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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Uncle_Abner_Master_of_Mysteries_1918.jpeg/220px-Uncle_Abner_Master_of_Mysteries_1918.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="306" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f2/Uncle_Abner_Master_of_Mysteries_1918.jpeg 1.5x" data-file-width="252" data-file-height="350" /></a><figcaption>Melville Davisson Post's <i>Uncle Abner: Master of Mysteries</i> collection (1918)</figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>historical mystery</b> or <b>historical whodunit</b> is a subgenre of two <a href="/wiki/Literary_genre" title="Literary genre">literary genres</a>, <a href="/wiki/Historical_fiction" title="Historical fiction">historical fiction</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mystery_fiction" title="Mystery fiction">mystery fiction</a>. These works are set in a time period considered historical from the author's perspective, and the central plot involves the solving of a mystery or crime (usually murder). Though works combining these genres have existed since at least the early 20th century, many credit <a href="/wiki/Ellis_Peters" class="mw-redirect" title="Ellis Peters">Ellis Peters</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Cadfael_Chronicles" title="The Cadfael Chronicles">Cadfael Chronicles</a></i> (1977–1994) for popularizing what would become known as the historical mystery.<sup id="cite_ref-PW_Picker_2010_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PW_Picker_2010-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WSJ_2010_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WSJ_2010-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The increasing popularity and prevalence of this type of fiction in subsequent decades has spawned a distinct subgenre recognized by the publishing industry and libraries.<sup id="cite_ref-WSJ_2010_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WSJ_2010-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WS_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WS-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-PPL_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PPL-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Akron_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Akron-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Publishers_Weekly" title="Publishers Weekly">Publishers Weekly</a></i> noted in 2010 of the genre, "The past decade has seen an explosion in both quantity and quality. Never before have so many historical mysteries been published, by so many gifted writers, and covering such a wide range of times and places."<sup id="cite_ref-PW_Picker_2010_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PW_Picker_2010-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Editor Keith Kahla concurs, "From a small group of writers with a very specialized audience, the historical mystery has become a critically acclaimed, award-winning genre with a toehold on the <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Best_Seller_list" title="The New York Times Best Seller list"><i>New York Times</i> bestseller list</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-PW_Picker_2010_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PW_Picker_2010-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Since 1999, the British <a href="/wiki/Crime_Writers%27_Association" title="Crime Writers' Association">Crime Writers' Association</a> has awarded the <a href="/wiki/CWA_Historical_Dagger" title="CWA Historical Dagger">CWA Historical Dagger</a> award to novels in the genre.<sup id="cite_ref-CWA_Dagger_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CWA_Dagger-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Left_Coast_Crime" title="Left Coast Crime">Left Coast Crime</a> conference has presented its Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery award (for mysteries set prior to 1950) since 2004.<sup id="cite_ref-Alexander_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Alexander-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origins">Origins</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historical_mystery&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Origins"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Though the term "whodunit" was coined sometime in the early 1930s,<sup id="cite_ref-1946wolfe_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1946wolfe-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1985words_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1985words-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> it has been argued that the detective story itself has its origins as early as the 429 BC <a href="/wiki/Sophocles" title="Sophocles">Sophocles</a> play <i><a href="/wiki/Oedipus_Rex" title="Oedipus Rex">Oedipus Rex</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the 10th century tale "<a href="/wiki/The_Three_Apples" title="The Three Apples">The Three Apples</a>" from <i><a href="/wiki/One_Thousand_and_One_Nights" title="One Thousand and One Nights">One Thousand and One Nights</a></i> (<i>Arabian Nights</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Ming_dynasty" title="Ming dynasty">Ming dynasty</a> (1368–1644), <i><a href="/wiki/Gong%27an_fiction" title="Gong'an fiction">gong'an</a></i> ("crime-case") folk novels were written in which government <a href="/wiki/Magistrate" title="Magistrate">magistrates</a>—primarily the historical <a href="/wiki/Di_Renjie" title="Di Renjie">Di Renjie</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Tang_dynasty" title="Tang dynasty">Tang dynasty</a> (618–907) and <a href="/wiki/Bao_Zheng" title="Bao Zheng">Bao Zheng</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Song_dynasty" title="Song dynasty">Song dynasty</a> (960–1279)—investigate cases and then as judges determine guilt and punishment. The stories were set in the past but contained many <a href="/wiki/Anachronism" title="Anachronism">anachronisms</a>. <a href="/wiki/Robert_van_Gulik" title="Robert van Gulik">Robert van Gulik</a> came across the 18th century anonymously written Chinese manuscript <i><a href="/wiki/Di_Gong_An" class="mw-redirect" title="Di Gong An">Di Gong An</a></i>, in his view closer to the Western tradition of detective fiction than other <i>gong'an</i> tales and so more likely to appeal to non-Chinese readers, and in 1949 published it in English as <i><a href="/wiki/Celebrated_Cases_of_Judge_Dee" title="Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee">Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee</a></i>. He subsequently wrote his own <a href="/wiki/Judge_Dee_stories" class="mw-redirect" title="Judge Dee stories">Judge Dee stories</a> (1951–1968) in the same style and time period.<sup id="cite_ref-WSJ_2010_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WSJ_2010-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Dee_Herbert_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dee_Herbert-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Dee_Hegel_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dee_Hegel-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Perhaps the first modern English work that can be classified as both historical fiction and a mystery however is the 1911 <a href="/wiki/Melville_Davisson_Post" title="Melville Davisson Post">Melville Davisson Post</a> story "The Angel of the Lord", which features amateur detective <a href="/wiki/Uncle_Abner" class="mw-redirect" title="Uncle Abner">Uncle Abner</a> in pre-<a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a> <a href="/wiki/West_Virginia" title="West Virginia">West Virginia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-PW_Picker_2010_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PW_Picker_2010-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Abner_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Abner-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Barry Zeman of the <a href="/wiki/Mystery_Writers_of_America" title="Mystery Writers of America">Mystery Writers of America</a> calls the Uncle Abner short stories "the starting point for true historical mysteries."<sup id="cite_ref-PW_Picker_2010_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PW_Picker_2010-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 22 Uncle Abner tales Post wrote between 1911 and 1928, the character puzzles out local mysteries with his keen observation and knowledge of the Bible.<sup id="cite_ref-Abner_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Abner-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was not until 1943 that American mystery writer <a href="/wiki/Lillian_de_la_Torre" title="Lillian de la Torre">Lillian de la Torre</a> did something similar in the story "The Great Seal of England", casting 18th century literary figures <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Johnson" title="Samuel Johnson">Samuel Johnson</a> and <a href="/wiki/James_Boswell" title="James Boswell">James Boswell</a> into <a href="/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes" title="Sherlock Holmes">Sherlock Holmes</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dr._Watson" title="Dr. Watson">Dr. Watson</a> roles in what would become the first of her <i>Dr. Sam: Johnson, Detector</i> series of stories.<sup id="cite_ref-DLT_obit_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DLT_obit-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-DLT_bio_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DLT_bio-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Carr_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carr-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1944, <a href="/wiki/Agatha_Christie" title="Agatha Christie">Agatha Christie</a> published <i><a href="/wiki/Death_Comes_as_the_End" title="Death Comes as the End">Death Comes as the End</a></i>, a mystery novel set in ancient <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a> and the first full-length historical whodunit.<sup id="cite_ref-PW_Picker_2010_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PW_Picker_2010-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Carr_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carr-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Christie_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Christie-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-PBS_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PBS-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1950, <a href="/wiki/John_Dickson_Carr" title="John Dickson Carr">John Dickson Carr</a> published the second full-length historical mystery novel called <i><a href="/wiki/The_Bride_of_Newgate" title="The Bride of Newgate">The Bride of Newgate</a></i>, set at the close of the <a href="/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars" title="Napoleonic Wars">Napoleonic Wars</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Carr_19-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carr-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Popularization">Popularization</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historical_mystery&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Popularization"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1970, <a href="/wiki/Peter_Lovesey" title="Peter Lovesey">Peter Lovesey</a> began a series of novels featuring <a href="/wiki/Sergeant_Cribb" class="mw-redirect" title="Sergeant Cribb">Sergeant Cribb</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Victorian_era" title="Victorian era">Victorian</a>-era police detective, and <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Peters" class="mw-redirect" title="Elizabeth Peters">Elizabeth Peters</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Amelia_Peabody_series" title="Amelia Peabody series">Amelia Peabody series</a> (1975–2010) followed the adventures of the titular Victorian lady/<a href="/wiki/Archaeologist" class="mw-redirect" title="Archaeologist">archaeologist</a> as she solved mysteries surrounding her excavations in early 20th century <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-PW_Picker_2010_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PW_Picker_2010-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> But historical mystery stories remained an oddity until the late 1970s, with the success of <a href="/wiki/Ellis_Peters" class="mw-redirect" title="Ellis Peters">Ellis Peters</a> and her <i><a href="/wiki/The_Cadfael_Chronicles" title="The Cadfael Chronicles">Cadfael Chronicles</a></i> (1977–1994), featuring <a href="/wiki/Benedictine_monk" class="mw-redirect" title="Benedictine monk">Benedictine monk</a> <a href="/wiki/Cadfael" title="Cadfael">Brother Cadfael</a> and set in 12th century <a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury" title="Shrewsbury">Shrewsbury</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-PW_Picker_2010_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PW_Picker_2010-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WSJ_2010_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WSJ_2010-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Cadfael_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cadfael-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Umberto_Eco" title="Umberto Eco">Umberto Eco</a>'s one-off <i><a href="/wiki/The_Name_of_the_Rose" title="The Name of the Rose">The Name of the Rose</a></i> (1980) also helped popularize the concept, and starting in 1979, author <a href="/wiki/Anne_Perry" title="Anne Perry">Anne Perry</a> wrote two series of Victorian era mysteries featuring <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Pitt_(fictional_character)" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Pitt (fictional character)">Thomas Pitt</a> (1979–2013) and <a href="/wiki/William_Monk" title="William Monk">William Monk</a> (1990–2013). However it was not until about 1990 that the genre's popularity expanded significantly with works such as <a href="/wiki/Lindsey_Davis" title="Lindsey Davis">Lindsey Davis</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Didius_Falco" class="mw-redirect" title="Marcus Didius Falco">Falco</a> and Flavia Albia novels (1989–2022), set in the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">Roman Empire</a> of <a href="/wiki/Vespasian" title="Vespasian">Vespasian</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-PW_Picker_2010_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PW_Picker_2010-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WSJ_2010_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WSJ_2010-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/John_Maddox_Roberts" title="John Maddox Roberts">John Maddox Roberts</a>'s <a href="/wiki/SPQR_series" title="SPQR series"><i>SPQR</i> series</a> (1990–2010) and <a href="/wiki/Steven_Saylor" title="Steven Saylor">Steven Saylor</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Roma_Sub_Rosa" title="Roma Sub Rosa">Roma Sub Rosa</a></i> novels (1991–2018), both set in the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Republic" title="Roman Republic">Roman Republic</a> in the 1st century BC;<sup id="cite_ref-PW_Picker_2010_1-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PW_Picker_2010-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Paul_C._Doherty" title="Paul C. Doherty">Paul Doherty</a>'s various series, including the <i>Hugh Corbett</i> medieval mysteries (1986–2010), the <i>Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan</i> (1991–2012), and the <i>Canterbury Tales of Mystery and Murder</i> (1994–2012). For <a href="/wiki/Mike_Ashley_(writer)" title="Mike Ashley (writer)">Mike Ashley</a>'s<i>The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives</i> (1995), <a href="/wiki/F._Gwynplaine_MacIntyre" title="F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre">F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre</a> wrote "Death in the Dawntime", a <a href="/wiki/Locked_room_mystery" class="mw-redirect" title="Locked room mystery">locked room mystery</a> (or rather, sealed cave mystery) set in <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a> around 35,000 BC, which Ashley suggests is the furthest in the past a historical mystery has been set to date.<sup id="cite_ref-MacIntyre_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MacIntyre-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Diana_Gabaldon" title="Diana Gabaldon">Diana Gabaldon</a> began the <a href="/wiki/Lord_John_series" title="Lord John series"><i>Lord John</i> series</a> in 1998, casting a recurring secondary character from her <a href="/wiki/Outlander_(book_series)" title="Outlander (book series)"><i>Outlander</i> series</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lord_John_Grey_(character)" title="Lord John Grey (character)">Lord John Grey</a>, as a nobleman-military officer-amateur detective in 18th century <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-LJ_note_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LJ_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Gabaldon_Grey_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gabaldon_Grey-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-EW_Devils_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EW_Devils-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Using the pen name Ariana Franklin, <a href="/wiki/Diana_Norman" title="Diana Norman">Diana Norman</a> wrote four <i><a href="/wiki/Mistress_of_the_Art_of_Death" class="mw-redirect" title="Mistress of the Art of Death">Mistress of the Art of Death</a></i> novels between 2007 and 2010, featuring 12th-century English medical examiner <a href="/wiki/Adelia_Aguilar" class="mw-redirect" title="Adelia Aguilar">Adelia Aguilar</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Norman_obit_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Norman_obit-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Publishers_Weekly" title="Publishers Weekly">Publishers Weekly</a></i> noted in 2010 of the genre, "The past decade has seen an explosion in both quantity and quality. Never before have so many historical mysteries been published, by so many gifted writers, and covering such a wide range of times and places."<sup id="cite_ref-PW_Picker_2010_1-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PW_Picker_2010-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Editor Keith Kahla concurs, "From a small group of writers with a very specialized audience, the historical mystery has become a critically acclaimed, award-winning genre with a toehold on the <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Best_Seller_list" title="The New York Times Best Seller list"><i>New York Times</i> bestseller list</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-PW_Picker_2010_1-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PW_Picker_2010-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards">Awards</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historical_mystery&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1999, the British <a href="/wiki/Crime_Writers%27_Association" title="Crime Writers' Association">Crime Writers' Association</a> awarded the first <a href="/wiki/CWA_Historical_Dagger" title="CWA Historical Dagger">CWA Historical Dagger</a> award to a novel in the genre.<sup id="cite_ref-CWA_Dagger_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CWA_Dagger-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The award was called the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger through 2012. In 2014, Endeavour Press supported the award, which is called the Endeavour Historical Dagger for the 2014 and 2015 awards.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Left_Coast_Crime" title="Left Coast Crime">Left Coast Crime</a> conference has presented its Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery award (for mysteries set prior to 1950) since 2004.<sup id="cite_ref-Alexander_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Alexander-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Variations">Variations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historical_mystery&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Variations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In an early twist of the genre, <a href="/wiki/Josephine_Tey" title="Josephine Tey">Josephine Tey</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Daughter_of_Time" title="The Daughter of Time">The Daughter of Time</a></i> (1951) features a modern police detective who alleviates an extended hospital stay by investigating the 15th century case of <a href="/wiki/Richard_III_of_England" title="Richard III of England">Richard III of England</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Princes_in_the_Tower" title="Princes in the Tower">Princes in the Tower</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Tey_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tey-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Georgette_Heyer" title="Georgette Heyer">Georgette Heyer</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Talisman_Ring" title="The Talisman Ring">The Talisman Ring</a></i> (1936), set in 1793 England, is a <a href="/wiki/Regency_romance" title="Regency romance">Regency romance</a> with elements of mystery that <a href="/wiki/Jane_Aiken_Hodge" title="Jane Aiken Hodge">Jane Aiken Hodge</a> called "very nearly a detective story in period costume".<sup id="cite_ref-Hodge_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hodge-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many of Heyer's other historical romances have <a href="/wiki/Thriller_(genre)" title="Thriller (genre)">thriller</a> elements but to a much lesser extent.<sup id="cite_ref-Hodge_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hodge-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Other variations include mystery novels set in <a href="/wiki/Alternate_history" title="Alternate history">alternate history</a> timelines or even <a href="/wiki/List_of_fictional_science_fiction_and_fantasy_detectives" class="mw-redirect" title="List of fictional science fiction and fantasy detectives">fantasy</a> worlds. These would include <i><a href="/wiki/The_Ultimate_Solution" title="The Ultimate Solution">The Ultimate Solution</a></i> (1973) by <a href="/wiki/Eric_Norden" class="mw-redirect" title="Eric Norden">Eric Norden</a> and <i><a href="/wiki/Fatherland_(novel)" title="Fatherland (novel)">Fatherland</a></i> (1992) by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Harris_(novelist)" title="Robert Harris (novelist)">Robert Harris</a>, both being <a href="/wiki/Police_procedural" title="Police procedural">police procedurals</a> set in alternate timelines where the <a href="/wiki/Axis_victory_in_World_War_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Axis victory in World War II">Nazis won World War II</a>; <a href="/wiki/Randall_Garrett" title="Randall Garrett">Randall Garrett</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Lord_Darcy_(character)" title="Lord Darcy (character)">Lord Darcy</a> series, taking place in a 20th-century in which magic is possible; and <a href="/wiki/Phyllis_Ann_Karr" title="Phyllis Ann Karr">Phyllis Ann Karr</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Idylls_of_the_Queen" title="The Idylls of the Queen">The Idylls of the Queen</a></i> (1982), set in <a href="/wiki/King_Arthur" title="King Arthur">King Arthur</a>'s court as depicted in Arthurian myth and with no attempt at historical accuracy. </p><p>The genre would not include fiction which was contemporary at the time of writing, such as <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle" title="Arthur Conan Doyle">Arthur Conan Doyle</a>'s canonical <a href="/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes" title="Sherlock Holmes">Sherlock Holmes</a> works set in <a href="/wiki/Victorian_era" title="Victorian era">Victorian England</a>, or the <a href="/wiki/Lord_Peter_Wimsey" title="Lord Peter Wimsey">Lord Peter Wimsey</a> books by <a href="/wiki/Dorothy_L._Sayers" title="Dorothy L. Sayers">Dorothy L. Sayers</a> set in the <a href="/wiki/Interwar_period" title="Interwar period">Interwar period</a>. However, subsequent Holmes and Wimsey books written by other authors decades later could arguably be classified as historical mysteries.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="List_of_fictional_historical_detectives">List of fictional historical detectives</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historical_mystery&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: List of fictional historical detectives"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The following list consists of fictional historical detectives in chronological order of their time period setting: </p> <table class="sortable wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th style="background:#ccc; width:20%;">Detective</th> <th style="background:#ccc; width:10%;">Setting</th> <th style="background:#ccc; width:10%;">Period</th> <th style="background:#ccc; width:20%;">Creator</th> <th style="background:#ccc; width:20%;">Debut Title</th> <th style="background:#ccc; width:10%;">Debut Year </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_Bak" class="mw-redirect" title="Lieutenant Bak">Lieutenant Bak</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Egypt" title="Ancient Egypt">Ancient Egypt</a></td> <td data-sort-value="-1500">15th century BCE</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lauren_Haney" title="Lauren Haney">Lauren Haney</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Right_Hand_of_Amon" class="mw-redirect" title="The Right Hand of Amon">The Right Hand of Amon</a></i></td> <td>1997 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Amerokte" class="mw-redirect" title="Amerokte">Amerokte</a></td> <td>Ancient Egypt</td> <td data-sort-value="-1500">15th century BCE</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Paul_C._Doherty" title="Paul C. Doherty">Paul Doherty</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Mask_of_Ra" class="mw-redirect" title="The Mask of Ra">The Mask of Ra</a></i></td> <td>1998 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Lord_Meren" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Meren">Lord Meren</a><sup id="cite_ref-WSJ_2010_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WSJ_2010-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td> <td>Ancient Egypt</td> <td data-sort-value="-1400">14th century BCE</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lynda_S._Robinson" class="mw-redirect" title="Lynda S. Robinson">Lynda S. Robinson</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Murder_in_the_Place_of_Anubis" class="mw-redirect" title="Murder in the Place of Anubis">Murder in the Place of Anubis</a></i></td> <td>1994 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Rahotep_(character)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rahotep (character)">Rahotep</a><sup id="cite_ref-PW_Picker_2010_1-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PW_Picker_2010-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td> <td>Ancient Egypt</td> <td data-sort-value="-1400">14th century BCE</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nick_Drake_(poet)" title="Nick Drake (poet)">Nick Drake</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Nefertiti:_The_Book_of_the_Dead" class="mw-redirect" title="Nefertiti: The Book of the Dead">Nefertiti: The Book of the Dead</a></i></td> <td>2006 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Heracles_Pontor" class="mw-redirect" title="Heracles Pontor">Heracles Pontor</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Classical_Athens" title="Classical Athens">Classical Athens</a></td> <td data-sort-value="-450">Late 5th century BCE</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Carlos_Somoza" title="José Carlos Somoza">José Carlos Somoza</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Athenian_Murders" title="The Athenian Murders">The Athenian Murders</a></i></td> <td>2000 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Nicolaos_(Corby_character)" class="mw-redirect" title="Nicolaos (Corby character)">Nicolaos</a></td> <td>Classical Athens</td> <td data-sort-value="-500">5th century BCE</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gary_Corby" title="Gary Corby">Gary Corby</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Pericles_Commission" class="mw-redirect" title="The Pericles Commission">The Pericles Commission</a></i></td> <td>2010 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Aristotle" title="Aristotle">Aristotle</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Classical_Athens" title="Classical Athens">Classical Athens</a></td> <td data-sort-value="-450">4th century BCE</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Doody" title="Margaret Doody">Margaret Doody</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Doody#The_Aristotle_series" title="Margaret Doody">Aristotle Detective</a></i></td> <td>1978 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Alexander_the_Great" title="Alexander the Great">Alexander the Great</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greece" title="Ancient Greece">Ancient Greece</a></td> <td data-sort-value="-400">4th century BCE</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Paul_C._Doherty" title="Paul C. Doherty">Paul Doherty</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/A_Murder_in_Macedon" class="mw-redirect" title="A Murder in Macedon">A Murder in Macedon</a></i></td> <td>1997 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Senator Decius Metellus</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Roman_Republic" title="Roman Republic">Roman Republic</a></td> <td data-sort-value="-99">1st century BCE</td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Maddox_Roberts" title="John Maddox Roberts">John Maddox Roberts</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/SPQR_series" title="SPQR series">SPQR</a></i></td> <td>1990<sup id="cite_ref-PW_Picker_2010_1-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PW_Picker_2010-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Gordianus_the_Finder" class="mw-redirect" title="Gordianus the Finder">Gordianus the Finder</a></td> <td>Roman Republic</td> <td data-sort-value="-99">1st century BCE</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Steven_Saylor" title="Steven Saylor">Steven Saylor</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Roman_Blood" title="Roman Blood">Roman Blood</a></i></td> <td>1991<sup id="cite_ref-PW_Picker_2010_1-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PW_Picker_2010-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Marcus Corvinus</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a></td> <td data-sort-value="19">1st century CE</td> <td>David Wishart</td> <td><i>Ovid</i></td> <td>1995 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Marcus_Didius_Falco" class="mw-redirect" title="Marcus Didius Falco">Marcus Didius Falco</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">Roman Empire</a></td> <td data-sort-value="70">70 to 77 CE</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lindsey_Davis" title="Lindsey Davis">Lindsey Davis</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Silver_Pigs" title="The Silver Pigs">The Silver Pigs</a></i></td> <td>1989<sup id="cite_ref-PW_Picker_2010_1-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PW_Picker_2010-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WSJ_2010_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WSJ_2010-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Roman_Mysteries" title="The Roman Mysteries">Flavia Gemina</a></td> <td>Roman Empire</td> <td data-sort-value="79">79 to 81 CE</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Caroline_Lawrence" title="Caroline Lawrence">Caroline Lawrence</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Thieves_of_Ostia" class="mw-redirect" title="The Thieves of Ostia">The Thieves of Ostia</a></i></td> <td>2001 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Flavia_Albia" class="mw-redirect" title="Flavia Albia">Flavia Albia</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">Roman Empire</a></td> <td data-sort-value="89">89 CE</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lindsey_Davis" title="Lindsey Davis">Lindsey Davis</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Ides_of_April" title="The Ides of April">The Ides of April</a></i></td> <td>2013 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Gaius Petreius Ruso</td> <td>Roman Empire</td> <td data-sort-value="150">2nd century CE</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ruth_Downie" title="Ruth Downie">Ruth Downie</a></td> <td><i>Ruso and the Disappearing Dancing Girls</i> (U.S. title: <i>Medicus</i>)</td> <td>2006 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Libertus_(character)" class="mw-redirect" title="Libertus (character)">Libertus</a><sup id="cite_ref-PW_Picker_2010_1-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PW_Picker_2010-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td> <td>Roman Empire</td> <td data-sort-value="150">Late 2nd century CE</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Rosemary_Rowe" class="mw-redirect" title="Rosemary Rowe">Rosemary Rowe</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Germanicus_Mosaic" class="mw-redirect" title="The Germanicus Mosaic">The Germanicus Mosaic</a></i></td> <td>1999 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/John,_the_Lord_Chamberlain" class="mw-redirect" title="John, the Lord Chamberlain">John, the Lord Chamberlain</a><sup id="cite_ref-PW_Picker_2010_1-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PW_Picker_2010-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Constantinople" title="Constantinople">Constantinople</a></td> <td data-sort-value="500">6th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mary_Reed_(writer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mary Reed (writer)">Mary Reed</a>/<a href="/wiki/Eric_Mayer" class="mw-redirect" title="Eric Mayer">Eric Mayer</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/One_for_Sorrow_(1999_novel)" class="mw-redirect" title="One for Sorrow (1999 novel)">One for Sorrow</a></i></td> <td>1999<sup id="cite_ref-PW_One4Sorrow_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PW_One4Sorrow-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Judge_Dee" title="Judge Dee">Judge Dee</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a></td> <td data-sort-value="600">7th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Robert_van_Gulik" title="Robert van Gulik">Robert van Gulik</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Di_Gong_An" class="mw-redirect" title="Di Gong An">Di Gong An</a></i></td> <td>1949<sup id="cite_ref-Dee_Herbert_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dee_Herbert-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Dee_Hegel_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dee_Hegel-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Li_Kao" class="mw-redirect" title="Li Kao">Li Kao</a></td> <td>China</td> <td data-sort-value="600">7th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Barry_Hughart" title="Barry Hughart">Barry Hughart</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Bridge_of_Birds" title="Bridge of Birds">Bridge of Birds</a></i></td> <td>1984 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Sister_Fidelma" class="mw-redirect" title="Sister Fidelma">Sister Fidelma</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland">Ireland</a></td> <td data-sort-value="600">7th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Peter_Tremayne" class="mw-redirect" title="Peter Tremayne">Peter Tremayne</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Absolution_by_Murder" class="mw-redirect" title="Absolution by Murder">Absolution by Murder</a></i></td> <td>1994 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Father George</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine Empire</a></td> <td data-sort-value="700">8th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Harry_Turtledove" title="Harry Turtledove">Harry Turtledove</a></td> <td><i>Farmers' Law</i></td> <td>2000 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Sugawara_Akitada" title="Sugawara Akitada">Sugawara Akitada</a><sup id="cite_ref-PW_Picker_2010_1-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PW_Picker_2010-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a></td> <td data-sort-value="1000">11th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/I._J._Parker" title="I. J. Parker">I. J. Parker</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Instruments_of_Murder" class="mw-redirect" title="Instruments of Murder">Instruments of Murder</a></i></td> <td>1997 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Lassair" class="mw-redirect" title="Lassair">Lassair</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a></td> <td data-sort-value="1000">11th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Alys_Clare" title="Alys Clare">Alys Clare</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Out_of_the_Dawn_Light" class="mw-redirect" title="Out of the Dawn Light">Out of the Dawn Light</a></i></td> <td>2009 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Cadfael" title="Cadfael">Brother Cadfael</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Wales</a> and England</td> <td data-sort-value="1120">1120, 1137–1145</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ellis_Peters" class="mw-redirect" title="Ellis Peters">Ellis Peters</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/A_Morbid_Taste_for_Bones" title="A Morbid Taste for Bones">A Morbid Taste for Bones</a></i></td> <td>1977<sup id="cite_ref-PW_Picker_2010_1-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PW_Picker_2010-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WSJ_2010_2-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WSJ_2010-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Cadfael_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cadfael-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Justin de Quincy</td> <td>England</td> <td data-sort-value="1100">12th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sharon_Kay_Penman" title="Sharon Kay Penman">Sharon Kay Penman</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Queen%27s_Man" class="mw-redirect" title="The Queen's Man">The Queen's Man</a></i></td> <td>1996 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Josse_d%27Acquin" class="mw-redirect" title="Josse d'Acquin">Josse d'Acquin</a>/<a href="/wiki/Abbess_of_Hawkenlye" class="mw-redirect" title="Abbess of Hawkenlye">Abbess of Hawkenlye</a></td> <td>England</td> <td data-sort-value="1100">12th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Alys_Clare" title="Alys Clare">Alys Clare</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Fortune_Like_the_Moon" class="mw-redirect" title="Fortune Like the Moon">Fortune Like the Moon</a></i></td> <td>1999 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Magdalene la a Bâtarde</td> <td><a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a></td> <td data-sort-value="1100">12th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Roberta_Gellis" title="Roberta Gellis">Roberta Gellis</a></td> <td><i>A Mortal Bane</i></td> <td>1999 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Adelia_Aguilar" class="mw-redirect" title="Adelia Aguilar">Adelia Aguilar</a></td> <td>England</td> <td data-sort-value="1100">12th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ariana_Franklin" class="mw-redirect" title="Ariana Franklin">Ariana Franklin</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Mistress_of_the_Art_of_Death" class="mw-redirect" title="Mistress of the Art of Death">Mistress of the Art of Death</a></i></td> <td>2007<sup id="cite_ref-Norman_obit_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Norman_obit-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Corbett" class="mw-redirect" title="Hugh Corbett">Hugh Corbett</a></td> <td>England</td> <td data-sort-value="1200">13th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Paul_C._Doherty" title="Paul C. Doherty">Paul Doherty</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Satan_in_St_Mary%27s" class="mw-redirect" title="Satan in St Mary's">Satan in St Mary's</a></i></td> <td>1986 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Theophilos (Feste)</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Illyria" title="Illyria">Illyria</a>, Constantinople,<br /> <a href="/wiki/Tyre,_Lebanon" title="Tyre, Lebanon">Tyre</a>, <a href="/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark">Denmark</a>, etc.</td> <td data-sort-value="1200">13th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Alan_Gordon_(author)" title="Alan Gordon (author)">Alan Gordon</a></td> <td><i>Thirteenth Night</i></td> <td>1999 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Edwin Weaver</td> <td>England</td> <td data-sort-value="1200">13th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Catherine_Hanley" title="Catherine Hanley">Catherine Hanley</a></td> <td><i>The Sins of the Father</i></td> <td>2009 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Oldřich of Chlum</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bohemia" title="Bohemia">Bohemia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Moravia" title="Moravia">Moravia</a></td> <td data-sort-value="1200">13th century</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vlastimil_Vondru%C5%A1ka&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Vlastimil Vondruška (page does not exist)">Vlastimil Vondruška</a></td> <td><i>Dýka s hadem</i> (<i>Dagger with a snake</i>)</td> <td>2002 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/William_of_Baskerville" title="William of Baskerville">Brother William of Baskerville</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a></td> <td>1327</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Umberto_Eco" title="Umberto Eco">Umberto Eco</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Name_of_the_Rose" title="The Name of the Rose">The Name of the Rose</a></i></td> <td>1980 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Baldwin de Furnshill</td> <td>Devon</td> <td data-sort-value="1300">14th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Michael_Jecks" title="Michael Jecks">Michael Jecks</a></td> <td><i>The Last Templar</i></td> <td>1995 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Bartholomew_(character)" class="mw-redirect" title="Matthew Bartholomew (character)">Matthew Bartholomew</a><sup id="cite_ref-PW_Picker_2010_1-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PW_Picker_2010-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td> <td>England</td> <td data-sort-value="1300">14th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Susanna_Gregory" title="Susanna Gregory">Susanna Gregory</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/A_Plague_on_Both_Your_Houses" class="mw-redirect" title="A Plague on Both Your Houses">A Plague on Both Your Houses</a></i></td> <td>1996 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mathilde_of_Westminster" class="mw-redirect" title="Mathilde of Westminster">Mathilde of Westminster</a></td> <td>England</td> <td data-sort-value="1300">14th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Paul_C._Doherty" title="Paul C. Doherty">Paul Doherty</a></td> <td><i>The Cup of Ghosts</i></td> <td>2005 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Brother_Athelstan" class="mw-redirect" title="Brother Athelstan">Brother Athelstan</a></td> <td>London</td> <td data-sort-value="1350">Late 14th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Paul_C._Doherty" title="Paul C. Doherty">Paul Doherty</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Nightingale_Gallery" class="mw-redirect" title="The Nightingale Gallery">The Nightingale Gallery</a></i></td> <td>1991 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Owen_Archer" class="mw-redirect" title="Owen Archer">Owen Archer</a></td> <td>York</td> <td data-sort-value="1350">Late 14th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Candace_Robb" title="Candace Robb">Candace Robb</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Apothecary_Rose" class="mw-redirect" title="The Apothecary Rose">The Apothecary Rose</a> </i></td> <td>1993 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Melchior_Wakenstede" class="mw-redirect" title="Melchior Wakenstede">Melchior Wakenstede</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Estonia" title="Estonia">Estonia</a></td> <td data-sort-value="1400">Early 15th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Indrek_Hargla" title="Indrek Hargla">Indrek Hargla</a></td> <td><i>Apothecary Melchior and the Mystery of St Olaf's Church</i></td> <td>2010 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Roger_the_Chapman" class="mw-redirect" title="Roger the Chapman">Roger the Chapman</a></td> <td>England</td> <td data-sort-value="1400">15th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kate_Sedley" title="Kate Sedley">Kate Sedley</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Death_and_the_Chapman" class="mw-redirect" title="Death and the Chapman">Death and the Chapman</a></i></td> <td>1991 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Dame Frevisse<sup id="cite_ref-PW_Picker_2010_1-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PW_Picker_2010-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Oxfordshire" title="Oxfordshire">Oxfordshire</a></td> <td data-sort-value="1400">15th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Frazer" title="Margaret Frazer">Margaret Frazer</a></td> <td><i>The Novice's Tale</i></td> <td>1992 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kathryn_Swinbrooke" class="mw-redirect" title="Kathryn Swinbrooke">Kathryn Swinbrooke</a></td> <td>England</td> <td data-sort-value="1400">15th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Paul_C._Doherty" title="Paul C. Doherty">Paul Doherty</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/A_Shrine_of_Murders" class="mw-redirect" title="A Shrine of Murders">A Shrine of Murders</a></i></td> <td>1993 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Acatl, High Priest of Mictlantecuhtli</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tenochtitlan" title="Tenochtitlan">Tenochtitlan</a></td> <td>1480</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Aliette_de_Bodard" title="Aliette de Bodard">Aliette de Bodard</a></td> <td><i>Obsidian Shards</i> (novella)</td> <td>2007 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Cesare Aldo</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Florence" title="Florence">Florence, Italy</a></td> <td data-sort-value="1500">1536</td> <td><a href="/wiki/David_Bishop_(writer)" title="David Bishop (writer)">D.V. bishop</a></td> <td><i>City of Vengeance</i></td> <td>2021 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Sigismondo</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Italian_Renaissance" title="Italian Renaissance">Italian Renaissance</a></td> <td data-sort-value="1500">15th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Eyre" title="Elizabeth Eyre">Elizabeth Eyre</a></td> <td><i>Death of the Duchess</i></td> <td>1991 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Roger_Shallot" class="mw-redirect" title="Roger Shallot">Sir Roger Shallot</a></td> <td>England</td> <td data-sort-value="1500">16th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Paul_C._Doherty" title="Paul C. Doherty">Paul Doherty</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_White_Rose_Murders" class="mw-redirect" title="The White Rose Murders">The White Rose Murders</a></i></td> <td>1991 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Segalla" class="mw-redirect" title="Nicholas Segalla">Nicholas Segalla</a></td> <td><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>England</li><li><a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Vienna" title="Vienna">Vienna</a></li></ul></div></td> <td data-sort-value="1558"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>1558</li><li>1567</li><li>1793</li><li>1889</li></ul></div></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Paul_C._Doherty" title="Paul C. Doherty">Paul Doherty</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/A_Time_for_the_Death_of_a_King" class="mw-redirect" title="A Time for the Death of a King">A Time for the Death of a King</a></i></td> <td>1994 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Shardlake" class="mw-redirect" title="Matthew Shardlake">Matthew Shardlake</a></td> <td>London</td> <td data-sort-value="1500">16th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/C._J._Sansom" title="C. J. Sansom">C. J. Sansom</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Dissolution_(Sansom_novel)" title="Dissolution (Sansom novel)">Dissolution</a></i></td> <td>2003 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bianca_Goddard&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bianca Goddard (page does not exist)">Bianca Goddard</a></td> <td>London</td> <td data-sort-value="1500">16th century</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mary_Lawrence_(writer)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mary Lawrence (writer) (page does not exist)">Mary Lawrence</a></td> <td><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Alchemist%27s_Daughter_(Lawrence_novel)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Alchemist's Daughter (Lawrence novel) (page does not exist)">The Alchemist's Daughter</a></i></td> <td>2015 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Giordano Bruno</td> <td>London</td> <td data-sort-value="1500">16th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Stephanie_Merritt" title="Stephanie Merritt">S. J. Parris</a></td> <td><i>Heresy</i></td> <td>2010 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Patricia_Finney" title="Patricia Finney">Sir Robert Carey</a></td> <td>Carlisle, then London</td> <td data-sort-value="1550">Late 16th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Patricia_Finney" title="Patricia Finney">Patricia Finney (writing as P F Chisholm)</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Patricia_Finney" title="Patricia Finney">A Famine of Horses</a></i></td> <td>1994 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Sano_Ichir%C5%8D" class="mw-redirect" title="Sano Ichirō">Sano Ichirō</a><sup id="cite_ref-WSJ_2010_2-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WSJ_2010-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Genroku" title="Genroku">Genroku</a>-era Japan</td> <td data-sort-value="1600">17th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Laura_Joh_Rowland" title="Laura Joh Rowland">Laura Joh Rowland</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Shinj%C5%AB_(novel)" title="Shinjū (novel)">Shinjū</a></i></td> <td>1994 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Chaloner_(character)" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Chaloner (character)">Thomas Chaloner</a></td> <td>England</td> <td data-sort-value="1600">17th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Susanna_Gregory" title="Susanna Gregory">Susanna Gregory</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/A_Conspiracy_of_Violence" class="mw-redirect" title="A Conspiracy of Violence">A Conspiracy of Violence</a></i></td> <td>2006 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Benjamin Weaver</td> <td>England</td> <td>1720</td> <td><a href="/wiki/David_Liss" title="David Liss">David Liss</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/A_Conspiracy_of_Paper" title="A Conspiracy of Paper">A Conspiracy of Paper</a></i></td> <td>2000 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Thomas_af_Boueberg" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas af Boueberg">Thomas af Boueberg</a></td> <td>Denmark-Norway</td> <td data-sort-value="1700">Early 18th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kurt_Aust" title="Kurt Aust">Kurt Aust</a></td> <td><i>Vredens dag (The Day of Wrath)</i></td> <td>1999 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Canaletto_(character)" class="mw-redirect" title="Canaletto (character)">Canaletto</a></td> <td>England</td> <td data-sort-value="1700">18th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Janet_Laurence" title="Janet Laurence">Janet Laurence</a></td> <td><i>Canaletto and the Case of Westminster Bridge</i></td> <td>1997 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Fielding" title="John Fielding">John Fielding</a></td> <td>England</td> <td data-sort-value="1700">18th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bruce_Alexander_Cook" title="Bruce Alexander Cook">Bruce Alexander Cook</a></td> <td><i> <a href="/wiki/Blind_Justice_(novel)" title="Blind Justice (novel)">Blind Justice</a></i></td> <td>1994 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Lord_John_Grey_(character)" title="Lord John Grey (character)">Lord John Grey</a></td> <td>England, <a href="/wiki/Prussia" title="Prussia">Prussia</a>,<br /><a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jamaica" title="Jamaica">Jamaica</a></td> <td>1756–1761</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Diana_Gabaldon" title="Diana Gabaldon">Diana Gabaldon</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Lord_John_and_the_Hellfire_Club" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord John and the Hellfire Club">Lord John and the Hellfire Club</a></i></td> <td>1998<sup id="cite_ref-LJ_note_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LJ_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Gabaldon_Grey_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gabaldon_Grey-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-EW_Devils_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EW_Devils-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Johnson" title="Samuel Johnson">Samuel Johnson</a>/<a href="/wiki/James_Boswell" title="James Boswell">James Boswell</a></td> <td>England</td> <td data-sort-value="1700">18th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lillian_de_la_Torre" title="Lillian de la Torre">Lillian de la Torre</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Great_Seal_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="The Great Seal of England">The Great Seal of England</a></i></td> <td>1943<sup id="cite_ref-DLT_obit_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DLT_obit-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-DLT_bio_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DLT_bio-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Dick_Darwent" class="mw-redirect" title="Dick Darwent">Dick Darwent</a></td> <td>England</td> <td>1815</td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Dickson_Carr" title="John Dickson Carr">John Dickson Carr</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Bride_of_Newgate" title="The Bride of Newgate">The Bride of Newgate</a></i></td> <td>1950<sup id="cite_ref-Carr_19-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carr-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Hawkwood" class="mw-redirect" title="Matthew Hawkwood">Matthew Hawkwood</a></td> <td>England</td> <td data-sort-value="1700">18th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/James_McGee_(author)" title="James McGee (author)">James McGee</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Trigger_Men" class="mw-redirect" title="Trigger Men">Trigger Men</a></i></td> <td>1985 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Sergeant_Cribb_(character)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sergeant Cribb (character)">Sergeant Cribb</a></td> <td>England</td> <td data-sort-value="1800">19th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Peter_Lovesey" title="Peter Lovesey">Peter Lovesey</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Wobble_to_Death" title="Wobble to Death">Wobble to Death</a></i></td> <td>1970 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Pitt_(fictional_character)" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Pitt (fictional character)">Thomas Pitt</a><sup id="cite_ref-PW_Picker_2010_1-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PW_Picker_2010-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td> <td>England</td> <td data-sort-value="1800">19th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Anne_Perry" title="Anne Perry">Anne Perry</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Cater_Street_Hangman" title="The Cater Street Hangman">The Cater Street Hangman</a></i></td> <td>1979 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/William_Monk" title="William Monk">William Monk</a><sup id="cite_ref-PW_Picker_2010_1-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PW_Picker_2010-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td> <td>England</td> <td data-sort-value="1800">19th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Anne_Perry" title="Anne Perry">Anne Perry</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Face_of_a_Stranger" class="mw-redirect" title="The Face of a Stranger">The Face of a Stranger</a></i></td> <td>1990 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mrs._Jeffries" class="mw-redirect" title="Mrs. Jeffries">Mrs. Jeffries</a></td> <td>England</td> <td data-sort-value="1800">19th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Emily_Brightwell" class="mw-redirect" title="Emily Brightwell">Emily Brightwell</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Inspector_and_Mrs._Jeffries" class="mw-redirect" title="The Inspector and Mrs. Jeffries">The Inspector and Mrs. Jeffries</a></i></td> <td>1993 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hanno_Stiffeniis" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanno Stiffeniis">Hanno Stiffeniis</a></td> <td>Prussia</td> <td data-sort-value="1800">Early 19th century</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Gregorio&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Michael Gregorio (page does not exist)">Michael Gregorio</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Critique_of_Criminal_Reason" title="Critique of Criminal Reason">Critique of Criminal Reason</a></i></td> <td>2006 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Blackstone" class="mw-redirect" title="Edmund Blackstone">Edmund Blackstone</a></td> <td>England</td> <td>1820s</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Richard_Falkirk" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Falkirk">Richard Falkirk</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Blackstone_(novel)" title="Blackstone (novel)">Blackstone</a></i></td> <td>1972 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_January" class="mw-redirect" title="Benjamin January">Benjamin January</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/New_Orleans" title="New Orleans">New Orleans</a></td> <td>1833</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Barbara_Hambly" title="Barbara Hambly">Barbara Hambly</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/A_Free_Man_of_Color_(Hambly_novel)" class="mw-redirect" title="A Free Man of Color (Hambly novel)">A Free Man of Color</a></i></td> <td>1997 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Yashim_the_Eunuch" class="mw-redirect" title="Yashim the Eunuch">Yashim the Eunuch</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Empire</a></td> <td>1836</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jason_Goodwin" title="Jason Goodwin">Jason Goodwin</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Janissary_Tree" title="The Janissary Tree">The Janissary Tree</a></i></td> <td>2006 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Uncle_Abner" class="mw-redirect" title="Uncle Abner">Uncle Abner</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/West_Virginia" title="West Virginia">West Virginia</a></td> <td data-sort-value="1850">Mid-19th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Melville_Davisson_Post" title="Melville Davisson Post">Melville Davisson Post</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Angel_of_the_Lord" class="mw-redirect" title="The Angel of the Lord">The Angel of the Lord</a></i></td> <td>1911<sup id="cite_ref-Abner_16-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Abner-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>The Dante Club</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a></td> <td>1865</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Pearl" title="Matthew Pearl">Matthew Pearl</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Dante_Club" title="The Dante Club">The Dante Club</a></i></td> <td>2003 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Erast_Fandorin" title="Erast Fandorin">Erast Fandorin</a></td> <td>Russia, Japan, etc.</td> <td>1876–1914</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Boris_Akunin" title="Boris Akunin">Boris Akunin</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Winter_Queen_(novel)" title="The Winter Queen (novel)">The Winter Queen</a></i></td> <td>1998 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Ambrose_Bierce_(character)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ambrose Bierce (character)">Ambrose Bierce</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a></td> <td data-sort-value="1860">Late 19th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Oakley_Hall" title="Oakley Hall">Oakley Hall</a></td> <td><i>Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades</i></td> <td>1998 </td></tr> <tr> <td>William Murdoch</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Toronto" title="Toronto">Toronto</a></td> <td>1890s</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Maureen_Jennings" title="Maureen Jennings">Maureen Jennings</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Except_the_Dying_(novel)" title="Except the Dying (novel)">Except the Dying</a></i></td> <td>1997 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Laszlo Kreisler</td> <td><a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York</a></td> <td>1896-97</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Caleb_Carr" title="Caleb Carr">Caleb Carr</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Alienist" title="The Alienist">The Alienist</a></i></td> <td>1994 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Sister_Pelagia" title="Sister Pelagia">Sister Pelagia</a></td> <td>Russia</td> <td>1890s / Early 20th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Boris_Akunin" title="Boris Akunin">Boris Akunin</a></td> <td><i>Pelagia and the White Bulldog</i></td> <td>2000 (Russian)<br />2006 (English) </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Amelia_Peabody" title="Amelia Peabody">Amelia Peabody</a><sup id="cite_ref-PW_Picker_2010_1-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PW_Picker_2010-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a></td> <td>1884–1923</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Peters" class="mw-redirect" title="Elizabeth Peters">Elizabeth Peters</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Crocodile_on_the_Sandbank" title="Crocodile on the Sandbank">Crocodile on the Sandbank</a></i></td> <td>1975 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Alexander_von_Reisden" title="Alexander von Reisden">Alexander von Reisden</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a></td> <td data-sort-value="1900">Early 20th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sarah_Smith_(writer)" title="Sarah Smith (writer)">Sarah Smith</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Vanished_Child" class="mw-redirect" title="The Vanished Child">The Vanished Child</a></i></td> <td>1992 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Max Liebermann and Oskar Reinhardt</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Vienna" title="Vienna">Vienna</a></td> <td data-sort-value="1900">Early 20th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Frank_Tallis" title="Frank Tallis">Frank Tallis</a></td> <td><i>Mortal Mischief (A Death in Vienna)</i></td> <td>2005 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Simon_Ziele" class="mw-redirect" title="Simon Ziele">Simon Ziele</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a></td> <td data-sort-value="1900">Early 20th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Stefanie_Pintoff" title="Stefanie Pintoff">Stefanie Pintoff</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/In_the_Shadow_of_Gotham" class="mw-redirect" title="In the Shadow of Gotham">In the Shadow of Gotham</a></i></td> <td>2009 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mary_Russell_(character)" title="Mary Russell (character)">Mary Russell</a></td> <td>Worldwide</td> <td data-sort-value="1900">Early 20th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Laurie_R._King" title="Laurie R. King">Laurie R. King</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Beekeeper%27s_Apprentice" title="The Beekeeper's Apprentice">The Beekeeper's Apprentice</a></i></td> <td>1994 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Isaac_Bell_(character)" class="mw-redirect" title="Isaac Bell (character)">Isaac Bell</a></td> <td>Worldwide</td> <td data-sort-value="1900">Early 20th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Clive_Cussler" title="Clive Cussler">Clive Cussler</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Chase_(Cussler_novel)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Chase (Cussler novel)">The Chase</a></i></td> <td>1994 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Joe_Sandilands" class="mw-redirect" title="Joe Sandilands">Joe Sandilands</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Colonial_India" title="Colonial India">Colonial India</a>, <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a></td> <td>1920s/1930s</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Barbara_Cleverly" title="Barbara Cleverly">Barbara Cleverly</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Last_Kashmiri_Rose" class="mw-redirect" title="The Last Kashmiri Rose">The Last Kashmiri Rose</a></i></td> <td>2007 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Sam Wyndham and Surendranath Bannerjee</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Calcutta" class="mw-redirect" title="Calcutta">Calcutta</a>, <a href="/wiki/British_Raj" title="British Raj">British Raj</a></td> <td>1920s</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Abir_Mukherjee" title="Abir Mukherjee">Abir Mukherjee</a></td> <td><i>A Rising Man</i></td> <td>2016 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Maisie_Dobbs" title="Maisie Dobbs">Maisie Dobbs</a></td> <td>England</td> <td>1929-1942</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jacqueline_Winspear" title="Jacqueline Winspear">Jacqueline Winspear</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Maisie_Dobbs" title="Maisie Dobbs">Maisie Dobbs</a></i></td> <td>2003 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Gereon Rath</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a></td> <td>1920s/1930s</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Volker_Kutscher" title="Volker Kutscher">Volker Kutscher</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Babylon_Berlin" title="Babylon Berlin">Babylon Berlin</a></i> <i>(Der nasse fisch)</i></td> <td>2008 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Bernie Günther<sup id="cite_ref-PW_Picker_2010_1-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PW_Picker_2010-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a></td> <td>1934–1954</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Philip_Kerr" title="Philip Kerr">Philip Kerr</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/March_Violets" title="March Violets">March Violets</a></i></td> <td>1989 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Laetitia_Talbot" class="mw-redirect" title="Laetitia Talbot">Laetitia Talbot</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Crete" title="Crete">Crete</a>, <a href="/wiki/Burgundy" title="Burgundy">Burgundy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Athens" title="Athens">Athens</a></td> <td>1920s</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Barbara_Cleverly" title="Barbara Cleverly">Barbara Cleverly</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Tomb_of_Zeus" class="mw-redirect" title="The Tomb of Zeus">The Tomb of Zeus</a></i></td> <td>2007 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Phryne_Fisher" title="Phryne Fisher">Phryne Fisher</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Melbourne" title="Melbourne">Melbourne</a></td> <td>1920s</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kerry_Greenwood" title="Kerry Greenwood">Kerry Greenwood</a></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Cocaine_Blues_(novel)" title="Cocaine Blues (novel)">Cocaine Blues</a></i></td> <td>1989 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Professor John Stableford</td> <td>England</td> <td>1930s</td> <td><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Reef" class="extiw" title="de:Rob Reef">Rob Reef</a></td> <td><i>Stableford on Golf</i></td> <td>2013 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Lady Georgiana</td> <td>England/Scotland</td> <td>1930s</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Rhys_Bowen" class="mw-redirect" title="Rhys Bowen">Rhys Bowen</a></td> <td><i>Her Royal Spyness</i></td> <td>2007 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Alexei Korolev</td> <td>Moscow</td> <td>1936</td> <td>William Ryan</td> <td><i>The Holy Thief</i></td> <td>2010 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Toby Peters</td> <td>Los Angeles</td> <td>1940s</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Stuart_M._Kaminsky" title="Stuart M. 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London: Robinson Publishing. p. 3. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-85487-406-3" title="Special:BookSources/1-85487-406-3"><bdi>1-85487-406-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Mammoth+Book+of+Historical+Detectives&rft.place=London&rft.pages=3&rft.pub=Robinson+Publishing&rft.date=1995&rft.isbn=1-85487-406-3&rft.aulast=Ashley&rft.aufirst=Mike&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+mystery" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-LJ_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-LJ_note_24-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-LJ_note_24-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Lord John first appears in Gabaldon's <i><a href="/wiki/Dragonfly_in_Amber" title="Dragonfly in Amber">Dragonfly in Amber</a></i> (1992), but the 1998 novella <i><a href="/wiki/Lord_John_and_the_Hellfire_Club" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord John and the Hellfire Club">Lord John and the Hellfire Club</a></i> is the character's first appearance as a detective.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Gabaldon_Grey-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Gabaldon_Grey_25-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Gabaldon_Grey_25-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131012004959/http://www.dianagabaldon.com/books/lord-john-grey/">"Official site: Lord John Grey Series"</a>. <i>DianaGabaldon.com</i>. 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