Historical Detective Novels

From hunting pickpockets in London omnibuses and ghosts in Hesse Square, Sergeant Watters and Detective Silver are led into the notorious Wild Geese public house, and a tangled mystery that involves …

An unsettling contemporary mystery with a historical twist and fast-paced plot, from the author of the Jen Shaw series. Six decades. Seven people. One unspeakable secret. 1957. A catastrophe occurs a …

Edo, 1788. A city of fleeting pleasures and shadowy secrets. Beneath the geishas’ painted smiles, a chilling dread hangs heavy in the air.  Unexplained deaths ripple through the elite, each vict …

When Sergeant George Watters is assigned to a scuttling case, he thinks he can solve it in a few days. Instead, he discovers a connection to a string of burglaries of high-value shops and hotels acro …

Kyoto, 1867. Cherry blossoms rained down on a city steeped in tradition, yet beneath thedelicatebeauty, a chilling artist was at work. When a wealthy merchant is discoveredfolded into the shape of a …

Dundee, 1860s. Sergeant George Watters and his team investigate the murder of a local banker, found dead on the 13th tee of a local golf course. Illicit prizefighters, merchants and prostitutes …

Colonel Wharton Kendrick leaned back in his chair, stroked his red side-whiskers reflectively, and looked across the table with an expression of embarrassment on his round ruddy face. For the moment …

In the fifth novel of Malcolm Archibald’s 19th century detective novels, Sergeant Watters finds himself overwhelmed with three simultaneous cases. With a case of poisoning, a series of child kidnappi …

Can a wrong be rectified in death? Eight months ago, Simone experienced her first spectral encounter. It awakened a dormant second sight and opened a chasm to the afterlife. Now, another spirit from …

Now an inspector, George Watters finds himself in the middle of another puzzling case. It is 1870 in Dundee, and Watters is ordered to solve a railway robbery. After Lord Balmuir’s factor is found un …