Historical Mystery

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, and the central plot involves the solving of a mystery or crime (usually murder). Though 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. ...more

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Enola Holmes and the Clanging Coffin (Enola Holmes #10)

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Silent in the Grave (Lady Julia Grey, #1)

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The Anatomist's Wife (Lady Darby Mystery, #1)

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The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #1)

Murder on Black Swan Lane (Wrexford & Sloane, #1)

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Quotes Tagged “Historical Mystery”

“ I have, at last, come to understand my role. It is not to discourage your exuberance or your audacity. How could I want to when those are the very qualities I admire most? If I have lectured or harangued in the past, it is because I am afraid. Every moment of every day I am afraid. Afraid of losing that which I have come to realize I cannot live without. But I do not want a small and stifled version of you. I want you- in all your intrepid and audacious glory. I want you just as you are, the en ...more ”
― Deanna Raybourn, A Grave Robbery

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“ Quizá la tarea del que ama a los hombres consista en lograr que éstos se rían de la verdad, lograr que la verdad ría, porque la única verdad consiste en aprender a liberarnos de la insana pasión por la verdad. ”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

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