Historical Detective Novels

Margery Allingham’s Mr Campion finds himself a fish out of water when he investigates a murder in a Yorkshire mining village. Following the death of the senior English master in a tragic road acciden …

When murder postpones their wedding, a couple vows to find a killer in this Regency-era mystery by the author of Death Comes to Kurland Hall.   As Miss Lucy Harrington, daughter of the village r …

Prohibition takes the battle, along with the party, to the streets. Jack Mc Closkey returned to Windsor, Ontario, from the Great War shell-shocked and battling inner demons. Channeling his energy int …

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 …

1734. When a young country lad requests the Constable’s help in finding his sister who has run away to Leeds to seek her fortune, Nottingham is not optimistic. Such girls usually end up as prostitute …

Murder makes a debut on the London social scene in this Regency-era mystery by the author of Death Comes to the Village. With the reluctant blessings of their father, the rector of Kurland St. Mary, …

As the Great Depression loosens its grip on New York City, Mayor La Guardia and his team meet their greatest foe in the fight against organized crime … Lane Sanders and her fiery boss, Mayor Fio …

Apprentice healer Lassair encounters a mysterious veiled noblewoman who brings unexpected peril When Lassair encounters a veiled noblewoman on the quay at Cambridge one morning, set on by an angry mo …

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 …

When Mrs Paxton, related to the aristocratic Leigh family of Sussex, is found poisoned in her bedroom one morning, fingers point towards her artist nephew Terence Napier, seen leaving the house earli …