Historical Mystery
epub |eng | 2019-11-27 | Author:Ann Parker [Parker, Ann]

Chapter Twenty-Two December 24 After leaving Mrs. Stannert, de Bruijn ventured out on the veranda, clutching his hat against the fierce breeze. The wide planks were empty. Staying close to ...
( Category: Amateur Sleuths March 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-05 | Author:Kate Ellis [Ellis, Kate]

From the notebook of Dr Christopher Cruckshank 3 August 1882 All the district is shocked by the dark events I shall now describe. Mrs Fitzterran being away in Bath, I ...
( Category: Police Procedurals March 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-15 | Author:Laurinda Wallace [Wallace, Laurinda]

Nora’s weekly housecleaner, Rose, a thickset brown-haired woman of uncertain age, but one who showed up without fail each Thursday, was pushing a rag mop over the kitchen floor, singing ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-20 | Author:Lorraine Evanoff [Evanoff, Lorraine]

T W E N T Y January 5, 2002 Her eyes opened reluctantly to a sliver of sunrise that had trickled through the almost impenetrable shutters. In a state of ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-02 | Author:Christopher Redmond

Sir John Hare, born John Fairs (1844–1921), is mentioned in “A Scandal in Bohemia”, as Watson observes that Holmes’s disguise and demeanour as an elderly nonconformist clergyman “were such as ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-27 | Author:Daniel D Victor

Chapter Ten An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect. -Mark Twain Pudd’nhead Wilson In spite ...
( Category: Historical March 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-12 | Author:Gayle Lange Puhl

The Case of Whittlestick Woods From the depths of his seat in the first-class railway carriage, Sherlock Holmes tossed me a crumpled telegram. Its message flamed from the page. “Two ...
( Category: Historical Mystery February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-05 | Author:Joseph W. Svec III

Chapter 11 Another Most Unusual Journey (And a very quick one at that) The top speed of the Nautilus, as described by Jules Verne in his novel, was 50 knots ...
( Category: Historical Mystery February 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-16 | Author:Warwick Downing

‘Take us through your activities in connection with this matter on twenty-eight September, if you will, Mr Longstreet,’ Jeremy said. The detective had picked up Lady Russell at her home ...
( Category: Historical Mystery February 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-21 | Author:Joseph W. Svec III

Chapter 12 One More Very Strange Side Trip (And this time some talking flowers) Sherlock spun around quickly to see and verified that the machine was indeed gone. Where its ...
( Category: Historical February 24,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:R. Austin Freeman

* * * XIII. — THE CORONER’S QUEST ~ THE PROCEEDINGS OF THAT FINE old institution, the coroner’s court, are apt to have their dignity impaired by the somewhat unjudicial ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives February 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-17 | Author:David Marcum

The Adventure of the Old Boys’ Club by Shane Simmons “The Diogenes Club. Do you know it?” Word had come to me, as it often did, from one mouth on ...
( Category: Historical February 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-12 | Author:J. Sydney Jones

“Hey, you got to bend sometimes so you don’t break. My cousin Walt’s always saying that.” “Who was going to make you break?” “Yeah, well, this Rollo guy had some ...
( Category: International Mystery & Crime February 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-12-09 | Author:Josh Lanyon [Lanyon, Josh]

Chapter Twenty Four BHANAVAR AND THE MUMMY I sat up, suddenly wide awake. Maxwell stood at my bedside. He looked…harrowed. I croaked, “What? What are you saying?” We were not ...
( Category: Mystery February 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jess Montgomery [Montgomery, Jess]

CHAPTER 20 LILY Sunday, September 26—10:00 a.m. Sunday morning, Lily parks her automobile down the hill and walks up to the Stanehart Hollow Friends Meeting House. She’s dressed in her ...
( Category: Historical February 20,2020 )