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Cyrus Barker is undoubtedly England's premiere private enquiry agent. With the help of his assistant, Thomas Llewelyn, he's developed an enviable reputation for discreetly solving some of the toughest, most consequential cases in recent history. But one evening in 1888, Robert Anderson, the head of Scotland Yard's Criminal Investigation Department (CID), appears at Barker's office with an offer.

Despatched on a secret mission, the company of a 28-gun frigate must face the hazards of conspiracy, treason, and piracy. And recently appointed third lieutentant Richard Bolitho must learn to accept his new responsibilities as a King's officer.

It's 1194, and Sir Faucon de Ramis, the shire's newly appointed keeper of the pleas, must do his duty and make an official declaration of the cause of a miller's death. Saddled with a clerk who names Faucon his "penance", the shire's first crowner must thread the tangled relationships between the sheriff, the village of Priors Holston, and the priory that once ruled it. As a simple task takes a turn to the political, what seems obvious isn't, and what appears safe turns out to be more dangerous than he could imagine.

February 1381. London lies frozen in the grip of one of the bitterest winters on record. The ever-rising taxes demanded by the Regent, John of Gaunt, are causing increasing resentment among the city's poor. When the seething unrest boils over into a bloody massacre at a splendid Southwark tavern, in which nine people, including Gaunt's tax collectors, their military escort and the prostitutes entertaining them, are brutally murdered, the furious Regent orders Brother Athelstan to get to the bottom of the matter.

Stacie - Lady Eustacia Cavanaugh - is adamant marriage is not for her. Wealthy and well-born, she needs for nothing, and with marriage off the table, to give her life purpose, she embarks on a plan to further the careers of emerging local musicians by introducing them to the ton via a series of musical evenings. Yet despite her noble status, Stacie requires a musical lure to tempt the haut ton to her events, and only one musician commands sufficient cachet - the reclusive and notoriously reluctant Marquess of Albury.

London, 1851. With the opening of the Great Exhibition at hand, interest in mounting in the engineering triumphs of the railways, but not everyone feels like celebrating. In an audacious attack, the London to Birmingham mail train is robbed and derailed, causing many casualties. Planned with military precision, this crime proves a challenge to Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck who fights to untangle a web of murder, blackmail and destruction.

Abridged edition. C. J. Sansom's bestselling adventures of Matthew Shardlake continue in the fourth title of the series, the haunting Revelation. Spring, 1543. King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr, whom he wants for his sixth wife. But this time the object of his affections is resisting...

Kyiv, 1919. The Soviets control the city, but White armies menace them from the West. No man trusts his neighbour and any spark of resistance may ignite into open rebellion. When Samson Kolechko's father is murdered, his last act is to save his son from a falling Cossack sabre. Deprived of his right ear instead of his head, Samson is left an orphan, with only his father's collection of abacuses for company. Until, that is, his flat is requisitioned by two Red Army soldiers, whose secret plans Samson is somehow able to overhear with uncanny clarity.

In the summer of 1923, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple makes what should be an uneventful research trip to the Museum of Natural History quite an eventful day - with her nephew, Derek, and her soon-to-be stepdaughter, Belinda, in tow. But as she interviews the various curators for her article on the museums of London, she soon discovers that the Museum of Natural History is a hothouse of professional rivalry and jealousy.

When the dowager receives an unexpected invitation from Queen Victoria herself to attend a grand concert at the Royal Albert Hall, she suspects there’s more at stake than music. A foreign dignitary’s sudden death soon confirms it. Confined to bed after a health scare, a very pregnant Tabitha...

High-ranking members of England’s socialist movement suspect that Karl Marx’s daughter “Tussy” may be in danger, but can give Holmes no reason as to what kind of danger, or why. Weeks later, Tussy is found dead, an apparent suicide. But why would she bother to change her clothes after drinking cyanide? Why would she leave on her muddy shoes? What happened to the glass and the envelope by her side? Past sins, scandalous relations and smouldering vengeance will all be revealed as Sherlock Holmes unravels the mystery of the Revolutionary’s Daughter!

A twelve-year land war. Two dead lovers. And a map that's been lying longer than anyone's been fighting. California, 1879. When surveyor Silas Thorne is commissioned to draw the definitive boundary between two feuding ranching families in the San Joaquin Valley, the assignment looks straight forward: one meridian line, eight hundred acres of disputed ground, and a territorial judge who wants the matter settled. Then two young lovers from the rival families turn up dead on the disputed strip, and nothing about the valley is what the records claim. A crime measured in inches.

Ottobre 1933. L'LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin proveniente dalla Germania viaggia in direzione di Rio de Janeiro. Se non fosse per un misterioso omicidio che avviene nel cuore della notte. A bordo c'è un funzionario della Kriminalpolizei berlinese, Bruno Brückner, membro del partito nazista in viaggio per una vacanza, che prende in mano le indagini.

"The magistrate of Poo-yang belongs in the select group of fictional detectives headed by the renowned Sherlock Holmes." —Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times "The China of old, in Mr. van Gulik's skilled hands, comes vividly alive again." —Allen J. Hubin, The New York Times Book Review...

Ein Prozess wie ein Todesurteil – und nur ein einziger Mann könnte die Wahrheit retten. Erleben Sie einen historischen Krimi voller Spannung, düsterer Atmosphäre und gnadenloser Machtspiele im Dreißigjährigen Krieg. Prag im Jahr 1633: General Holk leitet ein Tribunal gegen Offiziere, die in der blutigen Schlacht von Lützen ihre Pflicht vernachlässigt haben sollen. Doch unter den Angeklagten gibt es Zweifel an der Schuld – und nur ein einziger Zeuge könnte sie entlasten: Leutnant Haunsberger.

SHERLOCK HOLMES WORKS BESIDE THE GREAT LADY DETECTIVES OF THE VICTORIAN ERA! There was a rich plethora of female sleuths in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, solving mysteries throughout the world at the same time as Sherlock Holmes. Imagine if these sleuths worked together to fight crime and stop master criminals! See Sherlock Holmes partner with Loveday Brooke, Judith Lee, Kitty Winters, Lois Cayley, Ruth the Betrayer and many, many more in FOURTEEN ALL-NEW ADVENTURES!! Edited and with an introduction by Derrick Belanger, BSI.

In England in the late 1920s, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, on a convalescent trip to the countryside, goes to visit three old school friends in the area. Daisy and her husband Alec - Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher, of Scotland Yard - go for a Sunday lunch with Daisy’s friends, where one of the women mentions a wine cellar below their house, which remains curiously locked, no key to be found. Alec offers to pick the lock, but when he opens the door, what greets them is not a cache of wine but the stench of a long-dead body.

In the sequel to the Nebula finalist The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter, Mary Jekyll and the rest of the daughters of mad scientists from literature embark on a madcap adventure across Europe to rescue another monstrous girl and stop the Alchemical Society’s nefarious plans once...

*Winner of the CWA Historical Dagger 2023* 'A great insight into Renaissance Florence. What I love about these books is the seamless weaving of factual history with a great story' – Abir Mukherjee Florence. Spring, 1537. When Cesare Aldo investigates a report of intruders at a convent in the...

When a man’s naked corpse is found strapped to a waterwheel, newly appointed Inspector Haze is called upon to investigate the crime. With the help of American surgeon Captain Redmond, he delves into the life of Frank Darrow, a man who inspired such hatred, his mere death wasn’t enough to satisfy his killer. Finding few clues and no obvious motive for the murder, Redmond and Haze must peel away the layers of Frank Darrow’s relationships to get to the shocking truth, while also coming to terms with unexpected developments in their own lives.