Historical crime and mysteries Books

Brutal violence has swept across a strife-torn Poland, a spark that could set the Soviet prison of Eastern Europe ablaze.Desperate to avoid history repeating itself, the West has dangerous plans, and Bill Cable, now the British Ambassador in Vienna,...

Dr Nazim Khan is the secretive mastermind of Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme, and the target of British Intelligence officer Sarah Cable, now twenty-six, ambitious and dangerous. Her task is to worm her way into his trust...The job is distasteful,...

"I felt I was eavesdropping on genuine 19th-century grave robbers . . . the author's skilled prose . . . convinced me. I felt I was there in the rough and tumble streets of 1830s London. Grotesque, pathetic, yet with poignant moments of calm and welcome...

Quarantines, masks, death-terms familiar to anyone who faced the so-called Spanish Flu of 1918. World-wide, it is estimated that the horrifying influenza killed more than 50 million people, significantly more than did the guns of the Great War,...

In The Detective, The Woman and The Pirate’s Bounty, Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler retrace the steps of pirates as they uncover a conspiracy at the heart of Florida’s islands. Death threats and gangsters are not enough to stop the...

It is 1878, and Dr. Poppy Stamford has reluctantly rekindled her relationship with Sherlock Holmes. Though it has been almost four years since they parted on uneasy terms and he continues to suppress his feelings for her, they are still intrigued and...

In 1910, American author and social critic Jack London began writing The Assassination Bureau, Ltd., a work that he never completed. Now, thanks to the recently discovered manuscript of Dr. John Watson, we know why. The early part of London's book...

Beryl Stapleton felt joy, when her husband Jack was sucked into the Grimpen Mire. Free of his oppressive evil, she opened a fashionable dress shop in London. Known as The Widow of Dartmoor, her enterprise is a success . . . until she is caught, at 2am ...

London, 1922: Two years after helping Sherlock Holmes solve the Hangman Murders, American journalist Enoch Hale becomes even more intimately involved in another puzzling mystery. Langdale Pike, veteran purveyor of gossip to the trash newspapers, is...

Sherlock Holmes, the world's "only unofficial consulting detective", was first introduced to readers in A Study in Scarlet published by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887. It was with the publication of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, however, that the...

Jewel thefts, missing persons, even murder are all elements in the world of the great detective Sherlock Holmes. What connects the stories in this book is that the cases he and his biographer Dr. John H. Watson investigate are based on adventures...

The prettiest flowers can be deadly...Detective duo Mrs Jameson and Marjorie Swallow are called to investigate when a renowned garden designer suspects that someone is sabotaging her priceless Himalayan Sapphire Lilies, ahead of the 1923 Chelsea Flower...

Can Dora and Rex solve this cold case without ending up in hot water?London, 1923. In a Mayfair dining room, Theodora Laurent and Lord Rex Bankes-Fernsby make an incredible discovery. Rex's sister Caledonia is a naturally gifted codebreaker. Upon hearing...

Have you ever lived somewhere with a past?In 1973 Deborah Gordon moves to a new house in the country. She discovers a secret history hidden within its walls that points to a fifty year old unsolved murder. Obsessed with finding the killer, Deborah is...

Enter a monster-filled version of 1820s London, where creatures of myth walk the bustling streets, ladies with claws are taught to hide their strength, and a clever detective faces an impossible crime... When the harpy who haunts Theo Essex's dreams...

Aspiring reporter Sophie Strong uncovers deadly secrets lurking in the aisles of a 1912 department store. Will she risk everything in her quest to expose a killer?In 1912 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, aspiring reporter Sophie Strong yearns for a thrilling...

In ancient Rome, a woman flees for her life. Her enemies are those she once called 'brother'. Hidden beneath her blue cloak are secrets men will kill for.Forgeries that prove the newly self-appointed bishops are not followers of the way, but pretenders...

As Lady Cecilia Branstoke convalesces after a severe bout of influenza, an urgent plea for assistance arrives from their friend, Mrs. Montgomery: The Earl of Soothcoor languishes in a goal in Lincolnshire, accused of murder. The victim? Mrs. Montgomery's...

Fiona Mahoney's past returns to haunt her present as a prizefighter from her hometown becomes the only suspect in a gruesome, high-society murder.No one in London knows what befell Fiona's family back in Ireland.At least, no one left alive.That is until...

Paris, France - 1830A disgraced snob artist, André Alinard, must find new work in a peasant neighbourhood. While on one such job-hunting walk, he watches the National Security unearth a skeleton. When Inspector Laurent Laois holds up the skull, André's...

In the spring of 1820, Captain Brandon Alexander Trevaline, a veteran of Waterloo and the last scion of an old and distinguished family, was accused of dishonoring the wife of the local Squire. Despite his firm denials, nothing less than a duel would...

Bud Haddock's senses had a shell in the chamber with the hammer back. Somebody was back there. He could tell from the itch in his neck. This warning about trouble had never let him down. Having to be a man before his time on a ranch in 1850s Texas,...

Emile Gaboriau, who was Paul Féval's secretary, penned these two masterpieces of early detective novels in 1867:The Orcival Murder: Poachers discover the lifeless body of Countess of Tremorel in the woods near her castle. Her home has been ransacked and...

For Barbara Vaughn, a checkpoint between Jordan and the newly formed Israel is the threshold to painful self-discovery Barbara Vaughn is a scholarly woman whose fascination with religion stems partly from a conversion to Catholicism, and partly from...

The Malice Domestic cozy anthology series returns with a new take on "cozy" mysteries in the Agatha Christie tradition. Here are 22 original stories (and one modern classic reprint) set at conventions, conferences, and gatherings of all kinds! Included...

He began by breaking things that morning. He broke the glass of water on his night stand. He knocked it crazily against the opposite wall and shattered it. Yet it shattered slowly. This would have surprised him if he had been fully awake, for he had only...

August 1144. Osbern de Lench is known far and wide as a hard master, whose temper is perpetually frayed. After his daily ride to survey his land, his horse returns to the hall riderless, and the lifeless body of the lord is found soon after. Was it the...

It's early 1944 and Richmond, Virginia is a devil's paradise. Ration scams and police corruption are rampant while the inflated black market commands top dollar.Detective Sergeant Bennie Sherwood, fresh off a soul-scarring tour of duty with the Marines,...

A unique Irish detective thriller. A rare insight into Gaelic culture.Nobody knows much about reclusive Irish historian Muiris (Mos) O'Súilleabháin except that he doesn't share his secrets freely. Mos, however, has a "sixth sense for history, a unique...

Ethan Gage is back in The Trojan Icon, the richest novel yet in the New York Times bestselling series of historical thrillers. Hurtling from the snowy palaces of Russia’s St. Petersburg to the shadowy harem of Constantinople in 1806, the...

Miss Phoebe Astin of The Economic Undertaker has always spoken with spirits as they leave this life on their way to the next, so a visit from a senior nurse asking to unburden herself was business as usual. But when the nurse's confession reveals she was...

"Unforgettable female leads power this stellar historical mystery"(BookLife Reviews) by Robert Brighton, told with "writing that is on par with the cunning of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and David Morell" (Manhattan Book Review).A swirling tale of industrial...

Granada, Spain 1887. A brief respite in Spain brings the opportunity of a lifetime when botanist Linnea Wren is invited to contribute to the restoration of the Alhambra gardens. But before she can begin digging, a body is found in the Generalife, and...

Dopo gli eventi degli Imperi de Vetro, l'Eta del Terzo Arconte e l'Ombra di Populla, l'Alba della Pantera Solare segue le gesta di quattro diversi campioni; cercando di lasciare il segno e fare il possibile per prevenire la distruzione totale, nelle...

New Zealand, 1881: Sgt. Frank Hardy is confined to Somes Island in Wellington Harbour, in quarantine, when an American detective tells him that his father is in trouble. A shipboard romance has put him in the sights of a gang from San Francisco...

NEW ZEALAND, 1878: Has the missing man been murdered in the dense bush, or has he simply abandoned his wife and children for another woman?Sergeant Frank Hardy and his new wife Mette attempt to solve two real mysteries from nineteenth-century New...

The Mysteries of Heron Dyke: A Novel of Incident. Volume 3, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing...

Ce roman raconte l’histoire de prisonniers de guerre qui décident de s’enfuir d’un un camp allemand après avoir tué deux sentinelles. Mal commencée, cette fuite s’avère difficile. De dissensions...

Hugo Bettauer: Das blaue Mal. Der Roman eines AusgestoßenenErstdruck: Wien, Gloriette-Verlag, 1923Vollständige Neuausgabe.Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth.Berlin 2016.Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: Peter Paul...

Hugo Bettauer: Faustrecht. RomanErstdruck: Wien/Prag/Leipzig, Strache, 1920Vollständige Neuausgabe.Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth.Berlin 2016.Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: Lesser Ury, Abend im Café Bauer,...

Adolf Sommerfeld: Die Tanzdiele am Kurfürstendamm. Ein Kriminalroman aus dem dunklen Berlin der ZwangigerjahreErstdruck: Leipzig-Reudnitz, Ostra-Verlag Leipziger Graphische Werke, 1923 in der Reihe Aus dem dunkelsten Berlin.Neuausgabe.Herausgegeben von...

Wilkie Collins: John Jagos Geist. Eine KriminalerzählungThe Dead Alive, auch John Jago's Ghost. Erstdruck: London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1874. Hier nach der anonymen deutschen Überestzung, Berlin, Verlag von Otto Janke, 1875.Neuausgabe.Herausgegeben...

Hans Hyan: Zwischen Tag und Traum. Ein Kriminalroman aus Berlin von 1916Erstdruck: Berlin, Kronen-Verlag, 1916.Neuausgabe.Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth.Berlin 2021.Der Text dieser Ausgabe wurde behutsam an die neue deutsche Rechtschreibung angepasst...

Un tableau de Raphaël qui disparaît en plein jour, le conservateur du musée du Louvre qui se volatilise...Quatre étudiantes de l'École du Louvre, cocktail décapant de caractères aussi différents que complémentaires, mènent l'enquête pour dénouer l'énigme...

Brandon Shuster is a stock trader at Glacial Capital in the early 2010s. From the Flash Crash to Facebook's botched IPO, he's seen enough adrenaline rushes and near disasters to rethink his trading career. But when financial reporters suspect fraud at a...

Wessam Eldein presents The Quiz - 2nd Edition. The Quiz - 2nd Edition - Wessam Eldein. Where most stories begin with a once upon a time, John Carter's narrative begins with the end. The narrative is intriguing and starts with a unique premise. It...

He’s run away home. That’s what they say every time one of Charley Winslow’s friends vanishes from The Old Cross School for Boys.It’s just a tall tale. That’s what they tell Charley when he sees the ragged grey figure...