Historical Mystery category: 10101 books

In 1880s Chicago, Shakespearean actress turned Pinkerton detective Lilly Long must play the part of a soiled dove to find a missing friend . . .   As one of a handful of female operatives employed by legendary crime fighter Allan Pinkerton, Lilly draws on her theatrical training to go undercover...

Young gunslinger detectives, Mick and Casey McKee, are eager to hear some opera singing. But when somebody takes a shot at some visiting divas, the concert is off. The ladies won't sing until Mick and Casey solve a case of blackmail and murder.

Moser Mansion in Locked Rock, Iowa became a spooky place right after the annual Halloween party. Libby Hook sees ghosts wandering around with her in the middle of the night. She unsettles everyone with her screams that are loud enough to wake the dead. Gracie Evans blames the hauntings on a southern...

Gracie Evans, resident of Moser Mansion, and Locked Rock, Iowa native, has become a women's activist. The newspaper is full of stories about how women in the east are burning their corsets to draw attention to the fact they want the right to vote. Gracie talks the women's bible group into joining...

The Moser Mansion Rest Home For Women residents have been summoned to testify against Mavis Jordan, a former neighbor. She is on trial for killing the lady of the evening that lived across from the rest home. Molly Lang wants to make this a pleasant outing for the ladies inspite of the trial. Gracie...

Gracie Evans is tired of retirement at the Moser Mansion For Women Rest Home in Locked Rock, Iowa. She has the worse case of spring fever you ever saw. So she wishes she could go back to the farm just for a short time. She gets her wish when the renter asks her to farm set while he takes his wife...

Swashbuckling historical thriller, a parallel novel to Dumas’s The Three Musketeers: In 1619 the esoteric and forbidden magic of the Rosicrucian Brotherhood was compiled into a single volume, The Three Mystic Heirs, a book furiously destroyed by the Inquisition—except for one copy! And Louis d’Astarac...

The first in a non-sequential group of ‘Sensation’ novels by Henrietta Stackpole is 'A Kind Of Justice'. In the style of a populist Victorian ‘Sensation’ novel the characters are all action, mystery and secrecy who have to cope with duplicity, murder and more.Outraged by the...

Outback Australia in the mid-1800s. When rich, domineering squatter Angus McAlpin is murdered, the obvious suspect is the penniless artist, Herbert Lindsey - who wants to marry his daughter, Flora. McAlpin may have proclaimed that Flora would marry Herbert 'only over his dead body' -...

Frozen by day, burning by night… Celine knew it would come to a head one day. The missions she undertook for the shadowy Melinno society brought her entirely too close to the men she was keeping an eye on. And despite being warned she fell in love, not once, but twice. This time she will...

Amateur sleuths Frances Black and Tom Dod return to investigate a trio of deaths in a sleepy English village in the second of an intriguing new historical mystery series. Tom Dod’s Aunt Hetty is worried – three sudden deaths have occurred in the sleepy village of Durley Dean. They might...

**“This thoroughly enjoyable historical mystery provides plenty of surprising plot turns and will appeal to readers who enjoyed Ian McEwan’s early novels.” —**Library Journal Winter 1944: northern Italy is a battlefield, with Communist partisans locked in vicious conflict with the forces...

RICHES NOT ROMANCE, WAS HER AIM — SO SHE FOUGHT AGAINST LOVE ALL THE WAY! “The time is the Eighteen Seventies; the place is gaudy, lavish San Francisco. Anneke Villard, of haunting grace, comes to the city on the Golden Gate with Hepsibah, her duenna, from Kentucky. There is no love in...

In the England of 1883, the MacFarlane family has earned a reputation for being titans of the rail, coal, and textile industries. Elder brother Henry toes the line in all respects but younger brother Horace has allowed a shadow to fall on their spotless record with his dalliances with the ladies....