Mystery & Detective - Historical

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See Delphi and Die: A Marcus Didius F...

Lindsey Davis

With safe seas, good roads, and provinces rich in heritage sites, Marcus Didius Falco's fellow countrymen have become voracious tourists. Greece, home of the ancient Olympic Games, is a favorite destination for Seven Sights Trave, a s...

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Published: May 2011

A Woman of Consequence: The Investiga...

Anna Dean

DIVDIV“If Jane Austen had written Miss Marple, she would have been Dido Kent, the inquisitive spinsterB.”--/BKirkus I(starred review)/I/DIVDIVI/I /DIVDIVDIVIA Woman of Consequence/I, the third installment in Anna Dean’s charmin...

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Published: Jan 2013

Anthem for Doomed Youth: A Daisy Dalr...

Carola Dunn

In the Spring of 1926, the corpses of three men are found in shallow graves off the beaten path in Epping Forest outside of London—each shot through the heart and bearing no identification. DCI Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard, the le...

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Published: Jan 2012

A Grave Concern: The Twenty Second Ch...

Susanna Gregory

Identifying the murderer of the Chancellor of the University is not the only challenge facing physician Matthew Bartholomew. Many of his patients have been made worse by the ministrations of a 'surgeon' recently arrived from Nottingha...

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Published: Sep 2017

Death of a Scholar

Susanna Gregory

Trouble is afoot again in medieval Cambridge—Matthew Bartholomew has reached his 20th case The University should have been delighted when an influential courtier decides to found a new College in Cambridge, but the older Colleges a...

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Published: Aug 2015

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

Treason at Lisson Grove (Charlotte an...

Anne Perry

The man who lies bleeding to death in a London brickyard is no ordinary drifter but a secret informant prepared to divulge details of a potentially devastating international plot against the British government. Special Branch officer ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2016

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

A Sudden, Fearful Death: A William Mo...

Anne Perry

In a London hospital, Prudence Barrymore, a talented nurse who had once been one of Florence Nightingale's angels of mercy in the Crimean War, meets sudden death by strangulation. Private inquiry agent William Monk is engaged to inves...

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Published: Sep 2009

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

Venus in Copper: A Marcus Didius Falc...

Lindsey Davis

Rome, AD 71.  Marcus Didius Falco is deperate to leave the notorious Lautumiae prison - though being bailed out by his mother is a slight indignity...     Things go from bad to worse though when a group of nouveau riche ex-slaves...

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Published: Jan 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 Midnight Hour (Brighton Mysteries...

Elly Griffiths

The Brighton police force is on the hunt for another killer, but this time they have some competition—a newly formed all-women’s private eye firm, led by none other than the police chief’s wife. Newly minted PI Emma ...

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Published: Nov 2021

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

Last Seen in Massilia: A Novel of Anc...

Steven Saylor

[MP3-CD audiobook format in Vinyl case.] [Read by Ralph Cosham] Steven Saylor delivers another excellent episode in the adventures of his distinguished hero, Gordianus the Finder. -- In 49 BC, in the city of Massilia (modern-day Marse...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Sep 2013

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

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

The Black Tower

Louis Bayard

From the acclaimed author of Mr. Timothy and The Pale Blue Eye, this literary thriller features Eugène Vidocq, a criminal who transformed himself into the worlds first and greatest detective

Abridged CD
Published: Sep 2008

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...

Paperback
Published: May 2016
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