Mystery & Detective - Historical

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Bertie and the Seven Bodies (A Prince...

Peter Lovesey

The second entry of the Bertie, Prince of Wales mystery series, featuring future King Edward VII, Albert Edward, as an amateur sleuth solving suspicious murders in Victorian England.Bertie, Prince of Wales, is delighted to be invited ...

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Published: Feb 2020

The Hangman's Daughter

Oliver Potzsch

Magdalena, the clever and headstrong daughter of Bavarian hangman Jakob Kuisl, lives with her father outside the village walls and is destined to be married off to another hangman's son—except that the town physician's son is hopele...

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Published: Aug 2011

The Tainted Coin: The Fifth Chronicle...

Mel Starr

It is the autumn of 1367. Master Hugh is enjoying the peaceful life of Bampton when a badly beaten man is found under the porch of St. Andrew's Chapel. The dying man is a chapman--a traveling merchant. Before he is buried in the chap...

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Published: Jan 2013

A Hanging at Dawn: A Bess Crawford Sh...

Charles Todd

“Bess is among the most compassionate and intelligent characters.” –The Sun-Sentinel \n\nFrom the New York Times bestselling author of the Bess Crawford mystery series, a short story that unravels dark secrets from h...

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Published: Nov 2020

Bedford Square: A Charlotte and Thoma...

Anne Perry

The freshly dead body sprawled on the Bedford Square doorstep of General Brandon Balantyne is an affront to every respectable sensibility. The general denies all knowledge of the shabbily dressed victim who has so rudely come to death...

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Published: Oct 2011

The Bottoms (Vintage Crime/Black Liza...

Joe R. Lansdale

A thriller with echoes of William Faulkner and Harper Lee, The Bottoms is classic American storytelling in its truest, darkest, and more affecting form. Its 1933 in East Texas and the Depression lingers in the air like a slow moving ...

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Published: Dec 2010

Death on Blackheath: A Charlotte and ...

Anne Perry

NATIONAL BESTSELLERAnne Perry's superb New York Times bestselling novels set in the glorious reign of Victoria are loved by readers far and wide. Now, with this new Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery, Perry returns us to that charmed e...

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Published: Mar 2015

Nemesis: A Marcus Didius Falco Novel

Lindsey Davis

In the high summer of 77 AD, Roman informer Marcus Didius Falco is beset by personal problems. Newly bereaved and facing unexpected upheavals in his life, it is a relief for him to consider someone else's misfortunes. A middle-aged co...

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Published: Nov 2011

The Murder of Mr. Wickham

Claudia Gray

A summer house party turns into a thrilling whodunit when Jane Austen's Mr. Wickham—one of literature’s most notorious villains—meets a sudden and suspicious end in this brilliantly imagined mystery featuring Austen&...

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Published: May 2022

Ruddy Gore (Miss Fisher's Murder Myst...

Kerry Greenwood

Running late to a gala performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Ruddigore, Phryne Fisher meets some thugs in dark alley and handles them convincingly before they can ruin her silver dress. She then finds that she has rescued the handso...

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Published: Apr 2017

The Killings at Kingfisher Hill: The ...

Sophie Hannah

Named a New York Times Best Book to Give The world’s greatest detective, Hercule Poirot—legendary star of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Expressand Death on the Nile—returns to solve a delectably twist...

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Published: Sep 2021

The Mark of the Pasha: A Mamur Zapt M...

Michael Pearce

The Great War has ended, and the army is keen to be demobbed. But Willoughby, the new British High Commissioner in Egypt, has managed to affront the Khedive by refusing to receive rival delegations fueled by rising nationalism. Then, ...

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Published: Jan 2010

The Whitechapel Conspiracy: A Charlot...

Anne Perry

In 1892, the grisly murders of Whitechapel prostitutes four years earlier by a killer dubbed Jack the Ripper remain a terrifying enigma. And in a packed Old Bailey courtroom, Superintendent Thomas Pitt's testimony causes distinguished...

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Published: Jan 2002

Murder at Archly Manor (High Society ...

Sara Rosett

A high society murder. A spirited lady detective. Can she out-class the killer before an innocent person takes the fall? London, 1923. Olive Belgrave needs a job. Despite her aristocratic upbringing, she's penniless. Determined to su...

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Published: Oct 2018

Murder at Blackburn Hall (High Societ...

Sara Rosett

A missing author and a sleepy English village rife with secrets . . .September, 1923. Despite closing her first case, high society lady detective Olive Belgrave hasn't found a new client. She's taken a job as a hat model to pay for he...

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Published: Jan 2019

Evil in Emerald (A Harriet Gordon Mys...

A. M. Stuart

Craving a change of pace, Harriet Gordon, joins a local musical theatre production but when a fellow cast member is brutally killed, Harriet and Inspector Curran must turn the spotlight on murder in this all-new mystery from the autho...

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Published: Mar 2022

Racing the Devil: An Inspector Ian Ru...

Charles Todd

Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge finds himself caught in a twisted web of vengeance, old grievances, and secrets that lead back to World War I in the nineteenth installment of the acclaimed bestselling series.On the eve of the bloody Batt...

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Published: Dec 2017

The Dove of Death: A Mystery of Ancie...

Peter Tremayne

In A.D. 670, an Irish merchant ship is attacked by a pirate vessel off the southern coast of the Breton peninsula. Merchad, the ship's captain, and Bressal, a prince from the Irish kingdom of Muman, are killed in cold blood after they...

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Published: Sep 2011

Mission Impawsible

Krista Davis

From the New York Times bestselling author of Murder Most Howl comes another Paws & Claws mystery... In the pet-friendly town of Wagtail, Virginia, there’s no love lost when Holly Miller meets her match in a murderer...  Holly and...

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Published: Feb 2017

In Dublin's Fair City

Rhys Bowen

Molly Murphy, a plucky P.I. in 1903 New York, sails back to her native Ireland on a case searching for the sister of an Irish American impressario. The woman was too sick to travel and was left behind when the family took a famine shi...

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Published: May 2016

The Yard

Alex Grecian

1889, LONDON. JACK THE RIPPER'S REIGN OF TERROR IN FINALLY OVER, BUT A NEW ONE IS JUST BEGINNING. Victorian London—a violent cesspool of squalid depravity. Only twelve detectives—The Murder Squad—are expected to solve the thou...

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Published: Apr 2013

Death at Victoria Dock (Miss Fisher's...

Kerry Greenwood

Driving home late one night, Phryne Fisher is surprised when someone shoots out her windscreen. She alights to finds a pretty young man with an anarchist tattoo dying on the tarmac just outside the dock gates. He bleeds to death in he...

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Published: Jan 2017

A Perilous Perspective (A Lady Darby ...

Anna Lee Huber

An all-new historical mystery in this USA Today bestselling series featuring beloved inquiry agents Lady Kiera Darby and her dashing husband, Sebastian Gage. Argyll, Scotland. July 1832. After a trying few months in Edinburgh, Kier...

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Published: Apr 2022

Death Around the Bend

T. E. Kinsey

September 1909, and Lady Hardcastle and her maid, Florence, have been invited to Lord Riddlethorpe's country estate for a week of motor racing and parties. They both agree that it sounds like a perfectly charming holiday. But when one...

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Published: Jun 2017

Death Comes to the Village

Catherine Lloyd

Major Robert Kurland has returned to the quiet vistas of his village home to recuperate from the horrors of Waterloo. However injured his body may be, his mind is as active as ever. Too active, perhaps. When he glimpses a shadowy figu...

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Published: Nov 2013

Anne Perry's Christmas Crimes: Two Vi...

Anne Perry

'Tis the season for a pair of Christmas novels that add a dash of murder to the Yuletide spirit. "Perry's Victorian-era holiday mysteries [are] an annual treat."—The Wall Street Journal A CHRISTMAS HOMECOMING "Coul...

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Published: Nov 2014

Anne Perry's Merry Mysteries: Two Vic...

Anne Perry

CHRISTMAS COMES TWICE THIS YEAR WITH A PAIR OF DELICIOUS VICTORIAN MYSTERIES SET ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC. A Christmas Hope "Very much recommended . . . a wonderful story."—Historical Novel Review Claudine Burrough...

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Published: Nov 2015

The Hollow of Fear

Sherry Thomas

Charlotte Holmes, Lady Sherlock, returns in the Victorian-set mystery series from the USA Today bestselling author of A Conspiracy in Belgravia and A Study in Scarlet Women, an NPR Best Book of 2016.Under the cover of "Sherlock H...

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Published: Oct 2018

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pi...

Alan Bradley

It is the summer of 1950, and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is intrigued by a series of inexplicable events. For Flavia, life begins in earnest when murder ...

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Published: Jan 2010

A Fatal Waltz

Tasha Alexander

At her friend Ivy's behest, Emily reluctantly agrees to attend a party at the sprawling English country estate of Lord Fortescue, a man she finds as odious as he is powerful. But if Emily is expecting Lord Fortescue to be the greates...

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Published: Jul 2009
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