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
VICTORIAN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND
Bastable Bernard (Robert Barnard)
Dead
Mr. Mozart
To
Die Like a Gentleman
Brightwell, Emily
The Inspector and Mrs. Jeffries
Mrs. Jeffries Dusts for Clues
The Ghost and
Mrs. Jeffries
Mrs.
Jeffries Takes Stock
Mrs.
Jeffries on the Ball
Mrs. Jeffries Plays the Cook
+ Butler, Gwendoline
A Coffin for Pandora
Sarsen Place
The Vesey Inheritance
Carr, John Dickson
The
Bridge of Newgate
Fire
Burn!
The Hungry Goblin
Most Secret
The Murder of Sir Edmund Godfrey
Scandal at High Chimneys
+ Clarke Anna
The Lady in Black
Crichton Michael
The Great Train Robbery
Crowleigh Ann
Dead as Dead Can Be
Wait for the Dark
+ Dibdin,
Michael
A Rich,
Full Death
Douglas, Carole Nelson
Good Night
Mr. Holmes
Good
Morning
Irene
Irene at
Large
Irene's Last Waltz
+ Fleming, Joan
Screams from a Penny Dreadful
Too Late, Too Late, the Maiden Cried
Frost, Mark
The List of 7
The 6 Messiahs
+ Harrison, Ray
Why Kill Arthur Potter? (aka French Ordinary Murder)
Death of an
Honourable Member
Death
of a Dancing Lady
Deathwatch
Counterfeit of
Murder
A Season for
Death
Harvest of
Murder
Tincture of
Death
Sphere of
Death
Patently
Murder
*Akin to
Murder
*Murder in
Petticoat Square
*Hallmark of Murder
+ Hervey, Evelyn (H.R.F. Keating).
The Governess
Man of Gold
+ Keating, H. R. F.
A
Remarkable Case of Burglary
+ *Knight, Alanna
Enter Second Murderer
Blood Line
Deadly
Beloved
Killing
Cousins
A Quiet
Death
To Kill a
Queen
The Evil That Men
Do
The Missing
Duchess
The Bull Slayers
+ Linscott, Gillian
Murder, I
Presume
+ Lovesey,
Peter
Sergeant Cribb series:
Wobble to Death
The Detective Wore Silk Drawers
Abracadaver
Invitation to a Dynamite Party (aka The Tick of Death)
Mad Hatter's Holiday
A Case of Spirits
Swing, Swing Together
Waxwork
Prince of Wales series:
Bertie and the Seven Bodies
Bertie and the Tin Man
Bertie and the
Crime of Passion
Myers, Amy
Murder in Pug's Parlour
Murder in the Limelight
Murder at Plum's
*Murder at the Masque
*Murder Makes an Entree
*Murder in the Smokehouse
*Murder Under the Kissing Bough
*Murder at the Music Hall
Paige, Robin (Susan W. Albert and William Albert)
Death at Bishop's Keep
Death at Gallows Green
Palmer, William J.
The Detective and Mr. Dickens
The Highwayman and Mr. Dickens
Perry, Anne
Thomas and Charlotte Pitt series:
The Cater Street
Hangman
Callendar
Square
Paragon Walk
Resurrection Row
Rutland Place
Bluegate Fields
Death in the Devil's Acre
Cardington Crescent
Silence in Hanover Close
Bethlehem Road
Highgate Rise
Belgrave Square
Farriers' Lane
The Hyde Park Headsman
Traitors Gate
William Monk and Hester Latterly series:
The Face of a Stranger
A Dangerous
Mourning
Defend and
Betray
A Sudden, Fearful
Death
The Sins of the
Wolf
Cain His Brother
Peters, Elizabeth
Crocodile on the Sandbank
The Curse of the Pharaohs
The Mummy Case
Lion in the Valley
The Deeds of the Disturber
The Last Camel Died at Noon
The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog
The
Hippopotamus Pool (April , 1996)
+ Stubbs, Jean
Dear Laura
Symons, Julian
The Blackheath Poisonings
Sweet Adelaide
The Detling Murders
NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA
Brewer, James
No Bottom
No
Virtue
+ Cain, James M
Past All Dishonor
Carr, Caleb
The Alienist
Carr, John Dickson
Papa
la-Bas
+ DeAndrea, William
The Lunatic Fringe
+ Disney, Doris Miles
At Some Forgotten Door
That Which is Crooked
Honig, Donald
The Sword of General Englund (March 1996)
+ Hunter, Evan
Lizzie
Jackson, Marian J. A.
The Punjat's Ruby
The Cat's Eye
The Sunken Treasure
Marshall, William.
New York Detective
Faces in the Crowd
Monfredo, Miriam Grace.
Seneca Falls Inheritance
North Star Conspiracy
Blackwater Spirits
Oates, Joyce Carol
Mysteries of Winterthurn
+ O'Toole, Gerald A.J.
The Cosgrove Report
+ Paul, Raymond
The Thomas Street Horror
Tragedy at Tiverton
+ Post, Melville Davison
The Methods of Uncle Abner
Silent Witness
Uncle Abner
Master of Mysteries
+ Pronzini, Bill
Quincannon
Satterthwait, Walter
Miss Lizzie
+ Wilde West
+ Sherburne, James
Death's Clenched Fist
Death's Gray Angel
Death's Pale Horse
+ Tone, Teona
Lady on the Line
NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE
Carr, John Dickson
Captain Cut-Throat
Dukthas, Ann
The Prince Lost to Time
Fawcett, Quinn
Napoleon Must Die
Death Wears a Crown
+ McConnor, Vincent
I Am Vidocq
Zencey Eric
Panama
BELLE-EPOQUE FRANCE (ca. 1900)
Grayson, Richard
+ The Murders at Impasse Louvain
+ The Monterant Affair
+ The Death of the Abbe
Didier
+ The
Montmartre Murders
+
Crime Without Passion
+
Death en Voyage
+
Death on the Cards
+
Death Off Stage
Death au
Gratin
BRITISH EMPIRE, EUROPE & AMERICA (1900-1930)
+ Alexander, Lawrence
Speak Softly
The Big Stick (Teddy Roosevelt)
+ Anderson, James
The Affair of the Blood-Stained Egg Cozy
The Affair of
the Mutilated Mink Coat
Baxt, George
The Alfred Hitchcock Murder Case
The Dorothy Parker Murder Case
+ Beck, K. K.
Young Mrs. Cavendish and the Kaiser's Men
Death in a Deck Chair
Murder in a Mummy Case
Peril Under the Palms
Carr, John Dickson
Witch of
the Low Tide
Deadly
Hall
The Ghosts' High
Noon
+ Coles, Manning
Drink to Yesterday
+ Collins, Max Allan
True Detective
Crofts, Freeman Wills
The Cask
Dunn, Carola
Death at Wentwater Court
The Winter Garden Mystery
*Engel, Howard
Murder in Montparnasse
+ Fisher, Graham
The Plot to Kill Wallis Simpson
Goddard, Robert
Past Caring
Debt of Dishonor
Hambly, Barbara
Those Who Hunt the Knight
Travelling with the Dead (vampires)
+ Hawkes, Ellen
The Shadow of the Moth
Hjorstberg, William
Nevermore
+ Keating, H.R.F
The Murder of the Maharajah
King, Laurie R.
The Beekeeper's Apprentice
A Monstrous Regiment of Women
Kingsbury, Kate
Room with a Clue
Do Not Disturb
Service for Two
Eat, Drink, and
Be Buried
Check-Out
Time
Grounds for Murder
Linscott, Gillian
+ Sister Beneath the
Sheet
+ Hanging on
the Wire
+ Stage
Fright
An Easy Day for a
Lady (aka Widow's Peak)
Crown
Witness
Lovesey, Peter
+ The False Inspector
Dew
+ Keystone
+ Paul, Barbara
A Cadenza for Caruso
Prima Donna at Large
A Chorus of Detectives
Pearce, Michael
The Mamur Zapt and the Return of
the Carpet
...and the
Night of the Dog
... and
the Donkey-vous
... and
the Men Behind
... and
the Girl in the Nile
...
and the Spoils of Egypt
The
Camel of Destruction
The
Mingrelian Conspiracy
The
Snake-Catcher's Daughter (Egypt ca. 1908)
Satterthwait, Walter
Escapade
+ Scholefield, Alan
The Sea Cave
+ Smith, Shelley
An Afternoon to Kill
Soos, Troy
Murder at Fenway Park
Murder at Ebbets Field
Murder at
Wrigley Field (Apri 1996) baseball mysteries
+ Stashower, Daniel
The Adventures of the Ectoplasmic Man
Symons, Julian
A Bland Beginning
+ Tone, Teona
Full Cry
THE 1930s
+ Adams, Harold
Murder
The
Missing Moon
The Naked
Liar
Paint the Town
Red
The Barbed Wire
Noose
The Fourth
Widow
The Man Who Missed
the Party
The Man Who Met
the Train
+ Amis, Kingsley
The Riverside Villas Murder
Barnard, Robert
The Skeleton in the Grass
Clarke, Anna
Last Voyage
+ Clarke, T.E.B.
Murder at Buckingham Palace
Dibdin, Michael
The Dying of the Light
+ Collins, Max Allan
True Crime
+ Gerson, Jack
Death's Head Berlin
Death Watch London
Kerr, Philip
March Violets
The Pale Criminal
A German Requiem
+ Powell, Deborah
Bayou City Secrets
Houston Town
Roosevelt, Elliott
The Hyde Park Murder
Murder at Hobcaw Barony etc.
+ Sherwood, John
Shot in the Arm
WORLD WAR II ERA
Baxt, George
The Bette Davis Murder Case
The Greta Garbo Murder Case
The Humphrey Bogart Murder Case
The Mae West Murder Case
The Marlene Dietrich Murder
Case
The Noel Coward
Murder Case
The Talking
Pictures Murder Case
The
Tallulah Bankhead Murder Case
The William Powell and Myrna Loy Murder Case (February 1996)
Note: some of these may be set earlier than the 1940s, but all have to do
with Hollywood and movie stars in some fashion
+ Davis, J. Madison
The Murder of Frau Schutz (murder in a concentration camp)
Ellroy, James
The Black Dahlia
*Grey, Patricia
Junction Cut
Balaclava Row
+ Hart, Carolyn G
Escape from Paris
Kaminsky, Stuart
Bullet for a Star
Murder on the Yellow Brick Road
The Howard Hughes Affair
You Bet Your Life
Never Cross a Vampire
Catch a Falling Clown
Down for the Count
The Fala Factor
He Done Her Wrong
High Midnight
Buried Caesars
Dancing in the Dark
The Devil Met a Lady
The Man Who Shot Lewis Vance
The Melting Clock
Poor Butterfly
Smart Moves
Tomorrow is Another Day
Think Fast
Mr.Peters
(Hollywood)
Note: many of these titles are out of print
Mosley, Walter
Devil in a Blue Dress
+ Shah, Diane K.
As Crime Goes By
Dying Cheek to Cheek (Hollywood)
Taylor, Andrew
An Air That Kills
SHORT STORY ANTHOLOGIES
Ashley, Mike, (ed)
The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunits (1993)
The Mammoth
Book of Historical Detectives (1995)
The Mammoth Book of
Classical Whodunnits (1996)
Hutchings, Janet, (ed)
Once Upon a Crime