Historical crime and mysteries
Felony & Mayhem The Plague Road
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£22.10
Felony & Mayhem The Plague Road
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£12.34
Felony & Mayhem The Past Master
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£15.26
Felony & Mayhem The Butcher of Berner Street
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£18.99
Felony & Mayhem The Butcher of Berner Street
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£12.34
Felony & Mayhem Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Weird Sisters
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£18.04
Felony & Mayhem Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Weird Sisters
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£12.34
Felony & Mayhem Fire
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£12.34
Felony & Mayhem I Met Murder
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£11.99
Morgan James Publishing llc Newark Minutemen: A True 1930s Legend About One
Book Synopsis#1 bestseller and soon to be motion picture, Newark Minutemen has bridged generations. The epic based-on-true story of forbidden love and unholy heroism is set against the backdrop of an America ripped apart by the Great Depression and on the brink of war.Newark, NJ, 1938. Millions are out of work and robbed of dignity. A shadow Hitler-Nazi party called the German-American Bund that is led by an American Fuhrer threatens to swallow democracy. In this dangerous time of star-spangled fascism, a romance forms between the Jewish boxer, Yael and the daughter of the enemy, Krista. But 1930s America pulls them apart as Krista’s people want Yael’s dead. Then Yael is recruited by the mob to go undercover for the FBI against her people and bring down the German-American Bund. Author Leslie K. Barry captures an authentic and brave portrait of a lost America searching for identity, preserving legacy and saving its soul. It is a heartbreaking novel that crosses generations as it honors the fragility of freedom.Trade Review“A roller coaster ride of revenge and avenge. Inglorious Bastards, Peaky Blinders and Titanic all rolled into one.”-Kevin Joseph, Producer, Fulwell 73 Productions“An almost unbelievable true tale of the 1930s. Imagining Nazi swastikas draped across George Washington’s portrait feels like a sinister made-for-movie dystopian story.”-Susan Turley, Documentary Film Producer and Executive Producer, XRM Media“Newark Minutemen is a fascinating account about America’s lost history. The unholy alliance of the mob and FBI prevented the story from being printed until now. An untold family story that was meant to be told.”-Steve Katz, Senior Vice President, CBS Corp.“The unlikely love affair in Newark Minutemen carries the epic conflict of Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story and the Titanic’s Jack and Rose.”-Leo Pearlman, Managing Partner and Producer, Fulwell 73“Newark Minutemen tells the inspiring story of how an unlikely group of Jewish boxers helped wake up Depression-era Americans to Nazis on our doorstep. It is the book for anyone interested in understanding how complacency can be our worst enemy and how the Newark Minutemen were a heroic example of how to fight back.”-Ethan Tuttle, Congressional intern and University of Maryland student“Leslie K. Barry’s narrative brings to life in vivid detail a lost era of heroes who give voice to victims even as authorities turn a blind eye.”-Stacy Friedman, Rabbi, Congregation Rodef Sholom“A rare perspective of 1930s American defending their own soil.”-Lt. David Hall, United States Navy“Newark Minutemen is a timeless tale of the vigilance, intelligence and surveillance necessary to thwart vulnerabilities against our country.”-Robin Abrams, Former Director Investigative Services, Entertainment Security Company“Newark Minutemen is a fascinating story made even more potent by the author’s personal connection. A must read!”-Rabbi Stacia Deutsch, New York Times bestselling author“A dramatic tale of the brave Newark Minutemen who with muscular patriotism stopped the American-Nazi’s from wiping their feet on the soul of America.”-William S. Hochman, short story writer and Newark resident from 1935-1942 who vividly remembers the dangers posed by the German American Bund“A striking and poignant tale of an oft-neglected part of US history, including the rise of a pro-Nazi movement that gathered 20,000 supporters in Madison Square Garden in 1939 and recruited children to attend Nazi summer camps in New York. An important reminder of the dangers of anti-Semitism and white nationalism that are still prevalent in our country today.”-Samantha Parent Walravens, award-winning journalist and New York Times acclaimed author“The history of the Nazis rise to power in the US should be part of every high school curriculum. Why do we not learn about this in school? Recognizing the vulnerability of our democracy will inspire my generation to pay attention to what’s happening in the world, to become more involved, and to not take our freedom’s for granted.”-Satchel Kaplan
£15.26
Morgan James Publishing llc Messianic Reveal: A Clayton Haley Novel
Book SynopsisMessianic Reveal dives deeply into Sunni and Shia Islam from a political perspective telling a unique story that demystifies for the reader Islam’s hold in the Arab world. Messianic Reveal intelligently and compassionately, and at times humorously, narrates the story of an unexceptional young man of integrity who seeks simply to serve his country, and in so doing follows his instincts into a labyrinth of conspiracies. Most telling is that Messianic Reveal launches from and connects to real events and real people: the 1979 siege of Mecca, Osama Bin Laden’s brother, Ayatollah Khomeini’s temporary residences in France and Iraq, and so on. The most extraordinary and compelling parts of this fictional account are true or otherwise widely believed in the Middle East, and largely come from Ethan T. Burroughs’ personal experiences and relationships with locals there. Throughout Messianic Reveal, readers are taken behind the scenes into the government’s bureaucratic and policy machinations, and the West’s grappling with Islam’s political influence.Trade Review“Ethan Burrough’s Messianic Reveal is a tight, well-thought-out thriller that immerses the reader in the politics, ideologies, and theologies that emanate from the Middle East. While presenting many historical facts of the region, and discussing Islamic theology from Sunni and Shia points of view, it still reads much like a book by Tom Clancy or Joel Rosenberg. All while giving a fascinating account of what it’s like to be a U.S. foreign service officer. Definitely recommended.”- Cliff Smith, Washington Project Director, Middle East Forum"Messianic Reveal is a Clayton Haley action-packed political adventure that should be high on the reading lists of anyone who would absorb the history, culture, and politics of the clashes between Shia and Sunni forces in the Arab world...Messianic Reveal is a powerfully-written, fact-backed suspense story that reviews the challenges of American diplomacy and perceptions, the realities of life in the Middle East, and the special assignments and conundrums of one man who finds himself caught in the middle of it all, acting as a pivot point in a series of extraordinary encounters." - Midwest Book Review
£12.56
Image Comics Satellite Sam Volume 3
Book Synopsis The popular star of a children's show during Golden Age of Television dies, sending waves of scandal and shock through the community of men and women inventing an entire medium on the fly in this blistering finale to this twisted tale of sex, death, and live TV. Collects Satellite Sam #11-15.
£12.59
Deep River Books LLC The Infidel: The SS Occult Conspiracy, a Novel
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£16.14
Bloomsbury USA Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death
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£15.30
Bloomsbury USA Sidney Chambers and the Perils of the Night
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£15.30
Mango Media The Book of Extraordinary Historical Mystery
Book SynopsisYour New Favorite Book of MysteriesIf you are a fan of The Best American Mystery Stories series, you’ll love The Book of Extraordinary Historical Mystery Stories. Some of the Best New Mysteries: The Book of Extraordinary Historical Mystery Stories features outstanding new stories of crime, dering do, fast-paced adventures and puzzles set in the past, ranging widely over the centuries and offering a cornucopia of mysteries, dark deeds, investigations and a fascinating array of investigators both professional and amateur. Never-Before-Seen Stories from Your Favorite Mystery Authors: Collected by one of the genre's eminent editors, Maxim Jakubowski, whose many anthologies like The Mammoth Book of the Adventures of Professor Moriarty have attracted attention and awards, The Book of Extraordinary Historical Mystery Stories features never before seen stories by some of the most renowned American and British crime and thriller authors of today, and includes Linda Stratmann, Amy Myers, Lavie Tidhar, Jane Finnis, O'Neil de Noux, Ashley Lister, Eric Brown, Kate Ellis, A.K. Benedict and many others.
£14.24
Prometheus Books Trial on Mount Koya: A Hiro Hattori Novel
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£13.49
Seventh Street Books A Knife in the Fog
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£13.56
Seventh Street Books The Body in Griffith Park: An Anna Blanc Mystery
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£13.56
Skyhorse Publishing Kill the Indian: A Killstraight Story
Book SynopsisBoggs is among the best Western writers at work today. He writes with depth, flavor, and color.” BooklistYoung Comanches Daniel Killstraight and Charles Flint have been called to Texas. Captain Pratt will be giving a talk on the transformations brought about by the Carlisle Industrial School, of which Killstraight and Flint are shining examples. They’ll be joining a Comanche delegation led by Quanah Parker, who will be negotiating grasslands leasesuntil blown-out gas lamps in Quanah Parker’s room kill a Comanche chief and put Parker in a coma.But the question of who tried to murder Quanah Parker is not an easy one. He had many enemies among both native and white men. Daniel attempts to unravel the mystery while fulfilling his original purpose in Texasto support Captain Pratt’s talk. But he doesn’t know who to trust, especially as the list of suspects begins to dwindle.Will Killstraight figure out who is after Quanah Parker? Can the land disputes of the People be resolved? And will justice be served by the anti-Indian townspeople? Find out in Johnny D. Boggs’s novel Kill the Indian.
£10.44
Bold Strokes Books Death Overdue
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£12.82
Bloomsbury Publishing The Half Life of Valery K
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£22.40
Mascot Books Emily Lowe Public Healthican
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£19.96
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Kennedy's Ghosts
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£16.14
Crooked Lane Books Shot With Crimson
Book SynopsisViolence finds its way to old Hollywood in the eleventh Josephine Tey mystery, perfect for fans of Rhys Bowen and Jacqueline Winspear.September 1939, and the worries of war follow Josephine Tey to Hollywood, where a different sort of battle is raging on the set of Hitchcock’s Rebecca.Then a shocking act of violence reawakens the shadows of the past, with consequences on both sides of the Atlantic, and Josephine and DCI Archie Penrose find themselves on a trail leading back to the house that inspired a young Daphne du Maurier - a trail that echoes Rebecca's timeless themes of obsession, jealousy, and murder.
£23.99
Crooked Lane Books Viviana Valentine Gets Her Man: A Girl Friday
Book SynopsisLife as a secretary in New York just got tougher when Viviana Valentine’s boss goes M.I.A in this debut historical mystery, perfect for fans of Susan Elia MacNeal and Frances Brody.New York City, 1950. Viviana Valentine is Girl Friday to the city’s top private investigator, Tommy Fortuna. The clients can be frustrating, and none more maddening than fabulously wealthy Tallmadge Blackstone, who demands Tommy tail his daughter, Tallulah, and find out why she won’t marry his business partner, a man forty years her senior. Sounds like an open-and-shut case for a P.I. known for busting up organized crime—but the next day, Viviana opens the office to find Tommy missing and a lifeless body on the floor.The cops swoop in and Detective Jake Lawson issues a warrant for Tommy’s arrest. Desperate to clear Tommy’s name, Viviana takes on the Blackstone case herself. When she goes out for a night on the town with the heiress, she begins to learn the secrets behind Tallulah’s headline-grabbing life. Meanwhile, Lawson is itching to solve his murder case, and continues harassing Viviana for answers—until she’s the victim of a series of violent attacks.But Tommy’s still missing, and Viviana is scared. As she digs into the dirty history of the Blackstone empire, she suddenly realizes the true danger at hand. Now, it’s up to her to find her missing boss and make sure he doesn’t turn up D.O.A.
£15.19
Pegasus Crime A Study in Crimson: Sherlock Holmes 1942
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£13.56
Pegasus Crime The Devil's Blaze: Sherlock Holmes 1943
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£20.80
Pegasus Crime Murder Under a Red Moon: A 1920s Bangalore
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£21.56
Pegasus Crime The Dark That Doesn't Sleep
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£20.80
Pegasus Crime Three Fires
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£17.60
Pegasus Crime Paris Requiem
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£17.05
Pegasus Books A Scandalous Affair
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£22.36
Pegasus Books Murder in Tinseltown
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£22.80
Pegasus Books The Rush
£25.12
Bloomsbury USA A Case of Mice and Murder
£21.74
Counterpoint The King's Beast: A Mystery of the American
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£15.29
Soho Press Inc Wedding Station
Book SynopsisThe prequel to David Downing’s bestselling Station series introduces John Russell, an Englishman with a political past who must keep his head down as the Nazis solidify their power.February 27, 1933. In this stunning prequel to the John Russell espionage novels, the Reichstag parliament building in Berlin is set ablaze. It’s just a month after Hitler’s inauguration as Chancellor of Germany, and the Nazis use the torching to justify a campaign of terror against their political opponents. John Russell’s recent separation from his wife threatens his right to reside in Germany and any meaningful relationship with his six-year-old son, Paul. He has just secured work as a crime reporter for a Berlin newspaper, and the crimes which he has to report—the gruesome murder of a rent boy, the hit-and-run death of a professional genealogist, the suspicious disappearance of a Nazi-supporting celebrity fortune-teller—are increasingly entangled in the wider nightmare engulfing Germany. Each new investigation carries the risk of Russell’s falling foul of the authorities, at a time when the rule of law has completely vanished, and the Nazis are running scores of pop-up detention centers, complete with torture chambers, in every corner of Berlin.
£20.96
Soho Press Inc Bertie and the Tinman
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£14.41
Soho Press Inc Bertie and the Seven Bodies
Book SynopsisThe second entry of the Bertie, Prince of Wales mystery series, featuring future King Edward VII, Albert Edward, as an amateur sleuth solving suspicious murders in Victorian England.Bertie, Prince of Wales, is delighted to be invited by Lady Amelia, a recently widowed young woman, to Desborough Hall for a week-long shooting party. The eleven other motley guests include a poet, a chaplain, and an Amazon explorer. The party promises a week of shooting, socializing, and feasting, but these expectations are soon shattered as one of the guests collapses face first into her dessert and dies before the night is out. At first, this death is believed to be an accident, and the party continues with their hunting plans for the week. But when another guest turns up dead the very next day, Bertie realizes that the deaths cannot be coincidence.
£14.41
Soho Press Inc Bertie and the Crime of Passion
Book SynopsisThe third and final entry of the Bertie Prince of Wales mystery series, featuring future King Edward VII, Albert Edward, as an amateur sleuth solving suspicious murders in Victorian England.Bertie, amateur sleuth and the Crown Prince of Wales, loves food and women. This is why Bertie enjoys his frequent trips to Paris, a city that is known not only as the City of Lights, but also as the city of romance and fine cuisine. In 1891, however, Bertie’s yearly Paris vacation becomes much more eventful than he had anticipated when, soon after his arrival, he learns that the future son-in-law of his old friend, Jules d’ Agincourt, was recently murdered at the Moulin Rouge. Unable to resist practicing his detective skills, Bertie resolves to assist the Sûreté, the French police force, in solving the ongoing case. He enlists the help of the reluctant Sarah Bernhardt, renowned actress and Bertie’s long-time friend, and together, Bertie and Sarah travel around Paris following possible leads, questioning witnesses, and even apprehending the murder weapon. When the Sûreté discovers that the victim’s fiancée has a much older lover who was present at the scene of the murder, they immediately arrest him on the suspicion that the murder was a crime of passion. Bertie’s instincts tell him that this man is innocent, but the Sûreté is convinced he is the killer. With the threat of the guillotine looming over the innocent man’s head, it is up to Bertie to find the real killer and close the case before it is too late.
£14.41
Soho Press Inc Union Station
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£22.36
Soho Press Inc The Secret Hours
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£25.16
Soho Press A Disappearance in Fiji
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£14.36
Soho Press The Comfort of Ghosts
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£24.39
Soho Press Inc Keystone
£13.11
Soho Press The Railway Conspiracy
Book SynopsisJudge Dee and Lao She must use all their powers of deduction—and kung fu skills—to take down a sinister conspiracy between Imperial Russia, Japan, and China in a rollicking new mystery set in 1920s London.The follow-up to The Murder of Mr. Ma, this historical adventure-mystery is perfect for fans of Laurie R. King and the Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes films.London, 1924. Following several months abroad, Judge Dee Ren Jie has returned to the city to foil a transaction between a Russian diplomat and a Japanese mercenary. Aided by Lao She—the Watson to his Holmes—along with several other colorful characters, Dee stops the illicit sale of an extremely valuable “dragon-taming” mace.The mace’s owner is a Chinese businesswoman who thanks Dee for its retrieval by throwing a lavish dinner party. In attendance is British banking official A. G. Stephen, who argues with the group about the tenuous state of Chinese nationalism—and is poisoned two days later. Dee knows this cannot be a coincidence, and suspects Stephen won’t be the only victim. Sure enough, a young Chinese communist of Lao’s acquaintance is killed not long after—and a note with a strange symbol is found by his body.What could connect these murders? Could it be related to rumors of a conspiracy regarding the Chinese Eastern Railway? It is once again all on the unlikely crime-solving duo of Dee and Lao to solve the case before anyone else ends up tied to the rails.
£19.70
Soho Press The Murder of Mr. Ma
Book SynopsisFor fans of Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes films, this stunning, swashbuckling series opener by a powerhouse duo of authors is at once comfortingly familiar and tantalizingly new.Two unlikely allies race through the cobbled streets of 1920s London in search of a killer targeting Chinese immigrants.London, 1924. When shy academic Lao She meets larger-than-life Judge Dee Ren Jie, his quiet life abruptly turns from books and lectures to daring chases and narrow escapes. Dee has come to London to investigate the murder of a man he’d known during World War I when serving with the Chinese Labour Corps. No sooner has Dee interviewed the grieving widow than another dead body turns up. Then another. All stabbed to death with a butterfly sword. Will Dee and Lao be able to connect the threads of the murders—or are they next in line as victims?Blending traditional gong’an crime fiction with the most iconic aspects of the Sherlock Holmes canon, Dee and Lao’s first adventure is as thrilling and visual as an action film, as imaginative and transportive as a timeless classic.
£13.55
