Historische detectiveromans

Meet Trygve Yamamura—judo expert, Samurai sword connoisseur, and private detective. He is a triple threat to San Francisco crime. These combined skills enable him to keep his own head attached while …

The setting: Hollywood. The year: 1943. When death strikes at the austere, castle-like home of Earl Falkoner, an erratic designer of Hollywood sets and a would-be playwright, his hired writers and hi …

Calvin Gates, a young American, is travelling to Mongolia to join up with an archaeology expedition. He encounters Mr. Moto on a ship travelling from Japan to Korea. As his travels continue, he finds …

A winding adventure that begins in an exotic, teasing location. Richard Austin Freeman introduces the reader to the delights of an extraordinary jewel heist. Hollis is a retired soap manufacturer, ri …

‘Well, by the Great Catamaran! I think it’s the most footle business I ever heard of! A regulation, clinker-built, angle-iron, sunk-hinge family feud, carried on by two women! Women! conducting a feu …

‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham’s Magazine in 1841. It has been recognized as the first modern detective story; Poe referred to it as one of hi …

Cleek is poacher-turned-gamekeeper, a master criminal who decides to turn straight and work for Scotland Yard after being stricken by the sight of a lovely, innocent young woman whose jewels he was a …

“I think Labour Day is an awfully funny holiday, ” remarked Patty. “It doesn’t seem to mean anything. It doesn’t commemorate anybody’s birth or death or heroism.” “It’s like Bank Holiday in England, …

This historical novel is based upon the true story of 5-year old Caty Sage, who dissapeared from her family’s wilderness farm in 1792.  It is the story of her father’s incessant quest to find he …

RED MONEY That’s what the gypsy woman called it. ‘Red money because it is tainted with blood!’ declared Mother Cockleshell, between her bouts of fortune telling amidst the Romany caravans parked in A …