulent Days, delivers a classic historical murder mystery centered around the glamor, violence, wealth, and opium of 1920’s French-colonial Vietnam that mesh …

DI Herbert Reardon investigates the murder of an enigmatic woman who was about to leave her comfortable life behind and mysteriously disappear in this page-turning 1930s historical mystery with gasp- …

In A Creature of the Night, Fergus Hume presents a spine-tingling mystery steeped in gothic horror. The novel follows a man haunted by strange visions and eerie occurrences as he becomes entangled in …

‘The Old Stone House and Other Stories’ is a collection of short stories written by Anna Katharine Green, a prominent American author known for her detective fiction and mysteries. The collection was …

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen: A novel that contrasts the personalities of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, exploring themes of love, responsibility, and societal expectations. …

‘The Secret Adversary’ is a detective novel written by Agatha Christie, first published in 1922. It is the first novel to feature her recurring characters Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, a dynamic duo …

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