Traditional British category: 5721 books
by Ted Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
**Famously adapted into the iconic film starring Michael Caine, *Get Carter—*originally published as Jack’s Return Home—ranks among the most canonical of crime novels.
With a special Foreword by Mike Hodges, director of Get Carter
It’s a rainy night in the mill town of Scunthorpe...
The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries Volume Two
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, Strong Poison, The Five Red Herrings, and Have His Carcase
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
The British aristocrat and sleuth takes on four more puzzling whodunits in this beloved series from “one of the greatest mystery story writers” (Los Angeles Times).
A gentleman needs hobbies. For Lord Peter Wimsey—a Great War veteran with a touch of shell shock—collecting rare books, sampling...
by Margery Allingham
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Gentleman sleuth Albert Campion tries to solve the murder of a prominent publisher in this “vivid and witty” British mystery (The New York Times).
Scandal hits the prestigious publishing house of Barnabas when one of the directors is found dead in a locked cellar. All eyes are on the other...
Five Little Pigs
A Hercule Poirot Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2019
Five Little Pigs is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in May 1942 under the title of Murder in Retrospect[ and in UK by the Collins Crime Club in January 1943 although some sources state that publication occurred in November...
by Dorothy L. Sayers
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
In this installment of the “literate and delightful” Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, Harriet Vane’s honeymoon with the dapper British detective is marred by murder (Chicago Tribune).
It took several near-death experiences for Lord Peter Wimsey to convince Harriet Vane to be his wife, but...
A Lonely Death
An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
“Todd’s Ian Rutledge mysteries are among the most intelligent and affecting being written these days.”
—Washington Post
Critics have called Charles Todd’s historical mystery series featuring shell-shocked World War One veteran Inspector Ian Rutledge “remarkable” (New York Times...
by C. S. Harris
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2020
Sebastian St. Cyr investigates the mysterious life and death of a nobleman accused of murder in this enthralling new historical mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of Why Kill the Innocent....
It's June 1814, and the royal families of Austria, Russia, and the German states have gathered...
The Angel Court Affair
A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
In New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry, the glorious era when Britain reigned supreme has found its most brilliant modern interpreter. Perry’s gripping new Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel invites us back to Victorian London, where greed and ambition never sleep, and passion sometimes runs...
by Anne Perry
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Inspector Pitt is charged with murder in this “gripping and highly satisfying” entry in the New York Times–bestselling Victorian mystery series (Publishers Weekly).
At the behest of his superior, Thomas Pitt reopens a case gone cold. Three years prior, Robert York, an important member...
The Confession
An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
“One of the best historical series being written today.”
—Washington Post
“Todd once and for all establishes the shell-shocked Rutledge as the genre’s most complex and fascinating detective.”
—Entertainment Weekly
The Confession is historical crime fiction at its finest,...
Superfluous Women
A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
In England in the late 1920s, The Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, on a convalescent trip to the countryside, goes to visit three old school friends in the area. The three, all unmarried, have recently bought a house together. They are a part of the generation of "superfluous women"—brought...
Death At Wentwater Court
The First Daisy Dalrymple Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 1994
It's the early 1920s in England--the country is still recovering from the Great War and undergoing rapid social changes that many are not quite ready to accept. During this heady and tumultuous time, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple, the daughter of a Viscount, makes a decision shocking to her class:...
Death of a Dishonorable Gentleman
A Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Lady Montfort has been planning her annual summer costume ball for months, and with scrupulous care. Pulling together the food, flowers and a thousand other details for one of the most significant social occasions of the year is her happily accepted responsibility. But when her husband's degenerate...
Fatal Enquiry
A Barker & Llewelyn Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Brimming with wit, atmosphere, and unforgettable characters, FATAL ENQUIRY reintroduces private enquiry agent Cyrus Barker and his assistant, Thomas Llewellyn, and their unforgettable world of Victorian London.
Some years ago, Cyrus Barker matched wits with Sebastian Nightwine, an aristocrat...