Historical Mystery Series - A Sampling of Epistolary Novels

Alexander, Bruce
Sir John Fielding, blind magistrate, 1700’s London

Barron, Stephanie
Jane Austen, Regency England

Buckley, Fiona
Ursula Blanchard, lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth I

Carr, Caleb
John Schuyler Moore, journalist, turn-of-the-century NY

Chisholm, P. F.
Sir Robert Carey, 16th century English nobleman

Cleverly, Barbara
Joe Sandilands, Scotland Yard detective, post WWI India

Collins, Max Allan
Nate Heller, P.I., 1930’s-40’s America

Dams, Jeanne
Hilda Johansson, housemaid, turn-of-century Indiana

Day, Dianne
Fremont Jones, independent woman, early 1900’s San Francisco

Davis, Lindsey
Marcus Didius Falco, emperor’s “informer”, 1st century Rome

Doherty, P. C.
Amerotke, chief judge, 15th century Egypt

Dunn, Carola
Daisy Dalrymple, journalist, 1920’s England

Emerson, Kathy Lynn
Susanna Appleton, herbalist noblewoman, Elizabethan England

Frazer, Margaret
Sister Frevisse, medieval nun, Oxfordshire, England

Gooden, Philip
Shakespearean actor Nick Revill, 16th century England

Grace, C. L.
Kathryn Seinbrooke, physician, 15th century England

Grayson, Richard
Inspector Gautier, turn-of-century Paris

Greenwood, Kerry
Phryne Fisher, 1920’s Melbourne, Australia

Greer, Robert O.
C.J. Floyd, P.I., 1950’s Denver

Gregory, Susanna
Matthew Bartholomew, forensic sleuth, 14th century England

Hambly, Barbara
Ben January, free black man, 1830’s New Orleans

Harper, Karen
Dame Frevisse, nun, 15th century, and Elizabeth I, 16th century England

Holland, David
Reverend Tuckworth, Victorian England

Hunter, Stephen
Earl Swagger, cop, 1950’s Arkansas

Kaminsky, Stuart
Toby Peters, P.I., 1940’s Hollywood

King, Laurie
Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, 1920’s England

Lake, Deryn
John Rawlings, apothecary, 18th century England

Limon, Martin
Ernie Bascom and George Sueno, army investigators, 1970’s S. Korea

Linscott, Gillian
Nell Bray, suffragette, turn-of-century London

Lock, Joan
Inspector Best, Victorian England

Lovesey, Peter
Prince of Wales, late 1800’s England and France

Mayer, Eric/Mary Reed
John the Eunuch, 537 A.D. Constantinople

Monfredo, Miriam
Glynis Tryon, librarian, 19th century Seneca Falls, NY

Mosley, Walter
Easy Rawlins, detective, 1950’s -60’s Los Angeles

Nelscott, Kris
Smokey Dalton, black P.I., 1968-69 Chicago

Newman, Sharan
Catherine LeVendeur, 12th century Europe

Paige, Robin
Kathryn Ardleigh, American author, and Sir Charles Sheridan, amateur scientist, Victorian England

Penman, Sharon Kay
Justin de Quincy, bastard son of a bishop, 12th century England

Perry, Anne
Thomas & Charlotte Pitt, police inspector and wife, Victorian London, also William Monk, police inspector, Victorian London

Pearce, Michael
Capt. Gareth Owen, Cairo secret police, early 1900’s Egypt

Peters, Elizabeth
Amelia Peabody, Victorian Egyptologist

Peters, Ellis
Brother Cadfael, 12th century monk and herbalist, England

Robb, Candace
Owen Archer, agent for King Edward III, 14th century England

Robinson, Lynda S.
Lord Meren, chief investigator for Pharaoh Tutankhamun, 14th century B.C. Egypt

Roosevelt, Elliott
1930’s and 40’s Washington, D.C.

Ross, Kate
Julian Kestrel, dandy-about-town, 1820’s London

Rowland, Laura Joh
Sano Ichiro, samurai and P.I., 1600’s Japan

Saylor, Steven
Gordianus the Finder, detective, 1st century, B.C. Rome\

Sedley, Kate
Roger the Chapman, peddler, 15th century England

Skinner, Robert
Wesley Farrell, nightclub owner, 1930’s New Orleans

Tallman, Shirley
Sarah Woolson, lawyer, 1800’s San Francisco

Thompson, Victoria
Midwife Sarah Brandt and detective Sergeant Frank Malloy, 1900’s NY

Todd, Charles
Ian Rutledge, Scotland Yard, 1919 England

Tremayne, Peter
Sister Fidelma, nun, 7th century Ireland

Trow, M. J.
Inspector Lestrade, Scotland Yard, early 1900’s

Van Gulik, Robert
Judge Dee, 7th century China

Winspear, Jacqueline
Maisie Dobbs, intuitive P.I., 1930’s England

Wishart, David
Marcus Corvinus, detective, 64 B.C.-8 A.D. Rome

Wynn, Patricia
Blue Satan, a.k.a. Viscount St. Mars, 18th century England