HISTORICAL MYSTERY BIBLIOGRAPHY
Compiled by Dean James
Symbols used:
"+ " means out-of-print;
"*" means not yet published in the U.S. as of 11/95
Note: this is not a comprehensive bibliography
of historical mysteries, but it covers as many periods (up through World War II) as
possible. Espionage novels and Sherlock Holmes pastiches (in general) are not included.
Some books found in other bibliographies are just so obscure that the likelihood of
finding them is low and they have not been included.
INDEX
THE ANCIENT WORLD including: Ancient
Egypt, Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome
THE MEDIEVAL WORLD including: China , England, France, Ireland and Italy
TUDOR/STUART ENGLAND & SCOTLAND
SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY JAPAN
COLONIAL AMERICA
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND, FRANCE & AMERICA
EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND & AMERICA; REGENCY
VICTORIAN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND
NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA
NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE
BELLE-EPOQUE FRANCE (ca. 1900)
BRITISH EMPIRE, EUROPE & AMERICA
(1900-1930)
THE 1930s
WORLD WAR II ERA
SHORT STORY ANTHOLOGIES
THE ANCIENT WORLD
Ancient Egypt
Christie, Agatha
Death
Comes as the End
*Gill, Anton
City of the Horizon
City of Dreams
City of the Dead
Robinson, Lynda S.
Murder in the Place of Anubis
Murder at the God's Gate
Ancient Greece
+ Doody, Margaret
Aristotle, Detective
Ancient Rome
+ Burns, Ron
Roman Nights
Roman Shadows
+ Connell, Charles
Meet Me at Philippi
Most Delicious Poison
Davis, Lindsey
Silver Pigs
Shadows in Bronze
Venus in Copper
The Iron Hand of Mars
Poseidon's Gold
*Last Act in Palmyra
*Time to Depart
*A Dying Light In Corduba
+ Hambly, Barbara
The Quirinal Hill Affair (aka Search the Seven Hills)
+ O'Hagan, Joan
A Roman Death
+ Roberts, John Maddox
SPQR
SPQR II: The Catiline Conspiracy
The Sacrilege
The Temple of the Muses
Saylor, Steven
Roman Blood
Arms of Nemesis
Catilina's Riddle
A Murder on the Appian Way
The Venus Throw
*Todd, Marilyn
I, Claudia
THE MEDIEVAL WORLD
China
(seventh century A.D.)
Van Gulik, Robert
The Chinese Nail Murders
The Chinese Bell Murders
The Chinese Gold Murders
The Chinese Maze Murders
Dee Goong An (aka Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee)
The Emperor's Pearl
The Haunted
Monastery
Judge Dee at
Work
The Lacquer
Screen
The Monkey and the
Tiger
Murder in
Canton
Necklace and
Calabash
The Phantom of
the Temple
Poets and
Murder (aka The Fox-Magic Murders)
The Red Pavilion
The Willow Pattern
England
+ Allison, E. M. A.
Through the Valley of Death
*Clancy, Gertrude & Joseph
Death is a Pilgrim (Chaucer)
+ Crowley, Duane
Riddle Me a Murder (Chaucer as detective)
Doherty, P. C.
+ The Death of a
King
+ The Fate of
Princes
+ The
Whyte Harte
+ The
Serpent Amongst the Lilies
+ *Dove Amongst the Hawks
Hugh Corbett series:
+ Satan in St.Mary's
+ The Crown in
Darkness
+ Spy in
Chancery
+ Angel
of Death
The Prince of
Darkness
+ Murder
Wears a Cowl
The Assassin
in the Greenwood
Song of
a Dark Angel
*Satan's
Fire
Canterbury Tales series:
An
Ancient Evil
*A Tapestry
of Murders
Frazer, Margaret
The Novice's Tale
The Servant's Tale
The Outlaw's Tale
The Bishop's Tale
The Boy's Tale
Grace, C. L. (P.C. Doherty).
A Shrine of Murders
The Eye of God
The Merchant of Death
Harding, Paul (P.C. Doherty).
The
Nightingale Gallery
The
House of the Red Slayer (aka The Red Slayer)
*Murder Most Holy
*The Anger of God
*By Murder's Bright Light
*The House of Crows
Highsmith, Domini
Keeper at
the Shrine
*Guardian at
the Gate
*Jecks, Michael
The Last Templar
The Merchant's Partner
Marston, Edward
The
Wolves of Savernake
The
Ravens of Blackwater
The
Dragons of Archenfeld
Morson, Ian
Falconer's
Crusade
Falconer's
Judgment
Falconer and the
Hand of God
Peters, Ellis
A Morbid Taste for Bones
One Corpse Too Many
Monk's Hood
St. Peter's Fair
The Leper of St. Giles
The Virgin in the Ice
The Sanctuary Sparrow
The Devil's Novice
Dead Man's Ransom
The Pilgrim of Hate
An Excellent Mystery
The Raven in the Foregate
The Rose Rent
The Hermit of Eyton Forest
The Confession of Brother
Haluin
The Heretic's
Apprenctice
The Potter's
Field
The Summer of
the Danes
The Holy
Thief
Brother Cadfael's
Penance
+ Potter, Jeremy
A Trail of Blood
Robb, Candace M
The Apothecary Rose
The Lady Chapel
The Nun's Tale
Sedley, Kate
Death and the Chapman
The Plymouth Cloak
The Weaver's Tale (aka The Hanged Man)
The Holy Innocents.
France
Newman, Sharan
Death Comes as Epiphany
The Devil's Door
The Wandering
Arm
Ireland
Tremayne, Peter
Absolution by Murder
*Shroud for the Archbishop
*Suffer Little
Children
Italy
Eco, Umberto
The Name of the Rose
Eyre, Elizabeth
Death of a Duchess
Curtains for the Cardinal
Poison for the Prince
Bravo for the Bride
*Axe for an Abbot
Herman, George
Comedy of Murders (Leonardo da Vinci)
Carnival of Saints
+ Stevermer, C. J.
The Death of a Borgia
*Thompson , David
The Mirrormaker
TUDOR/STUART ENGLAND & SCOTLAND
Burgess, Anthony
A Dead Man in Deptford
Carr, John Dickson
The Devil
in Velvet
Chisholm,
P. F. (Patricia Finney)
A Famine of Horses
*A Season of Knives
*A Surfeit of Guns
Clynes, Michael (P.C. Doherty)
The White Rose
Murders
The Poisoned
Chalice
The Grail
Murders
*A Brood of
Vipers
*The Gallows
Murders
+ Cook, Judith
The
Slicing Edge of Death
Dukthas, Ann (P.C. Doherty).
A Time for the Death of a King
Finney, Patricia
The Firedrake's Eye
Garrett, George
Entered from the Sun
Kellerman, Faye
The Quality of Mercy
Marston, Edward
The Queen's Head
The Merry Devils
The Trip to Jerusalem
The Nine Giants
The Mad Courtesan
The Silent Woman
The Roaring Boy
Tourney, Leonard
+ The Players' Boy is Dead
+ Low Treason
+ Familiar Spirits
The Bartholomew's Fair
Murders
Old Saxon
Blood
Knaves
Templar
Witness of
Bones
Frobisher's Savage
SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY JAPAN
Rowland, Laura Joh.
Shinju
COLONIAL AMERICA
+ Begiebing, Robert J.
The Strange Death of Mistress Coffin
Meyers, Maan
The Dutchman
Rafferty, S. S.
Cork of the Colonies
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND, FRANCE & AMERICA
Alexander, Bruce
Blind Justice
Murder in Grub Street
Carr, John Dickson
The
Demoniacs
+ De la Torre, Lillian
Dr. Sam: Johnson Detector
Detections of Dr. Sam Johnson
Elizabeth is Missing
Heir of Douglas
The Return of Dr. Sam: Johnson Detector
Doherty, P. C.
+ The
Masked Man
Hall, Robert Lee
Benjamin Franklin Takes the Case
Benjamin
Franklin & A Case of Christmas Murder
Murder at Drury Lane
A Case of
Artful Murder
Murder by the
Waters
+ Heller, Keith
Man's Storm
Man's Illegal Life
*Lake, Deryn
Death in the Dark Walk
Death at the Beggar's Opera
Meyers, Maan
The Knightsbridge Plot
+ O'Toole, Gerald A.J.
Poor Richard's Game
*Potter, Jeremy
The Mystery of the Campden Wonder
+ Stubbs, Jean
The Case of Kitty Ogilvie
+ Zochert, Donald
Murder in the Hellfire Club
EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND & AMERICA;
REGENCY
Burns, Ron
+ The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis
Enslaved
+ Clark, Gail
The Baroness of Bow Street
Dulcie Bligh
DuMaurier, Daphne
Jamaica Inn
+ Jeffreys, J. G. (aka Ben Healey).
A Conspiracy of Poisons
The
Pangersbourne Murders
The
Village of Rogues (aka The Thief Taker)
A Wicked Way to
Die
The Wilful Lady
Captain Bolton's Corpse
Suicide Most Foul
Meyers, Maan
Ross, Kate
Cut to
the Quick
A Broken
Vessel
Whom the Gods Love