And to think they do it without cell phones. These stories highlight the difficulties of investigation and the perils of fighting injustice in times of yore.
Historical Mysteries and Westerns
April 11 2013
An excerpt of A Murder at Rosamund’s Gate, a traditional historical mystery and the first book...
March 24 2013
An excerpt of Dead Run by Dan Schultz, the narrative non-fiction story of one of the largest manhunts...
March 16 2013
The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century by Joel...
February 10 2013
The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War by Daniel Stashower is a...
February 2 2013
An excerpt of The Family Way by Rhys Bowen, volume 12 of the Molly Murphy mystery series set in New...
January 28 2013
An excerpt of The Afrika Reich by Guy Saville, an alternate history reimagining of the years after...
January 27 2013
The Marlowe Papers is a historical novel told in poems about the life and mysterious “death”...
January 19 2013
An excerpt of The Warlord of the Air, the first book in the alt-historical adventure series, Nomad...
January 6 2013
The Midwife’s Tale by Sam Thomas is a historical mystery set in 17th century England (available...
January 3 2013
The Bughouse Affair by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini is the first book in a new historical mystery...
November 23 2012
An excerpt of Target Lancer by Max Allan Collins, the 14th book in the historical private eye Nathan...
October 14 2012
An excerpt of Death in the Floating City, the seventh historical mystery in the Lady Emily series...
October 5 2012
An excerpt of Dracula Cha Cha Cha, the third book in the Anno Dracula historical thriller series by...
September 25 2012
An exclusive excerpt from The Mongoliad: Book Two by Neal Stephenson, Erik Bear, Greg Bear, Joseph...
August 15 2012
An excerpt of The Lincoln Letter, a Peter Fallon thriller by William Martin featuring Fallon and his...
July 6 2012
A Trace of Smoke by Rebecca Cantrell is the first in the Hannah Vogel historical mystery series, set...
June 14 2012
An excerpt of A Duty to the Dead, the first in the Bess Crawford historical mystery series by Charles...
June 7 2012
An excerpt of Dead Man’s Tunnel, the third in the Hook Runyon historical mystery series by Sheldon...
May 26 2012
An excerpt of The Seven Wonders, a historical mystery by Steven Saylor (available June 5, 2012).
The...
May 3 2012
An excerpt of Lady, Go Die!, the lost Mike Hammer novel, a private detective thriller by Mickey Spillane...
April 19 2012
An excerpt from The Sea Witch by Stephen Coonts, a collection of three military thrillers: two...
April 4 2012
An excerpt from The Stolen Bride by Tony Hays, a Malgwyn ap Cuneglas medieval Arthurian mystery (available...
March 3 2012
An excerpt from The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye (available March 15, 2012).
1845. New York...
February 12 2012
For Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward, writing under the name Sax Rohmer, this serialized adventure would...
January 7 2012
Anna Pigeon’s first case... In 1995 and 35 years old, fresh off the bus from New York City and nursing...
November 27 2011
In Joanna Challis’ latest Daphne du Maurier mystery, young Daphne struggles to write her first novel...and...
November 4 2011
It’s the end of winter 1865 when Charles Lenox agrees to investigate the death of Phil Jigg, a beloved...
October 27 2011
1873 is a perilous time in the relationship between France and England. When a string of English...
October 24 2011
An old friend summons dashing linguistics professor Thomas Lourds to Jerusalem to examine an ancient...
October 22 2011
Athens, 460 B.C. Life’s tough for Nicolaos, the only investigating agent in ancient Athens. ...
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