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10 best books like The Bohemian Girl (Kenneth M. Cameron): The Clouds Beneath the Sun, The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street, White Corridor, The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime, Night Watch: A Long-Lost Adventure in Which Sherlock Holmes Meets Father Brown, Devoured, The Minutes of the Lazarus Club, Sherlock Holmes and the King's Evil: And Other New Tales Featuring the World's Greatest Detective, What Alice Knew: A Most Curious Tale of Henry James & Jack the Ripper, Jane and the Madness of Lord Byron

The Clouds Beneath the Sun
AuthorMackenzie Ford
ISBN0385529112
An exotic setting and a passionate, forbidden affair make The Clouds Beneath the Sun an irresistible page-turner that is sure to satisfy readers looking for an intelligent blend of history, romance, and intrigue.

Mackenzie Ford (a nom de plume) was introduced to readers in 2009 with the publication...
The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street
AuthorCharles Nicholl
ISBN0670018503
A brilliantly drawn detective story with entirely new insights into Shakespeare's life

In 1612, William Shakespeare gave evidence in a court case at Westminster and it is the only occasion on which his actual spoken words were recorded. The case seems routine a dispute over an unpaid marriage...
White Corridor
AuthorChristopher Fowler
ISBN0553804502
From using crackpot psychics to cutting-edge forensics, Arthur Bryant and John May are famous for their maddeningly unorthodox approach to solving crimes that the ordinary police cannot. Now Christopher Fowler, “a new master of the classical detective story,”* brings back crime detection’s...
The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime
AuthorMichael Sims
ISBN0143105663
Take a trip back to a time when criminals armed themselves with wit rather than with guns, and the pinnacle of crime-fighting technology was represented by Sherlock Holmes's magnifying glass. Edited by award-winning author and editor Michael Sims, The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime presents, for...
Night Watch: A Long-Lost Adventure in Which Sherlock Holmes Meets Father Brown
AuthorStephen Kendrick
ISBN0375403671
In this brilliantly crafted pastiche, Stephen Kendrick brings Sherlock Holmes and Father Brown together in an unprecedented collaboration on a singularly shocking murder case.

It is Christmas Day, 1902, and a priest’s mutilated body has been found in a London church that is hosting a...
Devoured
AuthorD.E. Meredith
One of London's first forensic detectives chases a grisly killer in this stunning debut mystery rich in period detail and sinister intrigue.

London in 1856 is gripped by a frightening obsession. The specimen-collecting craze is growing, and discoveries in far-off jungles are reshaping...
The Minutes of the Lazarus Club
AuthorTony Pollard
ISBN0718154037
London, 1857—the Lazarus Club. Some of the finest, most unconventional minds in Victorian Britain—including Charles Darwin, Charles Babbage and Isambard Kingdom Brunel—are members of this illustrious brotherhood. Their meetings take place behind closed doors, their discussions are...
Sherlock Holmes and the King's Evil: And Other New Tales Featuring the World's Greatest Detective
AuthorDonald Serrell Thomas
ISBN1605980439
In these five tales, Sherlock Holmes is shown at the height of his powers: he co-operates with a young Winston Churchill in the famed Siege of Sydney Street; helps defeat a plan for a German invasion outlined in the Zimmerman Telegram; establishes a link between two missing light-house keepers and the...
What Alice Knew: A Most Curious Tale of Henry James & Jack the Ripper
AuthorPaula Marantz Cohen
ISBN1402243553
An invalid for most her life, Alice James is quite used to people underestimating her. And she generally doesn't mind. But this time she is not about to let things alone. Yes, her brother Henry may be a famous author, and her other brother William a rising star in the new field of psychology. But when they...
Jane and the Madness of Lord Byron
AuthorStephanie Barron
ISBN0553386700
The restorative power of the ocean brings Jane Austen and her beloved brother Henry, to Brighton after Henry’s wife is lost to a long illness. But the crowded, glittering resort is far from peaceful, especially when the lifeless body of a beautiful young society miss is discovered in the bedchamber...
The Notorious Scoundrel
AuthorAlexandra Benedict
ISBN0061689327
Like an irresistible siren, the veiled dancer with the bewitching green eyes lures dukes and earls down into London's underworld to see her dance--and succumb to her spell. Some say she's a princess, but only one man knows her darkest secret.

She is Amy Peel, an orphan from the city's rookeries,...
The Knocker on Death's Door
AuthorEllis Peters
ISBN0446400165
The knocker hung on a very special door - oak, heavy, with a late-Gothic arch, and apparently a late-Gothic curse. Then the door was moved from an old house, once an abbey, to the village church. Legend held that sinners who seized the knocker had their hands burned by the cold iron. But Gerry Bracewell...
The Fifth Servant
AuthorK.J.A. Wishnia
ISBN0061725374
“Whatever you are currently reading, I promise you it is not nearly as intelligent, witty, compelling, or entertaining as The Fifth Servant….Wishnia makes history come alive.”
 — David Liss, author of The Devil's Company

 

A brilliantly imagined, beautifully...
Super
AuthorJim Lehrer
ISBN1400067634
In the tradition of Murder on the Orient Express, Jim Lehrer brings together a cast of characters as fascinating as the historic train that will carry them from Chicago to Los Angeles. In its heyday, the Santa Fe railroad’s famous Super Chief was so replete with wealth and celebrity that it became known...
When Last I Died
AuthorGladys Mitchell
ISBN0915230852
Mrs. Bradley has dealt with murderers before, but she has always dealt with them as a professional psychologist--coolly, scientifically, almost flippantly. Now, however, the brilliant old lady is fiercely determined to bring a cruel and ruthless murderer to bay. Various members of the Bradley...
Murder for Christ's Mass
AuthorMaureen Ash
ISBN0425231577
Templer Knight Mystery Book #4

December 1201 AD. The town of Lincoln and the occupants of the castle are getting ready to celebrate the holidays with the influx of guests and visitors that has them bursting at the seems. Amid all of this a body is found by a stonemason with evidence indicating...
The Marx Sisters
AuthorBarry Maitland
ISBN0140291768
Detective Kathy Kolla's first case is one for the books. Meredith Winterbottom, a resident of Jerusalem Lane--a quaint section of London inhabited by Eastern European immigrants--and a great-granddaughter of Karl Marx, is found dead. Was she the victim of greedy real-estate developers, or was...
The Tale of Oat Cake Crag
AuthorSusan Wittig Albert
ISBN0425236617
The latest tale in the "charming" (Publishers Weekly) Beatrix Potter series!

In the Lake District, noisy test flights of the new hydroplane are disrupting life in the village of Near Sawrey. Miss Beatrix Potter can barely hear herself think-which she needs to do for the new case she's just...
The Master of Rain: A Suspense Thriller
AuthorTom Bradby
ISBN0375713336
Shanghai, 1926: a sultry city lousy with opium, warlords, and corruption at the highest levels. Into this steamy morass walks Richard Field, an idealistic Brit haunted by his past and recently appointed to the international police. He's not there long before called to the flat of a Russian prostitute,...
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