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Notable Historical Mysteries

Historical mysteries in a literary style (i.e. Umberto Eco)

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Authors & Titles

• Akunin, Boris: Erast Fandorin series
  
  1. The Winter Queen
     
  2. Murder on the Leviathan
     
  3. The Turkish Gambit
     
  4. The Death of Achilles
     
  5. Special Assignments
     
• Akunin, Boris: Sister Pelagia series
  
  1. Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog
     
  2. Sister Pelagia and the Black Monk
     
  3. Sister Pelagia and the Red Cockerel
     
• Barnes, Jonathan: The Somnambulist
  
• Bennett, Ronan: Zugzwang
  
• Black, Benjamin: The Silver Swan
  
• Blaine, Michael: The Midnight Band of Mercy (1893)
  
• Blissett, Luther: Q
  
• Boyne, John: Crippen
  
• Bradby, Tom: The White Russian
  
• Brightwell, Gerri: The Dark Lantern
  
• Burges, Dennis: Graves Gate
  
• Carr, Caleb: Alienist series
  
  1. The Alienist
     
  2. The Angel of Darkness
     
• Claudel, Philippe: By a Slow River
  
• Conde, Maryse: Who Slashed Celanire's Throat?
  
• Cornwell, Bernard: Gallows Thief
  
• de Kretser, Michelle: The Hamilton Case
  
• Dunning, John: Two O'Clock, Eastern Wartime (1942)
  
• Eco, Umberto: The Island of the Day Before
  
• Eco, Umberto: The Name of the Rose
  
• Family Passions (edited by Jayne Ann Krentz)
  
• Franklin, Ariana: Mistress of the Art of Death series
  
  1. Mistress of the Art of Death
     
  2. The Serpent's Tale
     
  3. Grave Goods
     
  4. A Murderous Procession
     
• Gleeson, Janet: The Grenadillo Box
  
• Grant, Tracy: Charles and Melanie Fraser series
  
  1. Daughter of the Game
     
  2. Beneath a Silent Moon
     
• Gray, John MacLachlan: Edmund Whitty series
  
  1. The Fiend in Human
     
  2. White Stone Day
     
• Grimes, Martha: Emma Graham series
  
  1. Hotel Paradise
     
  2. Cold Flat Junction
     
  3. Belle Ruin
     
  4. Fadeaway Girl
     
• Guterson, David: Snow Falling on Cedars
  
• Høeg, Peter: Smilla's Sense of Snow
  
• Holman, Sheri: A Stolen Tongue
  
• Jaffe, Michele: Renaissance series
  
  1. The Stargazer
     
  2. The Water Nymph
     
• Jinks, Catherine: The Inquisitor
  
• Kerr, Philip: Dark Matter
  
• Kohout, Pavel: The Widow Killer
  
• Kristeva, Julia: Murder in Byzantium
  
• Kurzweil, Allen: The Grand Complication
  
• Liss, David: Benjamin Weaver series
  
  1. A Conspiracy of Paper
     
  2. A Spectacle of Corruption
     
  3. The Devil's Company
     
• McCammon, Robert: Matthew Corbett series
  
  1. Speaks the Nightbird
     
  2. The Queen of Bedlam
     
  3. Mister Slaughter
     
• Mills, Mark: Amagansett
  
• Morris, R.N.: Porfiry Petrovich series
  
  1. The Gentle Axe
     
  2. A Vengeful Longing
     
• Oates, Joyce Carol: Mysteries of Winterthurn
  
• O'Neill, Anthony: The Lamplighter
  
• Pamuk, Orban: My Name is Red
  
• Pearl, Matthew: The Dante Club
  
• Pearl, Matthew: The Poe Shadow
  
• Pears, Iain: An Instance of the Fingerpost
  
• Pears, Iain: The Portrait
  
• Perez-Reverte, Arturo: Captain Alatriste series
  
  1. Captain Alatriste
     
  2. Purity of Blood
     
  3. The Sun Over Breda
     
  4. The King's Gold
     
  5. The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet
     
• Perez-Reverte, Arturo: The Fencing Master
  
• Redfern, Elizabeth: The Music of the Spheres
  
• Rose, Joel: The Blackest Bird
  
• Rowland, Laura Joh: The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Bronte
  
• Sansom, C.J.: Matthew Shardlake series
  
  1. Dissolution (1537)
     
  2. Dark Fire
     
  3. Sovereign
     
  4. Revelation
     
• Schatzing, Frank: Death and the Devil
  
• Schechter, Harold: Edgar Allen Poe series
  
  1. Nevermore
     
  2. The Hum Bug
     
  3. The Mask of Red Death
     
• Shields, Joy: The Fig Eater
  
• Silvis, Randall: Edgar Allen Poe series
  
  1. On Night's Shore
     
  2. Disquiet Heart
     
• Slater, Harrison Gradwell: Night Music
  
• Smith, Martin Cruz: Rose
  
• Taylor, Andrew: Roth series
  
  1. The Four Last Things
     
  2. The Judgement of Strangers
     
  3. The Office of the Dead
     
• Taylor, Chad: Shirker
  
• Tobin, Betsy: Bone House
  
• Tosches, Nick: In the Hand of Dante
  
• Volpi, Jorge: In Search of Klingsor
  
• Wall, Alan: The School of Night
  
• Watada, Terry: Kuroshio: The Blood of Foxes
  
• Waters, Sarah: Affinity
  
• Zimler, Richard: The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon