Historical crime fiction

Mask of the Verdoy by Phil Lecomber

By DavidPrestidge

28 October, 2014

George Harley is a decorated veteran of World War I who worked for British intelligence post 1918. Now he is scratching out a living as a private investigator in 1930s London, steering a hazardous course between the criminal underworld and the Metropolitan Police, neither of…

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Interview: Steven Saylor

By Keith Nixon

19 October, 2014

Steven Saylor is the author of the highly successful Roma Sub Rosa series of historical fiction novels set in Republican Rome at the time of some of the largest figures in ancient history – Cicero, Julius Caesar, Pompey and Crassus. The protagonist is Gordianus, who is…

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A Madras Miasma

By crimefictionlover

10 October, 2014

Set in the eponymous Indian city just after World War I, the green shoots of India’s desire for independence are pushing through. Superintendent Christian Le Fanu is in self-imposed exile from England, and is summoned to investigate when the body of a white woman is…

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Raiders of the Nile by Steven Saylor

By Keith Nixon

2 October, 2014

88BC, and a 22-year-old Gordianus, fresh from his voyage to see the seven wonders of the world, has left his hometown of Rome far behind and now lives in Alexandria. He is with his slave and lover, the beautiful Bethesda. Trouble is brewing in Alexandria…

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The Iron Sickle by Martin Limon

By RoughJustice

23 September, 2014

Martin Limon served his country for 20 years, and over the course of nine novels (including this one) and one short story collection has chronicled the experiences of the 8th US Army in South Korea following the war there. Crucial to the series’ success has…

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Gods of Gold by Chris Nickson

By DavidPrestidge

30 August, 2014

In the Yorkshire city of Leeds, there is a massive gulf between the rich and the poor. It is 1890, and the rich industrialists are getting richer beyond their wildest dreams. The chimneys belch out smoke but the grime turns to gold for the factory…

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A Madras Miasma by Brian Stoddart

By DavidPrestidge

24 August, 2014

The setting is 1920, in the teeming city of Madras (present day Chennai) on the south eastern coast of India. Superintendent Christian Le Fanu of the Indian Police Service has been called to the banks of a filthy city canal which is, in reality, little…

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Hardcastle's Quartet by Graham Ison

By DavidPrestidge

13 August, 2014

It’s the summer of 1918 and people are tired of a war which was supposed to over by Christmas four years earlier. On the Western Front, the Germans are finally on the back foot, but in London the war against crime still goes on. Divisional…

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Mask of the Verdoy by Phil Lecomber

Interview: Steven Saylor

A Madras Miasma

Raiders of the Nile by Steven Saylor

The Iron Sickle by Martin Limon

Gods of Gold by Chris Nickson

A Madras Miasma by Brian Stoddart

Hardcastle's Quartet by Graham Ison

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