Historical Mystery
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-03-13 | Author:Laura Joh Rowland [Rowland, Laura Joh]

24 THE STEAM PACKET LABORED ACROSS THE ENGLISH CHANNEL, the paddle wheels churning noisily, funnels belching smoke, and sails billowing. I stood on the deck, my eyes dazzled by the ...
( Category: Historical March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2008-01-01 | Author:Charles Todd [Todd, Charles]

15 Rutledge found Padgett in the police station completing his report on the housebreaking. Even before he reached the office, he could hear the ragged tap of typewriter keys and ...
( Category: Police Procedurals March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-01-01 | Author:Jane Johnson [Johnson, Jane]

I knowe not why the price they have putte on mee is so hie. I knowe that I am not worthie of such costlie sum, sir. Of Mayor & Ann ...
( Category: Sword & Sorcery March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-02-28 | Author:Philip Kerr [Kerr, Philip]

23 GERMANY, 1954 I sat up and blinked hard in the near darkness of cell number seven, wondering how long I’d been asleep. The shade of Hitler was gone, at ...
( Category: Murder March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | | Author:Laurie R. King [King, Laurie R.]

THIRTEEN …The reader is tripping over uncertain ground, not knowing what is to be accepted and what rejected. —A Book of Dartmoor « ^ » When I took my leave ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | | Author:Laurie R. King [King, Laurie R.]

THIRTEEN ν nu « ^ » The rain started during the night, in its typical understated London fashion. The grumble of distant thunder grew imperceptibly from the dying roar of ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | | Author:Laurie R. King [King, Laurie R.]

NINE THE GAME, AFOOT We must disentangle, therefore, what now is obscure. « ^ » Wake, Russell,” said a voice in my ear. “The game’s afoot!” The room was dark ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-15 | Author:Tessa Harris [Harris, Tessa]

Trapped in a prison of her own making, Lady Lydia Farrell wrote the fifth and final draft of a letter from the confinement of her darkened bedchamber. My Beloved Thomas, ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-08 | Author:Ruth Downie [Downie, Ruth]

Chapter 41 “I am only saying what you are both thinking,” declared Sabina, pushing away the bowl of dates whose shape and color had reminded her that this place might ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-20 | Author:Daniel Kalla [Kalla, Daniel]

CHAPTER 26 “Cut here, please, Dr. Adler,” Reuben instructed, tugging on the two ends of the stitch that held the thyroid gland together. As Franz snipped the catgut, he considered ...
( Category: Jewish March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-13 | Author:William Seil [Seil, William]

Chapter Fifteen THE EARLY MORNING OF SATURDAY 13 APRIL 1912 Those of you who have read my work know that I am a man of few complaints. Indeed, I considered ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1998-01-02 | Author:Sharon Kay Penman [Penman, Sharon Kay]

William Marshal’s tent was sparsely furnished. He was a soldier first, a courtier second, and had only scorn for those who went off to war with all the comforts of ...
( Category: Ghosts March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-01-31 | Author:Kate Sedley [Kate Sedley]

TWELVE I caught my breath. ‘You saw her? You’re sure of that?’ ‘I’m not absolutely certain, no. But as sure as I can be. As I said, she was walking ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-12-03 | Author:Alanna Knight [Knight, Alanna]

He slept badly that night, troubled by nightmares, and left the house early next morning to call on Constable Muir, to get his farcical daily visit behind him. Not that ...
( Category: Historical British & Irish Literature March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-28 | Author:Laura Joh Rowland [Rowland, Laura Joh]

Catherine Meadows. Age 19, streetwalker. Height 4 feet 11 inches. Weight 100 lbs. 2 January 1850, initial contact, Old Montague Street. 3 February 1850, 1st examination; exposed. 7 April 1850, ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )