Historical Detective Novels

Florence, 1553. An assassin sent by Arma Dei disappears into the night, with him a collection of heretical art and writings. For five centuries the satchel, containing sketches and writings by Leonar …

The third novel in the Charlie Chan series.set almost exclusively in California (as opposed to Chan’s native Hawaii), and tells the story of the former head of Scotland Yard, a detective who is pursu …

Mason defends a man accused of killing his blackmailer. Das E-Book The Case of the Gilded Lily wird angeboten von Alien Ebooks und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert: mystery;crime;lawyer;cl …

Roy Melville goes to China to save his kidnapped father, who is being held for a million-dollar ransom in diamonds. On the voyage over he meets Myrna Lang, whose father is murdered in mid-ocean, and …

Inspector Joseph French faces his most perplexing case yet when a young cinema box office clerk disappears after confiding her fears to Scotland Yard. As French investigates, he uncovers a sinister p …

The second Bulldog Drummond novel: it’s not just Hugh Drummond who returns, but also his adversary, Carl Peterson. Irma Peterson is involved as well; and on the other side, Chief Inspector Mc Iver of …

A village in Cornwall is thrown into turmoil after a young girl falls from a train to her death. Was this an accident? Or murder? The mystery deepens when clues link the girl to a double homicide com …

When Walter Raleigh, a down-on-his-luck English gentleman-adventurer, rescues a man in Arminia from three attackers, he throws in with his new-found friend—and suddenly finds himself employed, for th …

Biggers had always been interested in mystery fiction, but his interest in Hawaii clearly stems from a 1919 vacation in Honolulu. While there, he read a newspaper article on a Chinese detective named …

Classic murder mystery featuring two upstanding citizens in northern towns who wish to keep their past secret. …