Historical Mystery
epub |eng | 2015-06-03 | Author:Petr Kopl

What even Holmes didn’t know At first glance, it appears that Dr Watson is rather a wag and that he introduced novel references to other works by writers of that ...
( Category: Historical Mystery February 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-05 | Author:Anne Perry

* * * Vespasia stood in the corner of the long gallery. It was a good place to be alone, while appearing to be engaged in looking at the portraits, ...
( Category: Historical Mystery February 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-06 | Author:Michelle Birkby

CHAPTER 12 The Impossibility of Miss Adler Many people have asked me what exactly the relationship was between Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler, to which I always replied that it ...
( Category: Amateur Sleuths February 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-03 | Author:Joab Stieglitz [Stieglitz, Joab]

◆ Harry Lamb awoke with a smile to the smell of bacon. He rose from the pile of pillows and located the pantaloons. Then he followed the smell down the ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense February 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-29 | Author:Nicola Cassidy [Cassidy, Nicola]

Chapter Twenty HENRY It wasn’t something he expected. The interest. The letters. The gifts. The surrounding him at soirees and house parties. The mothers were the worst. They pressed into ...
( Category: Historical Mystery February 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-14 | Author:Sarah Hawkswood [Hawkswood, Sarah]

The mill that Judhael de Nouailles had built from the abandoned construction planned by Evesham Abbey was well made and neatly kept. Bradecote and Catchpoll did not enter, but stopped ...
( Category: Historical Mystery February 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 1986-01-01 | Author:Paul Doherty [Doherty, Paul]

Fourteen In the following weeks Vlad, Mihail and I prepared for the imminent invasion. Vlad introduced himself to the Wallachian exiles, who rapturously received him as his father’s heir and ...
( Category: Crime February 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-22 | Author:Margaret Frazer [Frazer, Margaret]

Chapter Three The next day was as fair as the days before had been, mild with September warmth and quiet in its familiar pattern of prayers at dawn, then breakfast ...
( Category: Historical Mystery February 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-11 | Author:Carol Hedges [Hedges, Carol]

**** The elderly couple running the coffee stall at Westminster Bridge have been doing a brisk trade in hot drinks and bread-and-butter since crack of dawn. They’ve erected a little ...
( Category: Historical Mystery February 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-08 | Author:Carolyn L Dean [Dean, Carolyn L]

** As she walked out toward the main room with all the film sets, she saw a furtive motion out of the corner of her eye in the darkened hallway. ...
( Category: Historical Mystery February 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Fiona Buckley [Buckley, Fiona]

THIRTEEN Word From Home Next day, the gale continued to blow until nightfall, and there was heavy rain, but after that, things improved and the sun came out again. It ...
( Category: Espionage February 16,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Laura Joh Rowland

CHAPTER 19 “It’s my night off,” Barrett says. “I came to see you.” “You don’t take nights off.” I know he usually works late. Barrett looks past me, into the ...
( Category: Amateur Sleuths February 16,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Karen Lee Street [Street, Karen Lee]

27 MONDAY, 18 MARCH 1844 We did not make the journey to Bartram’s estate the next morning, for a smartly dressed boy arrived at the door with a letter. “From ...
( Category: Historical February 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-14 | Author:Abir Mukherjee [Mukherjee, Abir]

TWENTY-NINE The light from a candle flame reflected off black water. The room was freezing. It might have been the one I’d passed through on my way out of the ...
( Category: Murder February 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-11 | Author:Patricia Finney [Finney, Patricia]

Silence. Mrs Ashley drank from her goblet slowly, her fingers bloodless. “It certainly is a terrible thing,” “The whores think so.” “And do you think Mr Craddock may have seen ...
( Category: Historical Mystery February 16,2020 )