Victorian Crime Mystery

In the winter of 1835, young Charles Dickens is a journalist on the rise at the Evening Chronicle. Invited to dinner at the estate of the newspaper's co-editor, Charles is smitten with his boss' daughter, vivacious 19-year-old Kate Hogarth. They are having the best of times when a scream shatters the pleasant evening. Charles, Kate, and her father rush to the neighbors' home, where Miss Christiana Lugoson lies unconscious on the floor. By morning, the poor young woman will be dead.

London, 1886. A husband dies in a rented room in Pimlico. Chloroform is found in his stomach. Adelaide Bartlett was accused of murdering her husband, Thomas Edwin Bartlett, in one of the most perplexing poison cases of the Victorian era. The medical evidence revealed a lethal quantity of chloroform — yet no clear explanation of how it had been administered. At the Old Bailey, expert witnesses clashed. The marriage was dissected. A minister’s involvement deepened suspicion. But suspicion is not proof. Acquitted in April 1886, Adelaide Bartlett walked free. The question of how chloroform ...

What if everything you know about Jack the Ripper is wrong? Since 1888, hundreds of suspects have been proposed for the Jack the Ripper murders–from Polish barbers to Freemason conspiracies. But what if investigators have been asking the wrong question? Instead of asking ‘Who was Jack the Ripper?’, Richard Walker asked ‘How were these murders actually committed?’ What he discovered is truly shocking.

Bubble, bubble, toil, and murder... When a woman is found dead near her village in Norfolk, the verdict is suicide. Not everyone agrees. Detective James Simpson is ordered to investigate and he brings Agatha Aston, a young woman high of intellect and low in patience, Betty Stevens and a lovelorn hound called Talleyrand, with him. They stumble across a tale of murder that stretches back two centuries. Part occult story, part murder mystery - this creepy tale is steeped in witchcraft and strange rural festivals where everything is not as it seems. The second Agatha Aston murder mystery is ...

"Brilliant! Six really well written SH tales that capture the atmosphere of the era to perfection. I can't praise this enough." - Goodreads (paperback edition) SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE DEADLY SECRETS is a Victorian/Edwardian detective short fiction collection featuring Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Mycroft Holmes, as well as several other characters of the Holmesian universe created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The following six stories are included in this volume: SECRET CHILD Miss Clara Anderson, a young Canadian heiress visiting England, seeks out Sherlock Holmes, hoping he can save the ...

Step back into the gaslit alleys of Victorian London, where a shadow known only as Jack the Ripper unleashed a reign of terror that haunts us to this day. In the autumn of 1888, the impoverished district of Whitechapel became the hunting ground for a phantom. A series of brutal, ritualistic murders of destitute women exposed the dark underbelly of the world's wealthiest empire and launched one of the most intense and frustrating manhunts in history. The killer was never caught, leaving behind a terrifying legend and a perfect, unsolved mystery. This meticulously researched book cuts through...

Edinburgh, 1885. Botanical illustrator Mildred Crane has built her life on observation. The precise curve of a petal. The subtle shift of colour at its edge. The quiet truth that reveals itself only to those patient enough to look closely. Plants, she has always believed, are far more honest than people. So when she accepts a private commission at Blackwood House—a secluded estate perched above the Firth of Forth—she expects solitude, rare orchids, and the comforting discipline of her craft. Instead, she finds a household steeped in tension. A reclusive lord guarding a fading legacy. A ...

London, April 1891. When the severed torso of a woman washes up on the bank of the river Thames, London believes a serial killer from the past has struck again. Crime photographer and investigator Sarah Bain Barrett is on the scene with her friends Mick O’Reilly and Lord Hugh Staunton. This is their chance to solve a cold case and deliver a monster to justice, with help from Sarah’s husband Detective Sergeant Thomas Barrett; her sister Sally Albert, an intrepid newspaper reporter; and Hugh’s psychologist, Dr. Joshua Lewes, a pioneer in the new science of criminal profiling.

Christmas at a snowed in country house. You know what happens next… Not necessarily. Agatha Aston is invited to spend the weekend before Christmas with some old friends. Accompanied by her Machiavellian Basset hound, Talleyrand, Agatha encounters murder, ghosts and romance at a country house where nothing is as it seems. While Agatha has her hands full solving a murder, Talleyrand has his own problems in the shape of Bismarck, the hosts’ unfriendly German Shepherd. Expect fireworks. Containing a short ghost story within a story, The Christmas Murder Mystery is a twisty box of delights, ...

Lord Charles Danvers, still mourning his lost love Charlotte, hopes to escape from his ghosts at the gala coming-of-age celebrations for the son of his oldest friend. All is jubilation and proper respectability until the evening is shattered by a brutal murder. The police are quick to point to a quarrelsome farmer, but Danvers has his doubts. Is the real culprit much closer to home? And does Danvers owe the greater loyalty to an old friend or to the truth? Then, Danver is even more unsettled by the entrance of the alluring Lady Antonia Hoover. The first in the Lord Danvers Investigates ...

Against the vividly drawn backdrop of Victorian London, amateur sleuth Charles Lenox must unlock a mystery concealed in the architecture of the city itself, in this new novel from acclaimed author Charles Finch. It's 1879, and Lenox is convalescing from the violent events of his last...

Eleven new investigations. Eleven moral reckonings. A cartographer dies at his desk, pen in hand, drawing a map of no recognisable place. A celebrated tenor contrives to die on stage at the Royal Opera House. Mysterious photographs appear overnight in a locked darkroom. Chalk marks on Whitechapel walls conceal a message no one was meant to read. A mathematician vanishes from his rooms at Cambridge, leaving his shoes, his coat, and an unfinished proof. From the gaslit streets of London to the flat silence of the Fens, from a cathedral tower at midnight to the tunnels beneath Kennington, Dr. ...

Victorian London 1874… In public halls and darkened parlours, the fever for spiritualism is at its height… A stranger in the great Metropolis, Josiah Abbs must solve his first case at Scotland Yard. A grieving architect has been murdered. Seemingly, he disturbed an intruder. Only Inspector Abbs believes the truth is darker and more complicated. London is seeping over its green borders like a blot of dark ink… Some thrive here among the teeming, heart of Empire. Others are silently sinking, caught in a mystery of lies and loss. When two cases tangle, Abbs will risk everything to ...

When Lord Wrexford discovers the body of a gifted inventor in a dark London alley, he promptly alerts the watchman and lets the authorities handle the matter. But Wrexford soon finds himself drawn into the murder investigation when the inventor's widow begs for his assistance, claiming the crime was not a random robbery. It seems her husband's designs for a revolutionary steam-powered engine went missing the night of his death. The plans could be worth a fortune and very dangerous in the wrong hands.

London, November 1890. Crime-scene photographer Sarah Bain Barrett faces a perfect storm of events. She and her husband Detective Sergeant Barrett are riding on a train that crashes. While rescuing other passengers, they find a woman who's been strangled to death.

An intriguing Victorian mystery… The first case for Inspector Abbs. A wealthy spinster has been poisoned in the Devonshire town of Seaborough. Inspector Abbs and Sergeant Reeve are sent to investigate. With no apparent motive, they must uncover the secrets of the close-knit community. Untangling the past may provide the answer… but not before a second body is found. Their visit to Seaborough will change everything for the two detectives. Discovering the truth may even prove deadly…

When Scotland Yard makes a collar in the aftermath of a ghastly double murder in the moneyed environs of London’s West End, charging a Venetian-born masque-maker with the crimes, Sherlock Holmes, newly arrived back in London after a working visit to the United States, is quick to declare the arrest to be in error, his suspicions soon coming to focus upon a centuries-old secret society which operates in the shadows, violence with a blade its hallmark. Thus swept up in events that suggest much and yet provide scant clues for even the world’s foremost consulting detective to find, Sherlock...

“Watson, there is not a moment to lose. If you care to join the chase, pack your bag at once!” Likewise, enthusiasts of the greatest detective will not want to miss this opportunity to join Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson in a whirlwind of exciting new adventures… A daring thief penetrates the defenses of the Tower of London in search of a secret treasure. A profligate young actor is accused of murdering his exemplary sibling. From the safe of a prominent London banker, a priceless heirloom is stolen. Upon a high cliff, a ghostly assassin commits an impossible murder. A kingpin of ...

Inspector Lestrade considers a young man's death merely accidental but his rival Tobias Gregson is not completely convinced and solicits the opinion of Sherlock Holmes. Holmes concludes that Lestrade is mistaken but even the great detective is unaware of how deep the waters run in the affair. As he and Watson tug at the thread, they uncover a plot of murder and deception intended to bring down an empire. PRAISE FROM GOODREADS.COM: "A great and exciting Sherlock Holmes story, that I really enjoyed reading. The story and mystery, keeps you guessing and flipping through the pages, to see how ...

Step away from the modern world with The Continuing Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes: Omnibus Five, by C. Thorne, a collection of four short stories, a novella, and a bonus vignette, which is found nowhere else but in this volume! Come with us in The Mystery of Wyvern Hall, as a fourteen-year-old girl with a taste for the legendary and fanciful vanishes without a trace from her home in a Medieval manor in the Kentish countryside…. Follow along in The Case of the Kaiser’s Assassin, as Holmes seeks to prevent war, when a diabolically bold assassin stalks the German Emperor on a trip to ...