Historical Mystery Books
The Agatha Award-winning mystery inspired by the Wright Brothers’ real-life sister!
Inspector Ian Rutledge of Scotland Yard embarks on a journey to the rugged coastline of England to investigate a murder in a place where the memory of WWI ...
Mary Russell is faced with a test of her allegiances when her long-lost uncle reappears—and brings with him a case that even Sherlock Holmes couldn't ...
The final chapter of the Electra McDonnell series follows safecracker Ellie as she embarks on a dangerous mission to rescue a group of escaped POWs in World ...
The equally brilliant real-life sister of the famous flying Wright Brothers, Katharine Wright, investigates an unsettling death at the 1904 World's Fair in ...
From the author of The Ashes of London, comes a new historical mystery set in the last days of WWII'Ten out of ten' The Times
In late Victorian England Private enquiry agents Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn find themselves in the middle of the deadly chaos when powerful forces ...
Living in Greece at the turn of the twentieth century, widow Minnie Harper struggles to find her place in a swiftly changing world. But when a local woman is ...
May, 1941. One of the senior choristers at St Paul's, Edwin Roberts, is found beaten to death in the crypt of the cathedral and Detective Chief Inspector ...
Description
The historical mystery or historical whodunit is a subgenre of two literary genres: historical fiction and mystery fiction. These works are set in a time period considered historical from the author’s perspective, with the central plot revolving around solving a mystery or crime (typically murder). Although works combining these genres have existed since at least the early 1900s, many credit Ellis Peters’s Cadfael Chronicles (1977–1994) for popularizing what would become known as the historical mystery.