Historical mysteries

St. Paul, Minnesota. October 1, 1917. High above the city, a renowned local financier named Artemis Dodge lies facedown on the floor of his armored...

In Hide My Eyes, private detective Albert Campion finds himself hunting down a serial killer in London''s theatreland. A spate of murders leaves h...

'Abir Mukherjee is doing something uniquely different in the crime genre. His evocation of 1920s India under British occupation is breathtaking' P...

The best of mystery writers The New Yorker First, there is a skeleton in a dinner jacket. Then a corpse in a golden aeroplane. After another body...

If I had to vote for the single best detective story, this would be it. A.S. Byatt Celebrated amateur detective Albert Campion awakes in hospita...

World War II is limping to a close and private detective Albert Campion has just returned from years abroad on a secret mission. Relaxing in his ba...

When song-and-dance star Jimmy Sutane falls victim to a string of malicious practical jokes, there''s only one man who can get to the bottom of the...

Private detective Albert Campion is summoned to the village of Kepesake to investigate a particularly distasteful death. The body turns out to be t...

The Tiger in the Smoke is a phenomenal novel - J. K. Rowling A fog is creeping through the weary streets of London - so too are whispers that th...

Timothy Kinnit needs the help of private detective Albert Campion. Kinnit is rich, handsome and successful, but his past is a mystery to him. When ...

Finding himself the victim of a botched kidnapping attempt, Val Gyrth suspects that he might be in a spot of trouble. Unexpected news to him - but ...

From the winner of the Richard and Judy Search for a Bestseller competition comes another tantalising Golden Age wartime mystery.**DON'T MISS THE L...

The arrival of a band of Spanish mercenaries brings new danger for Margaret Beaufort and the House of Lancaster in this richly-imagined medieval my...

[Readers] are bound to be caught up in the adventures of Bess Crawford . . . While her sensibility is as crisp as her narrative voice, Bess is a c...