Best Historical Mysteries Books
Best Free Historical Mysteries Books of 2024
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Murder at High Tide Book Reviews
Lee StraussMurder's all wet! It's 1956 and WPC (Woman Police Constable) Rosa Reed has left her groom at the altar in London. Time spent with her American cousins in Santa Bonita, Ca...
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Cold Press - A Gripping British Mystery Thriller Book Reviews
David BradwellA fashion photographer. A cub reporter. The missing persons story of a lifetime… London, 1993. Trainee investigative journalist Danny Churchill would do anything for his boss. And ...
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Murder by Misrule Book Reviews
Anna CastleBrilliant Francis Bacon is at a loss and in danger. Francis Bacon is charged with investigating the murder of a fellow barrister at Gray's Inn. He recruits his unwanted proté...
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Last Jew in Prague Book Reviews
Colin J CohenWhile struggling to survive a freezing rainy night in the desert, a homeless man recalls what his grandfather Hermann struggled to survive many years earlier and how his connection...
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TV Safe Book Reviews
Jim Stinson(Newly proofed and reformatted text) Big bucks incite big greed, and the quiz show OhPun Sesame! Offers a $1 million prize that people will kill for. Vulnerable celebrities like sh...
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Sharko Book Reviews
Ben BorlandGangsters and sharks and the hunt for a serial killer in Depressionera Sydney. This fastmoving thriller combines love, lust and murder in the heat of an Australian summer. Take som...
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The Amersham Rubies Book Reviews
Rhys BowenA delightful short story from Rhys Bowen featuring turnofthecentury private investigator Molly Murphy Before Molly Murphy crossed the Atlantic or even had an inkling that she might...
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Past Crimes Book Reviews
Ashley GardnerStep into the past through three historical mysteries that reach from Imperial Rome to Victorian London. A Soupçon of Poison (Kat Holloway Victorian Mysteries) Kat Holloway, a youn...
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Kissing The Enemy Book Reviews
Leighann DobbsFrederica Vale is about to cause a scandal that will make her a target of the most dangerous spy network in England. London, 1806. Fredrica “Freddie” Vale would do anything to prot...
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Deadly Act Book Reviews
D.A. JacobsonIn the Fall of 1590, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, playwright and news pamphlet writer Connolly Flynn is about to have his first play produced at the Rose theater in Londo...
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Four Max Carrados Detective Stories Book Reviews
Ernest BramahThis is a short story book. Ernest Bramah is mainly known for his 'Kai Lung' books Dorothy L Sayers often used quotes from them for her chapter headings. In his lifetime...
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The Good Knight Book Reviews
Sarah WoodburyWhen a king is murdered on the way to his wedding, Gareth & Gwen join forces in their first mystery together! Five years after Gareth walked away from Gwen in disgrace, she...
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Bittersweet Book Reviews
Jane LingardHannah's world changes forever on the night of her sister's 18th birthday. Life in the small country town will never be the same. But just what did happen when the storm ...
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Double Exposure Book Reviews
Jim Stinson(Newly proofed and reformatted) Ah, the romantic 1980s! No Internet, Facebook, or Twitter. Telephones tied to the wall. Music on vinyl or flimsy cassettes and don’t even start on ...
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The Sandie Shaw Mysteries, Murder at the Green Mill Book Reviews
R T GreenWhen Sandie witnesses her client committing a cutanddried murder, her head tells her to walk away. Her heart tells her she can't. Keeping away from the mob is Sandie's fi...
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Death of a Young Lieutenant Book Reviews
B.R. StatehamJake Reynolds is an art thief. A master artist who can create an exact replica of any famous canvas, in intricate detail. So precise and elegant is his work that even today, hangin...
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Death and the Chapman Book Reviews
Kate SedleyOne man’s disappearance is another man’s destiny... The birth of a new medieval detective. The political situation in 1471 is complex and the war between the Yorkist and Lancastria...
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South Wind Book Reviews
Norman DouglasThis is a novel book. The bishop was feeling rather seasick. Confoundedly seasick, in fact. This annoyed him. For he disapproved of sickness in every shape or form. His own state o...
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The Spiritualists and the Detectives Book Reviews
Allan PinkertonThis is a story book. Most commercial and uncommercial travellers filling the swift shuttles of transit between the East and the West will remember that while passing through Michi...
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Murder on the Titanic Book Reviews
Evelyn WeissAs the Titanic sinks, a notorious playboy aristocrat is hideously murdered. To find the killer, Professor Axelson and his assistant Agnes question the survivors under hypnosis. As ...
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The Hunt Book Reviews
Oscar de MurielFeatures an exclusive extract from A Fever of the Blood the brilliant new Case for Frey & McGray, which publishes in February 2016 Christmas, 1888. After a thoroughly tryi...
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The Missing Gun Book Reviews
W H OxleyLondon in the autumn of 1939: the early months of World War 2. Hitler has just conquered Poland, but life in London continues much as it did in peacetime, albeit a little more rest...
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The Yellow Crayon Book Reviews
Edward Phillips OppenheimIt was late summer time, and the perfume of flowers stole into the darkened room through the half opened window. The sunlight forced its way through a chink in the blind, and stret...
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A Bride of the Plains Book Reviews
Baroness Emma OrczyThis is a historical book. The story is set in Hungary and the scene is laid in a village close to the Maros. The sharp, cracked sound of the Elevation bell breaks the silence of t...
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The Twelfth Tablet Book Reviews
Tom HarperTwelve golden tablets sit in museums around the world, each created by unknown hands and buried in ancient times, and each providing the dead with the route to the afterlife. Each ...
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A Jewish Chaplain in France Book Reviews
Lee Joseph LevingerThis is a story book. In giving the story and the opinions of a Jewish chaplain in the American Expeditionary Forces, some statement is necessary of the work of the chaplains as a ...
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Finger of Guilt Book Reviews
Paul GrossmanIn Finger of Guilt , star investigator Hans Fraksa claims that the Kinderfresser, the vicious child eater of Berlin, has been caught. So why is he worried discarded, gnawed bones w...
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The Old Man in the Corner Book Reviews
Baroness Emma OrczyThis is a historical book. The Old Man in the Corner is an unnamed armchair detective who appears in a series of short stories written by Baroness Orczy. He examines and solves cri...
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The Mystery of Francis Bacon Book Reviews
William T. SmedleyIs there a mystery connected with the life of Francis Bacon? The average student of history or literature will unhesitatingly reply in the negative, perhaps qualifying his answer b...
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The Film of Fear Book Reviews
Frederic Arnold KummerRuth Morton finished her cup of coffee, brushed a microscopic crumb from her embroidered silk kimono, pushed back her loosely arranged brown hair, and resumed the task of opening h...
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The Murder on the Links Book Reviews
Agatha ChristieWhen Hercule Poirot and his associate Arthur Hastings arrive in the French village of MerlinvillesurMer to meet their client Paul Renauld, they learn from the police that he has be...
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The Count of Samerand and the Ghost of Belgravia Book Reviews
Bryan M. PorterIt is April 5, 1864, when the Count of Samerand busy in his experiments is commissioned by his good friend inspector James Wright in the murder of Robert Melbourne, a wealthy lando...
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Murder at the Mayfair Hotel Book Reviews
C.J. ArcherIt was the most fashionable place to stay in London, until murder made a reservation. Solve the puzzle in this new cozy historical murder mystery from USA Today bestselling author ...
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The Night Of Book Reviews
Michael ListerLucas Burke and Alix "Biade" Baker are Panama City Beach PIs specializing in missing persons caseswork they were led to by their own sister's disappearance. ...
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This House to Let Book Reviews
William Le QueuxThis British mystery by BritishFrench novelist William Le Queux, published in 1921, begins with the discovery by two constables of a body in an empty house in London. This is one o...
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What Kind of Man... Book Reviews
Greenberry BaxterWhat Kind of Man... has been nominated for Global eBook Awards in the category Sci Fi Fantasy Paranormal/Fantasy Supernatural PREPOSTEROUS, NUTTY and ENTERTAINING Franklin Pierce, ...
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Cromwell Road Book Reviews
Rowan Scot-RyderHolmes and Watson meet the famous medium Madame B., whose message for Watson has surprising results.
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The Case at Barton Manor Book Reviews
Emily QueenNot all widows are elderly...and not all ladies are proper. If one more person gives Rosemary Lillywhite unwanted advice on when to stop mourning the loss of her beloved husband, s...
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Toutes les aventures de Sherlock Holmes Book Reviews
Arthur Conan DoyleEnsemble des textes des aventures de Sherlock Holmes de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle dans l’ordre chronologique. L’ensemble des textes et des images utilisées sont dans le domaine public...
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POISONED LEGACY Book Reviews
Jenny WheelerUnsolved deaths. Untold treasure. Can she uncover the secret of her inheritance before dark forces claim another victim? Graysie Castellanos is ready to take her final bow. When th...
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The English Gentleman Book Reviews
Bryan M. PorterWilliam Bathurst has disappeared from his home in Westminster, leaving his father and mother, the duke and duchess worried for their favourite son. To aid them in their search for ...
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Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives Book Reviews
Allan PinkertonIt is a story book. The Mississippi River has for many years more especially since the close of the war been infested by a class of men who never would try to get an honest living,...
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Mister Mottley and the Key of D Book Reviews
Ellen SeltzHas Mottley gone mad? That night in Venice, standing on a balcony rail with an angry Slovak swordsman and a halfnaked fiddler holding them at bay, Mottley's friend Debenham re...
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Calamity Under the Chandelier Book Reviews
Camilla BlytheMurder. Manor homes. Malfunctioning chandeliers. Hollywood starlets are supposed to be happily on set in sunny California, and not trapped in drafty manor houses during ferocious s...
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The Wallet of Kai Lung Book Reviews
Ernest BramahThe sun had dipped behind the western mountains before Kai Lung, with twenty li or more still between him and the city of Knei Yang, entered the camphorlaurel forest which stretche...
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Uncle Bernac Book Reviews
Arthur Conan DoyleThis is a mystery book. Looking for a replacement to Sherlock Holmes after the author had killed him off in 1894, Doyle wrote this murder mystery in the dying years of the 19th cen...
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At the Villa Rose Book Reviews
Alfred Edward Woodley MasonIt is a novel book. Harry Wethermill, the brilliant young scientist, a graduate of Oxford and Munich, has made a fortune from his inventions, and is taking a vacation at AixlesBain...
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Truck Shot Book Reviews
Jim StinsonStoney Winston is teaching a film workshop at lowrent Angeles Commercial Design College when the college president is literally blown away. To pry loose the insurance transfusion n...
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Tempest in the Tea Room Book Reviews
Libi AstaireThere's trouble afoot in Regency London's Jewish community, and no one to stop the crimesuntil wealthywidowerturnedsleuth Mr. Ezra Melamed teams up with an unlikely pair:...
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Low Angles Book Reviews
Jim StinsonAgainst his better judgment, Hollywood foot soldier Stoney Winston arrives at a fleabitten desert Hamlet to help Diane LaMotta direct her first feature, a nobudget indie action pot...
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Love Lies Bleeding Book Reviews
Laini GilesWhen a hiker near Ithaca stumbles across an old skeleton buried with a rusty buttonhook and a locket full of pictures, Senior Investigator Frank Conley of the New York State Police...
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The Radio Boys at the Sending Station Book Reviews
Allen ChapmanIt is a mystery and detective book. Since this volume was written an epoch making invention has been announced to the radio world. It is the superregenerative system developed by E...
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The Fireraisers Book Reviews
Malcolm ArchibaldDundee, Scotland, 1862. After the mill of businessman Matthew Beaumont burns to the ground, Detective Sergeant George Watters is sent to investigate. Soon, George discovers that th...
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Ernestine Book Reviews
Nell PetersJack the Ripper at last, the truth. Britain's most famous (or infamous) serial killer unmasked.
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The Cavalier of the Apocalypse Book Reviews
Susanne AlleynHistorical mystery. In the icy winter of 1786, in the final years before the French Revolution, hunger, cold, and seething frustration with the iron grip of France’s absolute monar...
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The Forgotten Painting Book Reviews
Gabriel FaragoGold Medal Winner at Readers' Favorite 2018 International Book Awards Contest in Fiction Short Story/Novella Category Outstanding Novella 2018 IAN Book of the Year Awards When...
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The Black Eagle Mystery Book Reviews
Geraldine BonnerThe following story of what has been known as The Black Eagle Mystery has been compiled from documents contributed by two persons thoroughly conversant with the subject. These are ...
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Shalaby and Fecklace Spend the Night in an Unnatural Manor Book Reviews
Chantelle MessierShalaby W. Shalaby, Victorian private detective, regards it as his civic duty to investigate the grave mystery of the counterfeited ladies' hats. His companion, Byron Fecklace...
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The Desolate Garden Book Reviews
Daniel KempWhat secrets lie in the ledgers of the Royal Government Bank? After Harry Paterson is summoned to London following his father's murder, he finds out that the late Lord Elliot ...
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Samuel Boyd of Catchpole Square A Mystery Book Reviews
B. L. FarjeonThis 1899 mystery novel by British writer and journalist B(enjamin) L(eopold) Farjeon, detective Dick Remington investigates a murder and other criminal matters with the help of a ...
Best Paid Historical Mysteries Books of 2024
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Murder at High Tide Book Reviews
Lee StraussMurder's all wet! It's 1956 and WPC (Woman Police Constable) Rosa Reed has left her groom at the altar in London. Time spent with her American cousins in Santa Bonita, Ca...
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Cold Press - A Gripping British Mystery Thriller Book Reviews
David BradwellA fashion photographer. A cub reporter. The missing persons story of a lifetime… London, 1993. Trainee investigative journalist Danny Churchill would do anything for his boss. And ...
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Murder by Misrule Book Reviews
Anna CastleBrilliant Francis Bacon is at a loss and in danger. Francis Bacon is charged with investigating the murder of a fellow barrister at Gray's Inn. He recruits his unwanted proté...
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Last Jew in Prague Book Reviews
Colin J CohenWhile struggling to survive a freezing rainy night in the desert, a homeless man recalls what his grandfather Hermann struggled to survive many years earlier and how his connection...
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TV Safe Book Reviews
Jim Stinson(Newly proofed and reformatted text) Big bucks incite big greed, and the quiz show OhPun Sesame! Offers a $1 million prize that people will kill for. Vulnerable celebrities like sh...
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Sharko Book Reviews
Ben BorlandGangsters and sharks and the hunt for a serial killer in Depressionera Sydney. This fastmoving thriller combines love, lust and murder in the heat of an Australian summer. Take som...
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The Amersham Rubies Book Reviews
Rhys BowenA delightful short story from Rhys Bowen featuring turnofthecentury private investigator Molly Murphy Before Molly Murphy crossed the Atlantic or even had an inkling that she might...
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Past Crimes Book Reviews
Ashley GardnerStep into the past through three historical mysteries that reach from Imperial Rome to Victorian London. A Soupçon of Poison (Kat Holloway Victorian Mysteries) Kat Holloway, a youn...
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Kissing The Enemy Book Reviews
Leighann DobbsFrederica Vale is about to cause a scandal that will make her a target of the most dangerous spy network in England. London, 1806. Fredrica “Freddie” Vale would do anything to prot...
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Deadly Act Book Reviews
D.A. JacobsonIn the Fall of 1590, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, playwright and news pamphlet writer Connolly Flynn is about to have his first play produced at the Rose theater in Londo...
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Four Max Carrados Detective Stories Book Reviews
Ernest BramahThis is a short story book. Ernest Bramah is mainly known for his 'Kai Lung' books Dorothy L Sayers often used quotes from them for her chapter headings. In his lifetime...
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The Good Knight Book Reviews
Sarah WoodburyWhen a king is murdered on the way to his wedding, Gareth & Gwen join forces in their first mystery together! Five years after Gareth walked away from Gwen in disgrace, she...
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Bittersweet Book Reviews
Jane LingardHannah's world changes forever on the night of her sister's 18th birthday. Life in the small country town will never be the same. But just what did happen when the storm ...
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Double Exposure Book Reviews
Jim Stinson(Newly proofed and reformatted) Ah, the romantic 1980s! No Internet, Facebook, or Twitter. Telephones tied to the wall. Music on vinyl or flimsy cassettes and don’t even start on ...
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The Sandie Shaw Mysteries, Murder at the Green Mill Book Reviews
R T GreenWhen Sandie witnesses her client committing a cutanddried murder, her head tells her to walk away. Her heart tells her she can't. Keeping away from the mob is Sandie's fi...
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Death of a Young Lieutenant Book Reviews
B.R. StatehamJake Reynolds is an art thief. A master artist who can create an exact replica of any famous canvas, in intricate detail. So precise and elegant is his work that even today, hangin...
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Death and the Chapman Book Reviews
Kate SedleyOne man’s disappearance is another man’s destiny... The birth of a new medieval detective. The political situation in 1471 is complex and the war between the Yorkist and Lancastria...
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South Wind Book Reviews
Norman DouglasThis is a novel book. The bishop was feeling rather seasick. Confoundedly seasick, in fact. This annoyed him. For he disapproved of sickness in every shape or form. His own state o...
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The Spiritualists and the Detectives Book Reviews
Allan PinkertonThis is a story book. Most commercial and uncommercial travellers filling the swift shuttles of transit between the East and the West will remember that while passing through Michi...
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Murder on the Titanic Book Reviews
Evelyn WeissAs the Titanic sinks, a notorious playboy aristocrat is hideously murdered. To find the killer, Professor Axelson and his assistant Agnes question the survivors under hypnosis. As ...
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The Hunt Book Reviews
Oscar de MurielFeatures an exclusive extract from A Fever of the Blood the brilliant new Case for Frey & McGray, which publishes in February 2016 Christmas, 1888. After a thoroughly tryi...
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The Missing Gun Book Reviews
W H OxleyLondon in the autumn of 1939: the early months of World War 2. Hitler has just conquered Poland, but life in London continues much as it did in peacetime, albeit a little more rest...
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The Yellow Crayon Book Reviews
Edward Phillips OppenheimIt was late summer time, and the perfume of flowers stole into the darkened room through the half opened window. The sunlight forced its way through a chink in the blind, and stret...
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A Bride of the Plains Book Reviews
Baroness Emma OrczyThis is a historical book. The story is set in Hungary and the scene is laid in a village close to the Maros. The sharp, cracked sound of the Elevation bell breaks the silence of t...
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The Twelfth Tablet Book Reviews
Tom HarperTwelve golden tablets sit in museums around the world, each created by unknown hands and buried in ancient times, and each providing the dead with the route to the afterlife. Each ...
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A Jewish Chaplain in France Book Reviews
Lee Joseph LevingerThis is a story book. In giving the story and the opinions of a Jewish chaplain in the American Expeditionary Forces, some statement is necessary of the work of the chaplains as a ...
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Finger of Guilt Book Reviews
Paul GrossmanIn Finger of Guilt , star investigator Hans Fraksa claims that the Kinderfresser, the vicious child eater of Berlin, has been caught. So why is he worried discarded, gnawed bones w...
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The Old Man in the Corner Book Reviews
Baroness Emma OrczyThis is a historical book. The Old Man in the Corner is an unnamed armchair detective who appears in a series of short stories written by Baroness Orczy. He examines and solves cri...
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The Mystery of Francis Bacon Book Reviews
William T. SmedleyIs there a mystery connected with the life of Francis Bacon? The average student of history or literature will unhesitatingly reply in the negative, perhaps qualifying his answer b...
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The Film of Fear Book Reviews
Frederic Arnold KummerRuth Morton finished her cup of coffee, brushed a microscopic crumb from her embroidered silk kimono, pushed back her loosely arranged brown hair, and resumed the task of opening h...
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The Murder on the Links Book Reviews
Agatha ChristieWhen Hercule Poirot and his associate Arthur Hastings arrive in the French village of MerlinvillesurMer to meet their client Paul Renauld, they learn from the police that he has be...
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The Count of Samerand and the Ghost of Belgravia Book Reviews
Bryan M. PorterIt is April 5, 1864, when the Count of Samerand busy in his experiments is commissioned by his good friend inspector James Wright in the murder of Robert Melbourne, a wealthy lando...
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Murder at the Mayfair Hotel Book Reviews
C.J. ArcherIt was the most fashionable place to stay in London, until murder made a reservation. Solve the puzzle in this new cozy historical murder mystery from USA Today bestselling author ...
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The Night Of Book Reviews
Michael ListerLucas Burke and Alix "Biade" Baker are Panama City Beach PIs specializing in missing persons caseswork they were led to by their own sister's disappearance. ...
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This House to Let Book Reviews
William Le QueuxThis British mystery by BritishFrench novelist William Le Queux, published in 1921, begins with the discovery by two constables of a body in an empty house in London. This is one o...
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What Kind of Man... Book Reviews
Greenberry BaxterWhat Kind of Man... has been nominated for Global eBook Awards in the category Sci Fi Fantasy Paranormal/Fantasy Supernatural PREPOSTEROUS, NUTTY and ENTERTAINING Franklin Pierce, ...
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Cromwell Road Book Reviews
Rowan Scot-RyderHolmes and Watson meet the famous medium Madame B., whose message for Watson has surprising results.
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The Case at Barton Manor Book Reviews
Emily QueenNot all widows are elderly...and not all ladies are proper. If one more person gives Rosemary Lillywhite unwanted advice on when to stop mourning the loss of her beloved husband, s...
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Toutes les aventures de Sherlock Holmes Book Reviews
Arthur Conan DoyleEnsemble des textes des aventures de Sherlock Holmes de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle dans l’ordre chronologique. L’ensemble des textes et des images utilisées sont dans le domaine public...
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POISONED LEGACY Book Reviews
Jenny WheelerUnsolved deaths. Untold treasure. Can she uncover the secret of her inheritance before dark forces claim another victim? Graysie Castellanos is ready to take her final bow. When th...
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The English Gentleman Book Reviews
Bryan M. PorterWilliam Bathurst has disappeared from his home in Westminster, leaving his father and mother, the duke and duchess worried for their favourite son. To aid them in their search for ...
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Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives Book Reviews
Allan PinkertonIt is a story book. The Mississippi River has for many years more especially since the close of the war been infested by a class of men who never would try to get an honest living,...
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Mister Mottley and the Key of D Book Reviews
Ellen SeltzHas Mottley gone mad? That night in Venice, standing on a balcony rail with an angry Slovak swordsman and a halfnaked fiddler holding them at bay, Mottley's friend Debenham re...
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Calamity Under the Chandelier Book Reviews
Camilla BlytheMurder. Manor homes. Malfunctioning chandeliers. Hollywood starlets are supposed to be happily on set in sunny California, and not trapped in drafty manor houses during ferocious s...
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The Wallet of Kai Lung Book Reviews
Ernest BramahThe sun had dipped behind the western mountains before Kai Lung, with twenty li or more still between him and the city of Knei Yang, entered the camphorlaurel forest which stretche...
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Uncle Bernac Book Reviews
Arthur Conan DoyleThis is a mystery book. Looking for a replacement to Sherlock Holmes after the author had killed him off in 1894, Doyle wrote this murder mystery in the dying years of the 19th cen...
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At the Villa Rose Book Reviews
Alfred Edward Woodley MasonIt is a novel book. Harry Wethermill, the brilliant young scientist, a graduate of Oxford and Munich, has made a fortune from his inventions, and is taking a vacation at AixlesBain...
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Truck Shot Book Reviews
Jim StinsonStoney Winston is teaching a film workshop at lowrent Angeles Commercial Design College when the college president is literally blown away. To pry loose the insurance transfusion n...
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Tempest in the Tea Room Book Reviews
Libi AstaireThere's trouble afoot in Regency London's Jewish community, and no one to stop the crimesuntil wealthywidowerturnedsleuth Mr. Ezra Melamed teams up with an unlikely pair:...
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Low Angles Book Reviews
Jim StinsonAgainst his better judgment, Hollywood foot soldier Stoney Winston arrives at a fleabitten desert Hamlet to help Diane LaMotta direct her first feature, a nobudget indie action pot...
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Love Lies Bleeding Book Reviews
Laini GilesWhen a hiker near Ithaca stumbles across an old skeleton buried with a rusty buttonhook and a locket full of pictures, Senior Investigator Frank Conley of the New York State Police...
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The Radio Boys at the Sending Station Book Reviews
Allen ChapmanIt is a mystery and detective book. Since this volume was written an epoch making invention has been announced to the radio world. It is the superregenerative system developed by E...
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The Fireraisers Book Reviews
Malcolm ArchibaldDundee, Scotland, 1862. After the mill of businessman Matthew Beaumont burns to the ground, Detective Sergeant George Watters is sent to investigate. Soon, George discovers that th...
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Ernestine Book Reviews
Nell PetersJack the Ripper at last, the truth. Britain's most famous (or infamous) serial killer unmasked.
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The Cavalier of the Apocalypse Book Reviews
Susanne AlleynHistorical mystery. In the icy winter of 1786, in the final years before the French Revolution, hunger, cold, and seething frustration with the iron grip of France’s absolute monar...
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The Forgotten Painting Book Reviews
Gabriel FaragoGold Medal Winner at Readers' Favorite 2018 International Book Awards Contest in Fiction Short Story/Novella Category Outstanding Novella 2018 IAN Book of the Year Awards When...
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The Black Eagle Mystery Book Reviews
Geraldine BonnerThe following story of what has been known as The Black Eagle Mystery has been compiled from documents contributed by two persons thoroughly conversant with the subject. These are ...
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Shalaby and Fecklace Spend the Night in an Unnatural Manor Book Reviews
Chantelle MessierShalaby W. Shalaby, Victorian private detective, regards it as his civic duty to investigate the grave mystery of the counterfeited ladies' hats. His companion, Byron Fecklace...
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The Desolate Garden Book Reviews
Daniel KempWhat secrets lie in the ledgers of the Royal Government Bank? After Harry Paterson is summoned to London following his father's murder, he finds out that the late Lord Elliot ...
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Samuel Boyd of Catchpole Square A Mystery Book Reviews
B. L. FarjeonThis 1899 mystery novel by British writer and journalist B(enjamin) L(eopold) Farjeon, detective Dick Remington investigates a murder and other criminal matters with the help of a ...