Historical Detective Novels

In June 1900, reporter Emma Cross discovers the body of a woman in the waters below the Morgans’ mansion, which threatens to send members of Newport’s high society floundering . . . As a reporter, Em …

When a counterfeiting ring rocks London, the trail leads to a curiosity shop and a professor offering a treatment for ‘absent-minded gentleman’ – but can Detective Kenyon get to the bottom of the cle …

The Silent House (1899) is a mystery novel by Fergus Hume. Although not as successful as The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886), an immediate bestseller for Hume, The Silent House is a gripping novel wit …

The narrators of Paco Ignacio Taibo II’s wonderfully inventive novel, Four Hands, are Greg Simon and Julio Fernandez: investigative journalists uncovering an elaborate plot by an obscure American gov …

A slain lawyer and a stolen diamond compose quite a puzzle for an eighteenth-century anatomist in this historical mystery for fans of Caleb Carr. Newly released from the notorious asylum known as Bed …

A medieval mystery featuring disgraced knight Crispin Guest London, 1388. When the mythical Stone of Destiny disappears from the throne of England during mass in Westminster Abbey, the populace takes …

In their fifth adventure, Rosalind Bernaud, an artist/photographer from Brisbane, and Edinburgh archaeologist Philip Trevasco travel to Cornwall to help his uncle Jeremy achieve his dying wish: to fi …

From the ashes of war rise the secrets of its darkest hearts. . . In the wake of the Battle of Waterloo, Paris is a house divided. The triumphant Bourbons flaunt their victory with lavish parties, wh …

‘Fans of medieval mysteries will revel in Starr’s lively blending of intriguing suspense and telling historical detail.’ – Library Journal It is the autumn of 1367. Master Hugh is enjoying the peacef …

A baby abandoned in the palace gardens leads scribe sleuth Christine de Pizan into a mystery involving murder, superstition and scandal in fourteenth-century France. Paris, 1396. Scribe Christine de …