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

New Releases Tagged "Historical Mystery"

A Ghastly Catastrophe (Veronica Speedwell, #10)

The Star from Calcutta (Perveen Mistry, #5)

Who Killed The Earl of Moran? (Casebook of Barnaby Adair #13)

Never Spar with a Viscount (Secret Society of Governess Spies, #3)

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

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The Murder at World's End (Stockingham & Pike, #1)

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Historical Ghost Fiction

249 books — 366 voters

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76 books — 811 voters

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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

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582 books — 317 voters

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

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216 books — 108 voters

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294 books — 154 voters

Historical Mystery Books

What Angels Fear (Sebastian St. Cyr, #1)

A Curious Beginning (Veronica Speedwell, #1)

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

Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)

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

A Study in Scarlet Women (Lady Sherlock, #1)

Silent in the Sanctuary (Lady Julia Grey, #2)

Mistress of the Art of Death (Mistress of the Art of Death, #1)

Murder on Astor Place (Gaslight Mystery, #1)

Her Royal Spyness (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries, #1)

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

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

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“ Cromwell, a king in all but name... ”
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“ In the wee small hours, California Highway One north of Half Moon Bay is about as desolate as it gets. The narrow, twisting road was etched from sheer cliff faces that towered above me on the right and dropped away a hundred feet to the Pacific Ocean on my left. A soggy wool blanket of San Francisco's famous fog hung a few feet above the roadway, obscuring the stars and dribbling tiny spots of mist on my windshield. My headlights bored through the gap between road and fog, drilling an endless t ...more ”
― H.P. Oliver, Goodnight, San Francisco

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