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

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