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

The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives
Daughter of Egypt
The Dreadfuls
A Ghastly Catastrophe (Veronica Speedwell, #10)
Ruby Falls
The Star from Calcutta (Perveen Mistry, #5)
A Love Most Daring (Bow Street #3)
Heiress of Nowhere
A Day of Judgment (Inspector Ian Rutledge #25)
The Harvey Girl
Who Killed The Earl of Moran? (Casebook of Barnaby Adair #13)
Never Spar with a Viscount (Secret Society of Governess Spies, #3)
The Fourth Princess
The Heir of Whitestone
Enola Holmes and the Clanging Coffin (Enola Holmes #10)
When the Wolves Are Silent (Sebastian St. Cyr, #21)
The Last Secret of Lily Adams
The Murder at World's End (Stockingham & Pike, #1)
The Sicilian Inheritance
Last Twilight in Paris
A Ghastly Catastrophe (Veronica Speedwell, #10)
Homecoming
The Heir of Whitestone
Woman on Fire
The Lost Heiress: A Novel
The Predicament
The Missing Pages
Precipice
The Lost Masterpiece
The Museum Detective
Silent in the Grave by Deanna RaybournWhat Angels Fear by C.S. HarrisCrocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth PetersAnd Only to Deceive by Tasha AlexanderThe Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
Regency and Victorian Mysteries
702 books — 485 voters
PIRATE’S ALLEY by Thomas J LevequeAn Unexpected Peril by Deanna RaybournA Wicked Conceit by Anna Lee HuberWhat the Devil Knows by C.S. HarrisMurder at the Royal Botanic Gardens by Andrea Penrose
Historical Mystery 2021
90 books — 76 voters

Mary, Queen of Scots by Kathryn LaskyThe Wild Queen by Carolyn MeyerSpy for the Queen of Scots by Theresa BreslinMy Contrary Mary by Cynthia HandThe Prophecy by Lily Blake
Mary, Teen of Scots
23 books — 17 voters
The Grand Sophy by Georgette HeyerFrederica by Georgette HeyerDevil's Cub by Georgette HeyerVenetia by Georgette HeyerCotillion by Georgette Heyer
Favorite Georgette Heyer Book!
76 books — 811 voters

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)
Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs, #1)
The Anatomist's Wife (Lady Darby Mystery, #1)
And Only to Deceive (Lady Emily, #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)
When Gods Die (Sebastian St. Cyr, #2)

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