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Murder on the Leviathan

Boris Akunin · 248 pages

In 1878 two detectives are pitted against other aboard the steamship Leviathan. Young Russian diplomat, Erast Fandorin, and police commissioner "Papa" Gauche, must find a stolen statue and catch the murdered before the ship reaches it's Calcutta destination.

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A Christmas Homecoming

Anne Perry · 212 pages

Traveling up the Yorkshire coast with her husband and his acting troupe, Caroline, the mother of Charlotte Pitt, anticipates their arrival at the famed fishing village landing sight of Count Dracula in Bram Stoker's tale and develops an awareness about inviting and disallowing evil.

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Except the Dying

Maureen Jennings · 328 pages

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The Luminaries

Eleanor Catton · 834 pages

This novel is a murder mystery set in a remote gold-mining frontier town in 19th-century New Zealand. Arriving in New Zealand in 1866 a weary Englishman, Walter Moody, lands in a gold-mining frontier town on the coast of New Zealand to make his fortune and forever leave behind his family's shame. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men who have met in secret to investi

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The Limehouse Text

Will Thomas · 352 pages

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The Infidel Stain

M.J. Carter · 470 pages

"Blake and Avery return in the stunning sequel to M. J. Carter's lauded fiction debut, The Strangler Vine. London, 1841. Returned from their adventures in India, Jeremiah Blake and William Avery have both had their difficulties adapting to life in Victorian England. Moreover, time and distance have weakened the close bond between them, forged in the jungles of India. Then a shocking series of murd

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Goodnight Sweet Prince

David Dickinson · 320 pages

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Treachery

S.J. Parris · 540 pages

Summer, 1585: As English ships are held captive in Spain, fear mounts of an Invincible Armada, built by King Philip II, and intended to invade English shores. Sir Francis Drake prepares to embark on an expedition by royal commission to cross the Atlantic and seize major Spanish ports, diverting Philip's American treasure supplies to Queen Elizabeth. Giordano Bruno, radical philosopher and spy, acc

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The Titanic Murders

Max Allan Collins · 272 pages

When a passenger is found dead inside a locked cabin aboard the opulent Titanic, it’s a crime worthy of “the Thinking Machine,” the popular fictional investigator who solves mysteries using formidable logic. So who better to crack this real-life case than author Jacques Futrelle, the man behind America’s favorite detective? On board for a romantic getaway with his wife, Futrelle agrees to condu

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The Girl and the Gravedigger

Oliver Pötzsch · 448 pages

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Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol

Gyles Brandreth

In OSCAR WILDE AND THE MURDERS AT READING GAOL, the sixth in Gyles Brandreth's acclaimed Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries series featuring Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle, Reading Gaol's most famous prisoner is pitted against a ruthless and fiendishly clever serial killer. 'Intelligent, amusing and entertaining' Alexander McCall Smith. It is 1897, Dieppe. Oscar Wilde, poet, playwright, novelist, ra

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Edinburgh Twilight

Carole Lawrence · 444 pages

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The Black Country

Alex Grecian · 384 pages

When members of a prominent coal-mining family go missing, Scotland Yard's Murder Squad teammates Inspector Walter Day and Sergeant Nevil Hammersmith, aided by newly arrived forensics pioneer Dr. Bernard Kingsley, investigate dark secrets and realize that the family's village is slowly sinking into underground mines.

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India Black and the Gentleman Thief

Carol K. Carr · 308 pages

"India Black's double life operating a high-class brothel and running high-stakes espionage for Her Majesty's government can take its toll. But there's no rest for the weary-particularly when an international conspiracy comes knocking; India Black is one of Victorian London's most respected madams-not a bloody postmistress. So when Colonel Francis Mayhew forwards a seemingly innocuous shipping bil

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The Heiress of Linn Hagh

Karen Charlton · 325 pages

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The Traitor in the Tunnel

Y.S. Lee · 373 pages

Queen Victoria has a little problem: there's a petty thief at work in Buckingham Palace. Charged with discretion, the Agency puts quickwitted Mary Quinn on the case, where she must pose as a domestic while fending off the attentions of a feckless Prince of Wales. But when the prince witnesses the murder of one of his friends in an opium den, the potential for scandal looms large. And Mary faces an

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A Study in Revenge

Kieran Shields · 372 pages

A sequel to The Truth of All Things finds late-19th century police detective Archie Lean and his half-Native American partner, Perceval Grey, investigating the theft of a recently buried body and the staging of a bizarre occult scene that is linked to a centuries-old magical relic.

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The Iron Horse

Edward Marston · 311 pages

Derby Day at Epsom Downs. A multitude of people crowd to watch the races: dukes and dustmen, bishops and beggars, privileged ladies and prostitutes - the gamut of Victorian society and a hotbed for crime and crooks of all kinds. With the nation a-flutter in the run up to this national event, a disembodied head is discovered on a passenger train at Crewe; the first in a murky course of events that

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The Strings of Murder

Oscar de Muriel · 416 pages

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Star of the East

Tasha Alexander

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Dandy Detects

M. Louisa Locke

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The Princess and the Pirates

John Maddox Roberts · 208 pages

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Death at Dartmoor

Robin Paige · 336 pages

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Wobble to Death

Peter Lovesey · 190 pages

Los Angeles Times In 1879, race walking competitions, known as "wobbles," were all the rage. The death of a contender, followed by a second murder, introduces Sergeant Cribb, who goes on to investigate sports-related deaths in a series of eight books. Peter Lovesey is the author of twenty-five highly praised mystery novels and has been awarded the Crime Writers' Association Gold, Silver, and Diamo

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