Historical crime and mysteries Books

Um drama da Segunda Grande Guerra ajuda Janie, uma detetive amadora da década de 1960, a descobrir a verdade...Quando um desconhecido lhe pede ajuda, como é que sabe o que está verdadeiramente em jogo?Janie Juke tem reputação de conseguir encontrar...

The Art of Sherlock Holmes Global Edition 1 is truly unique. While there have been literally hundreds of Holmes pastiches written (even a few of mine), before our two volumes, The Art of Sherlock Homes-West Palm Beach and USA, there had never...

The recently unearthed diaries of the young Arthur Conan Doyle provide evidence, if not proof of the that Doyle knew Sherlock Holmes as early as 1878, when Holmes was working in the laboratory of Dr. Joseph Bell at the University of Edinburgh. Holmes, a...

Join Holmes and Watson on eleven original adventures, spanning their earliest collaboration to their service to the Crown in the Great War. Revisit A Study in Scarlet, return to The Copper Beeches, and learn the shocking truth behind the Bogus Laundry...

A client forsworn, a threatened town, and a Goliath of unimaginable proportions . . . Sherlock Holmes has survived a three-year vendetta against him by Moriarty’s remaining henchmen. Wounded and bleeding, with Mycroft’s help he clandestinely...

It is June 1884, a grey period for both the weather and Sherlock Holmes’ mood. A lack of compelling cases has left him bored and close once again to the dull embrace of the needle. Less than a month earlier, however, he had astonished Inspector...

Sherlock Holmes looks on idle and infuriated from the sidelines while evil has Whitechapel in the grip of fear, evil which bears the infamous name of – Jack the Ripper – a name set to raise the hackles on people’s necks for generations...

Radio legend Jim French was already well known for producing excellent radio dramas, as well as creating Imagination Theatre and its “Movies for your mind” when, in March 1998, the first episode of The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes...

A home invasion results in property damage. Children disappear and a disgruntled ex-employee is suspected. Girl visits relative, walks in on scene of carnage. A man searches for days, seeking his lost love. A young woman accuses her father's wife of...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is brought back to life in this new story created by Dr. Carlopio using the words of the original master in his unique editorial fiction method. The incomparable Sherlock Holmes is involved in the build-up to WWI ... we have a...

It's 1906. Far from England, the Ottoman Empire ruled by the despotic Sultan Abd-ul-Hamid 11 is on the verge of imploding. Rival Great Powers, especially Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany, sit watching like crows on a fence, ready to rush in to carve up the vast...

In 1893, Dr. Watson and Conan Doyle published what they believed was the last Sherlock Holmes story, "The Final Problem". The world was stunned, and The Strand Magazine rushed to fill the vacuum. Readers were soon introduced to a new detective, Martin...

Japanese Language Edition - The greatest mystery surrounding Sherlock Holmes comes to light--was he actually a woman? The master--or perhaps mistress--of disguise finally puts pen to paper to reveal a decades-long deception and, in so doing, uncovers...

Accompanied by Holmes and Watson, Mrs. Hudson crosses the ocean to attend the wedding of her cousin's daughter. They disembark to discover that the young lady's fiancée, a pitcher for the Brooklyn Bridegrooms, stands accused of an attempt...

For 500 years, the once powerful order of the Sibylline has kept the identity of its future prophetess hidden in the most famous painting in the world. Amid the chaos of post-World War II France, one woman discovers their ancient secret and its ability...

HIS LAST BOWby Sir Arthur Conan DoyleEDITION: Cactus Classics Large Print - 16 Point FontFONT: 16 point GaramondBOOK TRIM SIZE: 6" x 9" (15.2 cm x 22.9 cm)COVER: GlossyPAPER: CreamTABLE OF CONTENTS: YesCactus Classics Large Print (16 point...

Roy Melville goes to China to save his kidnapped father, who is being held for a million-dollar ransom in diamonds. On the voyage over he meets Myrna Lang, whose father is murdered in mid-ocean, and learns from her that their tragedies have a common...

John is a discredited CIA agent who has worked as a liaison with the drug cartels. He was escorted back to Sao Paulo in the final days before the critical 1989 Brasilian presidential election. The invasion of Panama is imminent, waiting on negotiations...

Worthy of Trust and Confidence is a western historical fiction book based on a mystery dective U.S. Secret Service crime in 1898.Three kids enter the Mousegate at Walt Disney World and each one becomes embedded with one of the three main characters. ...

For fans of ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD! A tale of murder, motorcycle gangs, Charlie Manson, and the man who starred as Marshal Hondo Bradley. After three years away, Rory Hawkins, a novelist, Korean War veteran, and ex-member of the MONGRELS...

The Extraordinary Banana Tree is not a war story. It is a love story in the time of war. It is the story of the developing love between Cheryl Flynn, Assistance Chief of Intelligence for the Defense Attache's Office in Saigon, and Billy Dobson, Manager...

novel by Anatole France, first published in 1881. It was his first full-length novel and established his reputation as a leading French writer. The book won the prestigious Prix de l'Académie française.The novel follows Sylvester Bonnard, an elderly...

The Ultimate Reprisal is a work of fiction, loosely, based on actual events over the last century. It is a tribute to the "FORGOTTEN GENERATION", those Italian immigrants who struggled through hard times: hard work, rejection, discrimination and a...

Our heroine, a young woman living outside Marseille, is delighted to marry a young medical doctor from Montpellier. The doctor shows an interest in studying illnesses, especially how to prevent the spread of disease. Unfortunately, his abilities and our...

La Maldición del Pirata: Una Aventura Llena de Espadas y Piratería es un relato épico de aventura, tesoro y peligro en alta mar.El Capitán Barbanegra y su tripulación son los piratas más temidos del Caribe, surcando los mares en busca de tesoro y...

A mystery novel set in turn-of-the-century New Orleans, following the efforts of a young lawyer to clear the name of a woman accused of murder. As he delves into the case, he discovers a web of corruption and deceit that threatens to ensnare him as well...

It’s 1968 and the world is on fire: war in Vietnam, riots in the USA and Europe, but not in Istanbul, where Turks go about their private lives and hippies smoke dope and make love in the Hippodrome. But the fire soon spreads to Turkey with plots to...

Heed the Apocalypse pushes the boundaries of reality to tell a gripping story of murder, committed and thwarted, as it marches with Martin Luther King Jr. and the 1963 protesters in Birmingham, Alabama, toward a startling conclusion. What if the events...

India und Matt glaubten, sie müssten nur Chronos finden, um all ihre Probleme zu lösen. Doch der Uhrenmagier wirft ebenso viele Fragen auf, wie er beantwortet, und bringt noch dazu Schwierigkeiten mit. Um Matts magische Taschenuhr zu reparieren, brauchen...

It was the most fashionable place to stay in London, until murder made a reservation. Solve the puzzle in this new mystery from USA Today bestselling author of the Glass and Steele series.December 1899. After the death of her beloved grandmother,...

Miss Matilda Hayward has a wedding to plan and while ordering her bridal bouquet in Bridal Lane, she finds a note in her sample bouquet requesting a liaison. Innocently believing the note to be a mix-up, Matilda engages her brother, Daniel, to attend the...

Journey through the colonies of nineteenth-century Australia with three standalone novels of love, loss, survival and redemption. Collection includes:One of Us BuriedIn 1806, a fateful decision sends Eleanor Marling from the salons of London to a prison...

Der Flucht aus der Hölle ist der neue Roman des spanischen Autors Francisco Angulo, der bereits mehrere Bestseller geschrieben hat und eine große Fangemeinde in Spanien und Lateinamerika hat.In seinem einnehmenden und fesselnden Stil...

1916, Bois de Bolante, France. The battles in the trenches are raging fiercer than ever. In a deserted mineshaft, French sappeurs discover an unconscious man, and nickname him The Mole.Claiming he has lost his memory, The Mole is convinced that he's...

Historischer Kriminalroman von der Nordseeküste. Mit Spürsinn, Mut und Hartnäckigkeit macht sich die Fischerstochter Bertha Linnewehrt auf die Suche nach dem wahren Mörder des jungen Mannes, der nach einer furchtbaren Unwetternacht - völlig entstellt -...

Luke's first mission for the incoming King is to investigate the administration of an aging, autocratic peer who is also a purveyor of magic. This complex peer is being undermined by a son who engages in dubious land deals and who supports...

In the year 1889, Swayzee, Indiana bakery owner Nikolai Kaminski appeared in Grant County Circuit Court on charges of murdering his wife Sasha, and her accused lover, Tony Romero. Before being sent off to the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City to...

A model town at war with itself . . . George Pullman created an ideal community for his railroad car workers, complete with every amenity they could want or need. But when hard economic times hit in 1894, lay-offs follow and the workers can no longer pay...

In the heart of the English countryside, a discovery is made that threatens to overturn centuries of Church history. When Father Michael Dominic uncovers a cryptic diary leading to a lost 1st century Gospel, he is thrust into a labyrinth of deceit,...

A quaint English fete. A village full of secrets. A shocking murder.In 1920s England, private detective Henry Fleming is visiting his friend, retired author Lily Riley, in the quintessentially English village of Fulbridge.Tragedy strikes when a resident...

In the stifling summer of 1826, the death of a young man in Hyde Park uncovers a web of blackmail and corruption so far-reaching that even the redoubtable Constable Sam Plank is shocked. A Quaker charity hides a terrible secret, a dangerous enmity is...

Following the report of the sighting of a body lying half covered in snow on a mountain in the North West Highlands of Scotland, a mountain rescue team is called upon to recover it. The team includes the local detective chief inspector and after a late...