Felonious Category: Historical

From the Ancient World to the 1940s, and everything in between.


The Riddle of the River


The Riddle of the River

By Catherine Shaw

Book Title • Catherine Shaw • Historical • Vanessa Weatherburn

The 19th century is on its way out, as are many of the Victorian conventions regarding women. The elaborate bustles ...

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Black Plumes


Black Plumes

By Margery Allingham

Book Title • Historical • Margery Allingham • Vintage

Gabrielle Ivory was once a society beauty of such exquisite arrogance that she stared down a queen. But now, nearing ...

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Mystery Mile


Mystery Mile

By Margery Allingham

Albert Campion • Book Title • Hard Boiled • Historical • Margery Allingham • Vintage

The Second Book in the Albert Campion series With his first case (The Crime at Black Dudley), Albert ...

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Germanicus


Germanicus

By David Wishart

Book Title • David Wishart • Historical • Marcus Corvinus

The Second Book in the Marcus Corvinus Series; first U.S. publication No good deed goes unpunished. Marcus Corvinus, ...

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Ovid


Ovid

By David Wishart

Book Title • David Wishart • Historical • Marcus Corvinus

The First Book in the Marcus Covinus Series Nobleman by birth, loutish party boy by temperament, Marcus Corvinus is a ...

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The Library Paradox


The Library Paradox

By Catherine Shaw

Book Title • Catherine Shaw • Historical

A Vanessa Weatherburn Mystery A famous--and famously anti-Semitic--professor has been killed, shot in his own library, and the police, eager to ...

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Bertie and the Crime of Passion


Bertie and the Crime of Passion

By Peter Lovesey

Bertie • Book Title • Historical • Peter Lovesey

A Bertie, Prince of Wales mystery The year 1889, however, marks his most eventful trip. First, he is introduced to ...

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Bertie and the Seven Bodies


Bertie and the Seven Bodies

By Peter Lovesey

Bertie • Book Title • Historical • Peter Lovesey

A Bertie, Prince of Wales mystery The eldest son of Queen Victoria, “Bertie” will one day be King Edward VII. ...

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Forests of the Night


Forests of the Night

By David Stuart Davies

Book Title • David Stuart Davies • Historical

By all accounts, Pamela Palfrey was plain and painfully shy—the sort of girl that few people miss in the best ...

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Spectres in the Smoke


Spectres in the Smoke

By Tony Broadbent

Book Title • Historical • Jethro the Burglar • Tony Broadbent

The return of Jethro the Cockney cat-burglar; winner of the Bruce Alexander award for Best Historical Crime Novel of ...

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The Smoke


The Smoke

By Tony Broadbent

Book Title • Historical • Jethro the Burglar • Tony Broadbent

The First Book in award-winning mystery series featuring Jethro, a cat burglar in 1940s London It's 1947, and London, having ...

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