Historische detectiveromans

The explosion was heard twenty miles away. It killed boatmen and wrecked the exotic villa of Lawrence Alma-Tadema, the fashionable St John’s Wood artist. But what caused the 1874 Regent’s Park explos …

Bestselling detective novelist David Steel gets into a tough financial situation and accepts an invitation from an unknown mysterious lady who offers to help with his debts. In return she wants him t …

Cambridge, 1940. It is the first winter of the war, and snow is falling. When an evacuee drowns in the river, his body swept away, Detective Inspector Eden Brooke sets out to investigate what seems t …

A maritime mystery from Edward Marston, author of the bestselling Railway Detective series. New York, 1908. While waiting to embark on the Caronia, the Cunard Line's famous ocean liner, private …

Tudor intrigue, murder and the dark arts – the second in an acclaimed historical series starring Dr John Dee All talk is of the End-time… and the dead are rising. At the end of the sunless summer o …

The Purloined Letter Edgar Allan Poe The Purloined Letter’ is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is the third of his three detective stories featuring the fictional C. Auguste Dupin …

Whose was the hand that poisoned Godfrey Bowyer? Bradecote and Catchpoll are on the trail of the killer. Worcester, January 1145. Poison strikes down bow maker Godfrey Bowyer and his wife Blanche aft …

1217: England has been invaded. Much of the country is in the iron grip of Louis of France and his collaborators, and civil war rages as the forces of the boy king try to fight off the French. Most o …

The year is 1880. In West London, a dedicated doctor has set up a waiting mortuary on the borders of Kensal Green Cemetery, where corpses are left to decompose before burial to reassure clients that …

A maritime mystery from Edward Marston, author of the bestselling Railway Detective series. Egypt, 1908. George Dillman and Genevieve Masefield, used to the grand opulence of the Cunard cruise line, …