Historical crime and mysteries Books

Nazi spies and murder intrude upon the uneasy exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. In July 1942, Sir Harry Oakes, a wealthy businessman and acquaintance of the Duke and Duchess, was found murdered on Nassau. The murder is unsolved to this day. Could...

In the decadent and dangerous Shanghai of 1929, someone is spying for the Japanese, and the International Settlement's British police are on the hunt. Now, in the midst of the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival, American aviator Jack "Ace" Jordan becomes the prime...

Over the years the tide brought many foreign and mysterious things to the shores of Texada Island. On this morning, though, it was the body of Ernie Tsan, a quiet but powerful labour activist who fought for the safety of local miners, that washed ashore...

A sordid scandal rocks the Glass household and threatens to ruin Matt’s family unless he can suppress it. But after word gets out, and a rare magical coronet is stolen, he and India find themselves scrambling to recover the heirloom and suppress...

India Steele is desperate. Her father is dead, her fiancé took her inheritance, and no one will employ her, despite years working for her watchmaker father. Indeed, the other London watchmakers seem frightened of her. Alone, poor, and at the end...

Summoned from his comfortable Toronto college life, Christopher Pokaik returns to visit the grandfather who raised him. Surprised by the evolving culture of the newly created Nunavut Territory, he's befriended by an Inuit RCMP Special Constable who helps...

Hugo Bettauer: Hemmungslos. Ein Kriminalroman aus WienErstdruck Wien, Verlag Müller, 1920. Untertitel: Kriminal-Roman aus der jüngsten Zeit.Neuausgabe.Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth.Berlin 2016, 2. Auflage.Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas...

Hugo Bettauer: Der Frauenmörder. Ein Kriminalroman aus BerlinErstdruck Wien, Gloriette-Verlag, 1922.Neuausgabe.Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth.Berlin 2016, 2. Auflage.Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: Gustav...

1886 wird die Millionenmetropole Chicago, deren Bevölkerung zu einem Drittel aus deutschen Einwanderern besteht, zum Schauplatz des ersten Bombenanschlags in der Geschichte der USA. Die Brüder Jack und Bob Hunhoff, zwei ehemalige Polizisten aus Chicago,...

Unfall-Ermittler Cervinus hat es endlich geschafft: Er wird in die Mordkommission versetzt. Doch einen letzten Unfall soll er noch ermitteln: Ein Mann ist im Licher Stadtturm in den Tod gestürzt. Das tragische Ereignis schlägt hohe Wellen, befindet sich...

In 1982, Italian financier Roberto Calvi, known as "God's Banker," was discovered hanging under London's Blackfriars Bridge. What wasn't found was the briefcase he was known to have had with him the night before, reportedly stuffed with incriminating...

Break a leg is supposed to be just an expression.It's Halloween, and Rosemary and her friend are headed to a castle in the country to watch someone be murdered!It's all in good fun, of course; Vera's theatre troupe is putting on a murder mystery weekend...

Biddy Woodson, one of twelve siblings in a sharecropper family living in 1934 Oklahoma, has learned how to sass and vinegar her way through life, even when it takes a bit of cussing to get through those hellish stacks of after-meal dishes.  Trouble...

In den South Regent Mansions gibt es alle modernen Annehmlichkeiten … Mord eingeschlossen London, Februar 1924. Olive Belgrave, die diskrete High Society- Spürnase, freut sich über ihre neue Wohnung in den South Regent Mansions, wo...

Un omicidio nell'alta società. Una giovane detective piena di spirito. Riuscirà la protagonista a scoprire chi è l'assassino prima che un innocente venga ingiustamente incolpato?   Londra, 1923. Olive Belgrave ha...

Chasses au trésor de minuit, fêtes costumées, et meurtre au sang bleu . . .  Novembre 1923. Gigi, une ancienne camarade d'école d'Olive, l'invite à Londres. Elle va découvrir que la...

Ein verschneites Landhaus, ein vermisster Butler und ein Fall zur Weihnachtszeit … Olive und Jasper waren sich noch nie näher – bis auf eine Sache. Jasper ist immer noch verschwiegen, was sein häufiges Verschwinden aus der...

Mitternächtliche Schnitzeljagden, Kostümpartys und ein blaublütiger Mord … November 1923. Olives Schulkameradin Gigi lädt Olive nach London ein, weil Gigis exzentrische Großmutter um ihr Leben fürchtet –...

Ein opulentes Londoner Stadthaus und der Fluch einer Mumie … … und eine mutige Detektivin. Es ist Oktober 1923, und Olive Belgrave hat einen neuen Fall. Ihre Auftraggeberin, Lady Agnes, glaubt nicht an Flüche, und sie heuert Olive...

Zylinder und Frack. Nerze und Mord …November 1923. Eine Einladung zu einer Hausparty auf dem Anwesen Parkview Hall ist eine willkommene Abwechslung für Olive Belgrave, eine frischgebackene berufstätige Frau, die zur Löserin der...

LARGE PRINT EDITIONA 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...

Una sfarzosa casa londinese, la maledizione di una mummia . . . . . . e una coraggiosa detective. È l'ottobre del 1923 e Olive Belgrave ha un nuovo caso. La sua cliente, Lady Agnes, non crede alle maledizioni e la assume per dimostrare che suo zio,...

In 1993, a rural Missouri community becomes the bloody backdrop for the crime thriller Wounds of Injustice. John Gerber, a Marine Corps veteran who served as a sniper during the Vietnam War, is married to his second wife, Carol, who becomes involved in a...

"Linda Smith," a fugitive terrorist formerly of the Front de Libération du Québec, receives a commission that will end her fugitive status and give her high social standing and wealth – if she can successfully accomplish...

Three adventures of Sherlock Holmes, very much in the style of the original stories, by a writer who has been acclaimed as the reincarnation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.The Odessa Business introduces a new member of the Holmes clan, as Sherlock Holmes...

Shortlisted for the Historical Novel Society's 2015 Indie Prize, A Just and Upright Man shows us life in northeast England in the 1760s not as lived by the rich and powerful but from the point of view of those at the bottom of the heap. Life was...

Can it be true? Is Octavius Bear actually accused of murder? When Professor Hercules Ovibos, an extortionate fraud pursuing a law suit against Octavius, is found floating in the Detroit River, evidence brought forward by the Professor’s lawyers...

"A psychological account of a crime"--that's how Fyodor Dostoyevsky described his novel Crime and Punishment, which tells of two horrific axe murders in St. Petersburg.  It becomes much more than a mere “account,”...

More exploits of super sleuth Octavius Bear and his cohorts. Just for fun, this series swaps anthropomorphic animals for humans in a world very similar to our own 21st century Earth minus Homo Sapiens. Are there other alternate universes? Could be! Never...

1906. HMS Dreadnaught, Britain's latest Battleship lies in her moorings in a Portsmouth dockyard awaiting her Sea Trials. Her design and armament renders the current warships of other Nations obsolete. Secret items of novel yet vital radio detection...

Five years after Jenny Winston vanishes the night of the infamous Roswell UFO crash, Holmes and Watson must solve the mystery of the young woman’s disappearance. Immediately they find themselves in a web of Cold War intrigue, stolen secrets, double...

Octubre 1938. El corresponsal de prensa extranjero, Jack Telford, está huyendo por el norte de España, territorio que se encuentra ahora en manos del franquismo. Acaba de matar a una figura importante y cercana al Generalísimo...

Mandarin Chinese Version - A collection of short stories and poems in support of The Undershaw Preservation Trust. Including contributions from Mark Gatiss, Stephen Fry, Douglas Wilmer and many more.

In 1903 zag 'Het lege huis' het licht. In dit verhaal keert Sherlock Holmes terug naar Baker Street 221B en legt aan zijn trouwe vriend, Dokter John Watson, uit hoe hij zijn dood bij de Reichenbach waterval in scène heeft gezet. In 2012 kwam het misdrijf...

Wir schreiben das Jahr 1903: Die Geschichte 'Das leere Haus' erscheint und erzählt, wie Sherlock Holmes in die Baker Street 221b zurückkehrt und seinem treuen Freund Dr. John Watson schildert, wie er zuvor am Reichenbachfall seinen Tod vorgetäuscht hatte...

In 'Sherlock Holmes and The Dead Boer at Scotney Castle' the great consulting detective comes up against the rich and powerful Kipling League. Dr Watson recounts the extraordinary events which took place on a spacious early summer day in the Sussex and...

Across the globe, modern humans struggle with racial and ethnic strife despite belonging to the same species, Homo Sapiens. Imagine a world with multiple species in the Homo genus, as was the case 30 to 40 thousand years ago. How would we characterize...

The Great War is over, and jobs are scarce. Childhood friends Tommy Beresford and Prudence "Tuppence" Cowley meet and agree to start their own business as The Young Adventurers. They are hired for a job that take them to many dangerous situations,...

In an exclusive residential neighborhood, a U.S. Senator’s wife has died. Tommy Jacks and his fellow journalists don’t believe the police chief’s story blaming it on natural causes. It has the smell of a crime. So begins...

This royal visit is going to off with a bang...Edward, the Prince of Wales, is about to step foot on Kiwi soil and Grace is frantically finishing gowns for her wealthy clients to wear at the balls thrown in his honour. But then a horrible accident and a...

It's the beginning of a new year in Montreal-1956. A mysterious American woman from St. Paul checks into a luxury hotel and is found in her room the next day dead from an apparent suicide. The police examine the scene, and the chief is eager to close the...

Reminiscent of the styles and stories of Agatha Christie, Rhys Bowen, and Richard Osman, Silent Winter Solstice is an intriguing mystery full of 1960s small-town nostalgia and memorable characters.Winter Solstice, 1968. While most of the world is...

In a small town in rural Mississippi in the 1960s, Willie flirts with the beautiful Althea at a bar and gives her his cigarette lighter as a memento of their meeting. Little does he know a piece of his soul is attached to it. The evil woman casts a spell...

Unlikely Friends Unite to Save a Wrongly Accused American Soldier and a Fragile Treaty of Peace in The Historical Mystery, The Paris Deception, from Author David O. Stewart--1919-1920, Paris and Berlin--In the wake of The Great War, the city of Paris...