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updated June 02, 2009 w/a new "Medieval Noir" from Jeri Westerson

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The Maywrite Library:
E-Texts of Classic & Golden Age Mystery Novels
and Short Stories

 

 Author  [Sleuth]   "Story"

Place

Time


Honore de Balzac                                                                                     

   "An Historical Mystery"
      
(aka "
The Gondreville Mystery")

France

1803


BBC                                                                                    

[interactive fiction]

   "Death in Rome"

Rome

A.D. 80


Jay Bonansinga                                                                                       

[Allen Pinkerton]

"The Butcher's Kingdom"

Chicago

Antebellum Period


Rhys Bowen                                                                                        

[non-series]

   "Doppelganger"

Germany

1938


O'Neil De Noux                                                                    
[Lucien Caye]    

  "Friscoville"

New Orleans

1948

  $ "Guilty of Dust and Sin"

New Orleans

1948

[Detective Jacques Dugas]    

  $ "Maria's Hand"

New Orleans

1891


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle                                                                                      
[Sherlock Holmes]    

   "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle"

London

1878-1914

   (see MysteryNet for all 24 Holmes cases)

"

"


Carola Dunn                                                                                            Belgrave House

[Daisy Dalrymple]

   "Storm in a Tea Shoppe"

London

1920s

   "Unhappy Medium"

''

''


Kathy Lynn Emerson
                                                                             Belgrave House

[Face Down series characters]

   "The Curse of the Figure Flinger"

London

1585

   "The Reiving of Bonville Keep"

Scotland

15th Century?

[Diana Spaulding]
  "The Tell-Tale Twinkle"

New York City

1888

[Dr. Benjamin Northcote]
  "The Kenduskeag Killer"

Maine

1888

Clayton Emery

[Joseph Fisher]                                                                                          

   "If Serpents Envious"

Colonial America

18th Century

   "Inwardly Ravening Wolves"

''

''

   "Vanished As She Sang"

''

''
 

[Robin Hood & Maid Marian]                                                               

   "Dowsing the Demon"

Medieval England

13th Century

   "Floating Bread and Quicksilver"

''

''

   "Flyting, Fighting"

''

''


W. D. Gagliani

 [The Great Belzoni]  

  $ "The Great Belzoni & the Gait of Anubis"

Egypt

20th Century?


Winifred Halsey

[The Medici]

  $ "Murder in the Pitti Palace"

Florence, Italy

15th Century


Thomas Hardy

  "The Thieves Who Couldn't Help Sneezing"

Wessex, England

Medieval Period


Roger W. Harrington

 [Bartholomew Renfrew]    
  "The Curious Case of the Forty Hats"

London

Sherlock Holmes' Era

  "The Case of the Returned Cipher"

London

Sherlock Holmes' Era


Channing Hayden

[Villard St. Pierre D'Monge, "The Fencing Master"]

  $ "The Vampyre in Satan's Soup"

New Orleans

1810

  $ "A Tale of Two Revolutions"

New Orleans

1810


O. Henry

   "A Chaparral Christmas Gift"

Old West

19th Century


Edward D. Hoch

[The Three Wisemen]

   "The Three Travellers"

Holy Land

A.D. 0


Steve Hockensmith

[Otto Amlingmeyer]

   "Dear Mr. Holmes (aka "That Holmes Feller)"

Dodge City, Kansas

1892


K.B. Inglee

[Emily Lothrop Lawrence]

   "Murder in a Posh Hotel"

Boston, Massachusetts

1894

   "Emily Lothrop and the Man in the Attic" Cambridge, Massachusetts 1859


David T. Jarvis

[Horatio]

   "Elementary, My Dear Hamlet"

Denmark

c.1500


Simon Levack

[Yaotl]

   "Law and Ordure"

Aztec Mexico

c.1517


Charles Mossop

[Sir John Square]

  $  "Captain Square and the Admiral's Daughter"

At Sea

Napoleonic Wars

  $  "Captain Square and the Wrong Man"

At Sea

Napoleonic Wars

[Magistrate Lin Jiang]

  $  "Magistrate Lin and the Mandate of Heaven"

China

Ming Dynasty


Amy Myers                                       

[Aphrodite, Greek Goddess of Love]

   "Who Killed Orpheus?"

Ancient Greece

10th-12th Cent. B.C.


Beverle Graves Myers

[non-series characters]

   "A Baroque Phantom"

Venice, Italy

1797


Camille Nelson

   "The Story of Tetisheri"

Egypt

13th Century B.C.


I.J. Parker

[Akitada]

  $  "Death and Cherry Blossoms"

Heian Kyo (Kyoto), Japan

11th Century

 Edgar Allen Poe
[C. Auguste Dupin]

   "Murders in the Rue Morgue"

Paris

19th Century

Project Gutenberg
[on the Advanced Search page, type "Mystery" into the Subject Box & hit "Search"]

   complete classic mysteries by Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle & more!

Mary Reed & Eric Mayer
[non-series characters]                                                                               

   "The Thorn"
 

Oxford, England

20th Century

Candace Robb
[Owen Archer]                                                                               

   "The Bone Jar"

York, England

14th Century

Lynda S. Robinson
[Lord Meren]                                                                               

   "Heretic's Dagger"

Thebes, Egypt

14th Century B.C.

 Damon Runyun

   "Dancing Dan's Christmas"

New York City

early
20th Century

Walter Satterthwait

   "One of A Kind"

London

19th Century

   "Cassoulet"
 

Paris

20th Century

 R.H. Shimer                                      
[Erasmus of Rotterdam]

   "The Witch of Mechelen"
 

Belgium

16th Century

 Kelli Stanley                                   
[Arcturus]

   "Convivium"
 

Roman Britain

83 A.D.


I. Van Laningham

[Andi Holmes]

   "Down by the Song Saigon"

Viet Nam

1970

   "The Working Girls Go By"

Viet Nam

1970

   "Prologue: Howard Line"
 

Chicago, Illinois

1980


Karen Vogeley

   "Mrs. Hendricks Regrets"
 

London

19th Century


Jeri Westerson

[Crispin Guest]

   "Grave Prayers"
 

London

1384


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