Historical Mystery category: 10101 books

First in the historical mystery series featuring a sophisticated sleuth in Jazz Age Greenwich Village! Everyone who’s anyone in 1920s New York knows Bedford Green. Once a merciless gossip columnist, he has given up the life of sleaze and secrets and decamped for the Village—to open a gritty...

*Excerpt* This is how I began my morning. First, I slipped on my mourning ring. It was made of a cabochon onyx that covered almost my entire finger. The band was a thin band of gold to secure the stone. No scrollwork. Then, I settled in Uncle’s study to go over my book of accounts. I’ve...

From Publishers Weekly The Virginia Peninsula campaign of 1862 serves as backdrop for Monfredo's latest Seneca Falls mystery, a smooth blend of romance, history and suspense, though familiarity with the previous book in the series, Sisters of Cain (2000), is essential to a full understanding of the...

Plato’s metaphysical Atlantis mystery plays out on an archaeological dig on the island of Santorini. It was the chance of a lifetime. A dream job in the southern Aegean. Apprentice to the great archaeologist Marcus Huxley, lifting a golden civilisation from the dead... Yet trading rural England...

Semiramis - one of the historical persons shrouded in mystery: Great Babylonian Queen preserved in the history as a strong woman, scares the historian so they made from her just a legend. All legends are, but the truth waiting for those who are ready to decipher them. Read this...

The Stolen Gold Affair is the latest charming historical mystery in Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Bill Pronzini's detective series. In response to a string of gold thefts in a Mother Lode mine, Quincannon goes undercover as a newly-hired miner to identify and capture the men responsible. Meanwhile,...

The Summit House Mystery: The Earthly Purgatory written by L. Dougall who was a Canadian author and feminist. This book was published in 1905. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally...

Praise for Book 3 in the Dori O. Paranormal Mystery Series “The best book in the series so far!” “An eerie, absorbing journey.” “I could hardly put it down after starting it. This book had it all; romance, action, & paranormal activity. Can’t wait to see what Dori...

When an ancient evil rises to threaten the world of the living and the realm of the dead, 19-year old Patience Sinclair is recruited by a covert group of young, extraordinary English lords, known as THE LEGION OF MITHRAS, to help save mankind. PATIENCE SINCLAIR has lost everything—her family, her...

After Rome, before the Middle Ages, Italy belonged to the Ostrogoths.A corrupt governor. A young girl. An old man. Argolicus unravels the threads.When a life-long friend disappears, a peaceful retreat to the provinces turns into a challenge to the local governor for Argolicus.A...

Midwife Catherine Williams's neighbor, Isaac Powell, is found dead and scalped. Suspicion falls on Catherine's Indian assistant Massaquoit, but Powell's apprentice has also disappeared. Catherine and Massaquoit search for the truth in their different--and sometimes dangerous--ways, gathering clues to...

A body in a ditch, a missing wife, money in short supply, and a horse wanted by the leader of a brutal Australian gang - Sergeant Frank Hardy has a lot to handle. The third book in this gripping historical mystery series set in New Zealand in the 1880s continues the story of ex-Diehard Sergeant Frank...

Imagine Agatha Christie writes a murder mystery, using a cast of characters as vast as any by J.R.R. Tolkien, and places it in the land of Louis L’Amour. This is the scope of And the Wind Whispered, the tale of three teenaged budding reporters who stumble onto a murder, which is only the beginning...

Journey from Jazz Age New York to Kenya, with a novel by an author who “successfully combines the genre of historical novel and murder mystery” (Booklist). It’s a beautiful day in Greenwich Village, and business is booming for art dealer Bedford Green. The former gossip owes it all to...