Historical Whodunits Author:Mike Ashley (Editor) "Historical Whodunits" -- the first anthology of historical detective stories to appear in print -- brilliantly represents this relatively rare type of literature. Here are twenty-three stories, with an astounding variety of settings ranging from Egypt in the fourteenth century B.C. to the Yukon circa 1900. The detectives include an an... more »cient Egyptian sage, whose case involves not a locked room but a locked tomb; a Roman slave, whose investigation of a treasury theft leads him to a very high personage; the perspicacious twelfth-century monk Brother Cadfael, author Ellis Peters's greatest creation; William Shakespeare, hot on the trail of the murderer of Christopher Marlowe; Samuel Johnson, with Boswell as his Doctor Watson; C. Auguste Dupin, in a new adventure and still at his favorite recreation of showing up the prefect of the Paris police just as he unfailingly did in the original stories of Poe; and Sherlock Holmes, in a story of the son of Arthur Conan Doyle.
The locked tomb mystery / Elizabeth Peters --
The thief versus King Rhampsinitus / Herodotus --
Socrates solves a murder / Breni James --
Mightier than the sword / John Maddox Roberts --
The treasury thefts / Wallace Nichols --
A Byzantine mystery / Mary Reed and Eric Mayer --
He came with the rain / Robert van Gulik --
The high king's sword / Peter Tremayne --
The price of light / Ellis Peters --
The confession of Brother Athelstan / Paul Harding --
The witch's tale / Margaret Frazer --
Father Hugh and the deadly scythe / Mary Monica Pulver --
Leonardo Da Vinci, detective / Theodore Mathieson --
A sad and bloody hour / Joe Gores --
The Christmas masque / S.S. Rafferty --
Murder lock'd in / Lillian de la Torre --
Captain Nash and the wroth inheritance / Raymond Butler --
The Doomdorf mystery / Melville Davisson Post --
Murder in the Rue Royale / Michael Harrison --
The gentleman from Paris / John Dickson Carr --
The golden nugget poker game / Edward D. Hoch --
The case of the Deptford horror / Arthur Conan Doyle --