Historical Detective Novels

Richard Nottingham discovers that a new, more ruthless breed of criminal has colonised the city when he returns as Constable of Leeds. October, 1736. Lured out of retirement to serve as Constable onc …

London’s social season is in full glory when Scotland Yard Inspector Frederick Abberline discovers an unidentified, well-dressed corpse down by the London docks. A widower for three years, Lord Langs …

The White Lie (1915) is a mystery novel by Anglo-French writer William Le Queux. Published at the height of Le Queux’s career as a leading author of popular thrillers, The White Lie is a story of esp …

Death is just a close shave away.  It is February 1918. Somewhere in the bayside suburbs of Melbourne, the Death Mask Murderer is lurking, engaged in a ritualistic killing spree: shaving the hea …

A church art exhibition turns deadly . . . ‘Art, my dear boy, ’ said Mr Askern, ‘especially sacred art, needs tradition. Tradition is the bedrock of our art . . .’ He broke off, staring at the woman …

This brand-new novel featuring Margery Allingham’s Mr Campion recaptures the Golden Age of British Detective Fiction. The Danish Ambassador has requested Albert Campion’s help on ‘a delicate family m …

Frenchy Degnan has always dreamt of being a real-life Indiana Jones. Obsessed with the Sword of Goliath, he publishes a history of the lost artifact with theories on its recovery but his research is …

Two monumental granite statues by famed German artist Käthe Kollwitz—the Grieving Parents—have been stolen from a World War I soldiers’ cemetery in Belgium. What could the motive have been for such a …

Jack and Betty Haldean’s weekend in the country is disrupted by sudden, violent death in this intricately-plotted 1920s mystery.   ‘The surprising revelations just keep coming. This is a real tr …