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Historical Mystery Series - A Sampling of Epistolary Novels

 
  • Peter Lovesey
    Prince of Wales, late 1800’s England and France
  • Eric Mayer
    John the Eunuch, 537 A.D. Constantinople
  • Miriam Monfredo
    Glynis Tryon, librarian, 19th century Seneca Falls, NY
  • Walter Mosley
    Easy Rawlins, detective, 1950’s -60’s Los Angeles
  • Kris Nelscott
    Smokey Dalton, black P.I., 1968-69 Chicago
  • Sharan Newman
    Catherine LeVendeur, 12th century Europe
  • Robin Paige
    Kathryn Ardleigh, American author, and Sir Charles Sheridan, amateur scientist, Victorian England
  • Sharon Kay Penman
    Justin de Quincy, bastard son of a bishop, 12th century England
  • Anne Perry
    Thomas & Charlotte Pitt, police inspector and wife, Victorian London, also William Monk, police inspector, Victorian London
  • Michael Pearce
    Capt. Gareth Owen, Cairo secret police, early 1900’s Egypt
  • Elizabeth Peters
    Amelia Peabody, Victorian Egyptologist
  • Ellis Peters
    Brother Cadfael, 12th century monk and herbalist, England
  • Candace Robb
    Owen Archer, agent for King Edward III, 14th century England
  • Lynda S. Robinson
    Lord Meren, chief investigator for Pharaoh Tutankhamun, 14th century B.C. Egypt
  • Elliott Roosevelt
    1930’s and 40’s Washington, D.C.
  • Kate Ross
    Julian Kestrel, dandy-about-town, 1820’s London
  • Laura Joh Rowland
    Sano Ichiro, samurai and P.I., 1600’s Japan
  • Steven Saylor
    Gordianus the Finder, detective, 1st century, B.C. Rome\
  • Kate Sedley
    Roger the Chapman, peddler, 15th century England
  • Robert Skinner
    Wesley Farrell, nightclub owner, 1930’s New Orleans
  • Shirley Tallman
    Sarah Woolson, lawyer, 1800’s San Francisco
  • Victoria Thompson
    Midwife Sarah Brandt and detective Sergeant Frank Malloy, 1900’s NY
  • Charles Todd
    Ian Rutledge, Scotland Yard, 1919 England
  • Peter Tremayne
    Sister Fidelma, nun, 7th century Ireland
  • M. J. Trow
    Inspector Lestrade, Scotland Yard, early 1900’s
  • Robert Van Gulik
    Judge Dee, 7th century China
  • Jacqueline Winspear
    Maisie Dobbs, intuitive P.I., 1930’s England
  • David Wishart
    Marcus Corvinus, detective, 64 B.C.-8 A.D. Rome
  • Patricia Wynn
    Blue Satan, a.k.a. Viscount St. Mars, 18th century England