Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

Creighton Mine, where the innocent hide in the shadows and a killer walks free. In 1951 Canada is experiencing a post-war boom, but life moves slower in the northern town of Creighton Mine. For nine-year-old Rose unpaved streets and outhouses are all she's ever...

They're used to solving murders. But until now the killer has always been human...October 1912. The inhabitants of Littleton Cotterell emerge from their homes after a week of torrential storms to the gruesome news that one of Sid Hyde's prized sheep has been mauled...

The Twentieth-Anniversary Edition of the First Novel of the Acclaimed Mary Russell Series by Edgar Award-Winning Author Laurie R. King. An Agatha Award Best Novel Nominee - Named One of the Century's Best 100 Mysteries by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association In 1915, Sherlock...

The Bell in the Fog, a dazzling historical mystery by Lev AC Rosen, asks--once you have finally found a family, how far would you go to prove yourself to them? San Francisco, 1952. Detective Evander "Andy" Mills has started a new life for himself...

A Washington Post Best Mystery Novel of 2023 A high society amateur detective at the heart of Regency London uses her wits and invisibility as an 'old maid' to protect other women in a new and fiercely feminist historical mystery series from New York...

One of the most acclaimed works of crime fiction ever written, The Big Sleep is the first novel featuring Raymond Chandler's iconic creation Philip Marlowe, hailed as the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times). One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the...

Author: Raymond ChandlerPublisher: Sanage Publishing House LlpPublished: 01/16/2023Pages: 240Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69dISBN: 9788119007097

Spanning Gilded Age New York society to the 1930s Scottish Highlands, this gothic novel is a mystery within a mystery, featuring a compelling heroine, an engrossing puzzle with fiendish clues, and not one but three big twists. It's 1932: Scottish adventuress and plant-hunter (and...

In one of the most well-known classic American murder mysteries, amateur detective Philo Vance must solve a puzzle series of crimes based on nursery rhymes "The perfect sleuth for Jazz Age New York" -- CrimeReads "With his highbrow manner and his parade of encyclopedic...

Everything you could ever want in a Golden Age of Detective Fiction novel. -- BooklistAlso known by its US title The Problem of the Green Capsule, this classic novel is widely regarded as one of John Dickson Carr's masterpieces and remains among the greatest...

Elizabeth II's coronation is looming, but DI Edgar Stephens is busy investigating the death of a local fortune-teller. Meanwhile, his old pal, the magician Max Mephisto, is rehearsing for his television debut, a coronation day variety show. But upon hearing that their wartime commander,...

Now with a beautiful new series look, the iconic Miss Marple must investigate the case of a girl found dead in Agatha Christie's classic mystery.It's seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She...

A potentially momentous discovery. A suspicious fire. A 50-year-old missing person's case. Are they connected? When Buddy Bolden died in a Louisiana insane asylum in 1931, a quarter century after his reign as the undisputed first "king" of jazz, he left behind no known...

A GRIPPING HISTORICAL THRILLER SET IN INVERNESS IN THE WAKE OF THE 1746 BATTLE OF CULLODEN. 'This slice of historical fiction takes you on a wild ride' THE TIMES After Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drummossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally...

This Edgar Award winner is "equal parts morality tale and page-turning thriller" (Denver Post)--classic American storytelling in its truest, darkest, and most affecting form, with echoes of William Faulkner and Harper Lee. Its 1933 in East Texas and the Depression lingers in the air...

British Intelligence Agent Verity Kent managed to survive four years of The Great War, slipping in and out of German-occupied Belgium and northeastern France, dodging serious consequences or capture. But as she faces her most dangerous--and devastating--challenge yet, her luck may have run out....

Has Jack the Ripper returned?Summer 1901, and the great Pan-American Exposition welcomes the world to Buffalo, New York-Queen of the Lakes . . . the Electric City. Eight million visitors throng the bustling boomtown-all of them looking for a good time.While the Pan-American blazes...

Award-winning crime novelist Abir Mukherjee returns to his brilliant mystery series set in late-1920s Calcutta, as Sam Wyndham and Surendranath Banerjee must reunite to solve a high profile murder and disappearance. In The Burning Ghats of Calcutta, where the dead are laid to rest,...

Author: Naomi StephensPublisher: Bethany House PublishersPublished: 10/15/2024Pages: 336Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.10h x 5.30w x 1.00dISBN: 9780764242472Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 07/22/2024Library Journal 09/01/2024 pg. 81About the AuthorNaomi Stephens is a bookworm turned teacher turned writer. Her first novel, Shadow among Sheaves, was an INSPY...

The discovery of a murdered woman sparks a nightmare that may destroy everything for Gemma and Sebastian...In a respectable London neighborhood, nurse Gemma Tate and her fiancé, Inspector Sebastian Bell, are planning their future together. But their dreams shatter when they discover a murdered...