Results for "Marsh" in Historical

When Sheriff Zachariah Fitch hears about a corpse found inside the wall of Maltby le Marsh Abbey, he wants nothing to do with the investigation since that is where his estranged sister resides as a nun. But with the local constable asking for his help, and Lady Vivienne accepting the case for them, he quickly finds himself not only working on a murder, but having to face his ghosts of the past involving his sister.

Sadie Snow was excited to qualify as a Pinkerton agent, but now her first official case has put her own life and the lives of the family she's supposed to be protecting in danger. On the serene St. John’s River in the wilds of 1865 Florida, Sadie is on her first official job as a lady Pinkerton agent, tasked with protecting a wealthy family in a small town in the middle of nowhere. The former actress is determined to prove herself as a capable investigator. She is skilled in self-defense and has a sharp mind, but her inexperience may prove to be her downfall.

Cambridgeshire, September 1813: Detective Stephen Lavender and Constable Ned Woods are lured to an isolated estate in the deadly marshland surrounding Ely, to investigate a murder.

New Zealand, 1882. When Constable Foster catches a young, blond boy who runs with a gang of Maori boys, he discovers he speaks only Maori, even though he is clearly Scandinavian. Inspector Scully, busy with a body that has recently been discovered in the marshes of the lagoon north of Napier, asks James Hardy to investigate. The trail leads back to the Seventy Mile Bush, where a broken family shows no interest in a missing child. But will it also lead back to the body in the swamp?

A Victorian historical mystery set in 1899 Oxford, A Studious Heiress follows Isabella Hartwell, a Gilded Age American heiress whose sharp mind and impertinent curiosity draw her into murder, academic ambition, and a dangerous university scandal. Isabella Hartwell has crossed paths with English...

He writes his own case notes. He just doesn’t call them that. London, 1888. Dr. John Carrow keeps a Mile End Road practice above a chemist’s shop and a pocket-book containing the names of patients he has failed to save. As women begin dying in Whitechapel and the newspapers reach for a name for their killer, Carrow begins writing something else: rules. Rules about mercy. Restraint. Selection. Procedure. Rules he tells himself prove he is still in control.

This annual anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a short novel by Christianna Brand. Mystery stories have been around for centuries—there are whodunits, whydunits and howdunits...

Sixteen-year-old Bridey Corkill longs to leave her small island and see the world; the farther from the sea, the better. When Bridey was young, she witnessed something lure her granddad off a cliff and into a watery grave with a smile on his face. Now, in 1913, those haunting memories are dredged to the surface when a young woman is found drowned on the beach. Bridey suspects that whatever compelled her Granddad to leap has made its return to the Isle of Man. Soon, people in Bridey’s idyllic village begin vanishing, and she finds an injured boy on the shore.

Rickie Alleyn, son of the famed detective Roderick Alleyn had taken to the peaceful Channel Island village of Deep Cove to write his book. However, soon enough the tedium of provincial life threatens to send him packing until, that is, he finds a dead stablehand and sleepy community's world is upturned. His father is called to take proceedings into hand, but as a darker side to island life emerges, one of illegal drugs and smuggling, Rickie goes missing. Will Ngaio Marsh's stalwart detective be able to find his son in time?

Having discovered the location of Brian Teplow, Russian anthropologist Anna Rykov, doctor Harry Lamb, and Father Sean O’Malley travel to a secluded asylum to collect him. But things are not so simple, and Anna must travel to the land of Teplow’s imagination to rescue him, where she finds a different world from the one suggested in the Missing Medium's journals.