Created by Bridget Walsh In The Tumbling Girl (2024), it's London, England, Queen Victoria is definitely in charge, and spunky, head-strong Former magician's assistsant Minnie Ward is hard at work writing scripts for the Variety Palace Music Hall, when her best friend is found murdered, and the Metropolitan Police, such as they are, don't seem … Continue reading Albert Easterbrook
Tag: Historical 1900s
Valentin St. Cyr
Created by David Fulmer Creole detective VALENTIN ST. CYR works the carnival world of 1907 Storyville, New Orleans. In this notorious red-light district, "sporting" girls ply the trade in mansion parlors and dime-a-trick cribs, cocaine and opium are sold over the counter, rye whiskey flows like an amber river, and the nights echo with a … Continue reading Valentin St. Cyr
Hanns Gross & Karl Werthen
Created by J. Sydney Jones Real-life criminalogist HANNS GROSS and fictional attorney/private investigator KARL WERTHEN are the heroes of a series of intricately plotted historical mysteries by author J. Sydney Jones set in turn-of-the-century Vienna. Often referred to as "the father of criminology," Doktor Hanns Gustav Adolf Gross (1847-1915) was an Austrian criminal jurist and examining magistrate who … Continue reading Hanns Gross & Karl Werthen
Jim Stringer
Created by Andrew Martin A train man to the core, JIM STRINGER finally becomes an official "private eye" (after acting as an amateur sleuth in his first two adventures) when he's given the title of railroad detective for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in The Lost Luggage Porter (2008), the third book in this entertaining … Continue reading Jim Stringer
Harry Lawton
Created by Matthew Carr It's the summer of 1909, and Caruso-loving London private investigator HARRY LAWTON is hired by the widow of English explorer Randolph Foulkes, the victim of a terrorist bomb that blew him to bits while he was doing the tourist thing, sitting in a Barcelona cafe. It seems the dearly departed left a … Continue reading Harry Lawton
Molly Murphy
Created by Rhys Bowen Pseudonym of Janet Quin-Harkin (1941 —) It's the early 1900s in New York City, and Irish immigrant MOLLY MURPHY, fresh off the boat, is just trying to get along. In her debut, the Agatha Award-winning Murphy's Law (2001), the slim redhead tumbles from one jam to another, with "a brogue as … Continue reading Molly Murphy