1930s
The Great Depression is settling in and war is on the horizon, but the classic detective stories were being created to give us hope.
The Amory Ames Mysteries (Ashley Weaver) Amory Ames, a wealthy young woman questioning her marriage to her notoriously charming playboy husband, Milo, is looking for a change.
The Amy Rowlings Mysteries (T. A. Belshaw) England, 1939. The residents of the snow-covered streets of a small Kentish town awake to horrific news. When young Amy Rowlings meets Detective Sergeant Bodkin at the scene of a robbery she is blissfully unaware of how much her life is about to change.
The Berkshires Mysteries (Andrea Kress) Massachusetts, 1931. Nurse Aggie Burnside moves to her best friend’s hometown. The small town turns out to be less than a quiet community as Aggie becomes entangled in solving a series of murders.
The Berlin Murders (Sean McLachlan)
The Bertie Carroll Mysteries (Jamie West)
The Canary House Mysteries (Julie Mathison)
The Christmas Mysteries (Ada Moncrieff) Christmas 1938. The Westbury family and assorted friends have gathered together for another legendary Christmas at their Sussex mansion. As family tensions simmer on Christmas Eve, the champagne flows and the silver sparkles.
The Circus of Unusual Creatures (Tammie Painter) Duncan — aka “Brutus Fangwrath, Deadliest Dragon in the West” — wakes one morning to find his best friend isn’t just sleeping off a hangover. He’s been murdered.
The Crown Colony Mysteries (Ovidia Yu) Singapore, 1936. When the Irish nanny looking after Acting Governor Palin’s daughter dies suddenly, and in mysterious circumstances, local girl Su Lin is invited to take her place.
The Dame Alice Mysteries (Allie Mahoney)
The Darling Dahlias Mysteries (Susan Wittig Albert) When local blond bombshell Bunny Scott is found in a suspicious car wreck, the garden club of Darling, Alabama, the Darling Dahlias, decide to dig into the town’s buried secrets, and club members Lizzy, Ophelia, and Verna soon find leads sprouting up faster than weeds.
The Deadly Mysteries (Kate Parker) London, 1937. Olivia Denis is the carefree young wife of a Foreign Office dignitary when her world is shattered. Police discover her husband fatally shot near the German embassy and declare it suicide. Olivia knows better.
The Edith Horton Mysteries (Noreen Wainwright) Set in 1931, Edith Horton is a former VAD who finds herself not only struggling with her inner demons, but with the presence of evil in her village in the Yorkshire Dales.
The Florence Norris Mysteries (Dorothy Cannell) In its three-hundred-year history, there has never once been a scandal at Mullings, ancestral home of the decent but dull Stodmarsh family. Until, that is, Edward Stodmarsh makes an ill-advised second marriage to the scheming Regina Stapleton.
The Grace & Favor Mysteries (Jill Churchill) The crash of 1929 has ended the party for high-living New Yorkers Lily Brewster and her brother Robert. Rescue arrives in the form of their recently deceased great-uncle Horatio who bequeaths to them Grace and Favor “Cottage” which is really a great sprawling mansion.
The Higgins & Hawke Mysteries (Lee Strauss) Dr. Haley Higgins, the city pathologist’s assistant, and Samantha Hawke, investigative reporter, team together to solve murders in Boston.
The Inspector Boyle Mysteries (J. H. Roche) England, Late 1931. Lord Avery’s death brings his family back to Oakford Court, a large manor house estate in the small village of Oakford, Devon. His dying wish was that the ancestral home remains in the family.
The Inspector de Silva Mysteries (Harriet Steel) Set in the 1930s among the tea plantations of Ceylon, Inspector Shanti de Silva is not finding life in his new post in the sleepy town of Nuala as restful as he had hoped.
The Jack and Frances Mysteries (Carmen Radtke)
The Lady Rample Mysteries (Shea MacLeod)
The Lillian Frost & Edith Head Mysteries (Renee Patrick) Los Angeles, 1937. Lillian Frost has traded dreams of stardom for security as a department store salesgirl . . . until she discovers she’s a suspect in the murder of her former roommate.
The Lisette Darling Mysteries (Colette Clark) Hollywood, 1934. It’s New Year’s Eve, the dawn of the Golden Age of Hollywood movies. Lisette Darling finds herself ringing in the new year with the biggest and brightest stars in the Hollywood Hills.
The Maggie Fitzmorris Forensic Mysteries (Norah Winter)
The Massachusetts Mysteries (Andrea Kress) Boston, 1933. Amanda Burnside yearns for more. But she wasn’t expecting a stroll on Boston Common with her beau to end with the discovery of a dead body.
The Miss Underhay Mysteries (Helena Dixon) June 1933. Kitty Underhay is a modern, independent woman from the top of her shingle bob to the tip of her t-strap heels. She prides herself on the reputation of her family’s ancient hotel on the blustery English coast.
The Mr. and Mrs. North Mysteries (Frances and Richard Lockridge)
The Mrs. Morley Mysteries (Laura Walker) Mrs Rita Morley is the widow of an ex-police inspector and is a dab hand at sleuthing herself, picking up many tips from her husband when he was alive as they used to work on cases together. She also has a lot of high-up connections in the police force, including inspector Hadley of Scotland yard with whom she has worked closely in the past.
Murder Most British (P. B. Kolleri)
The Murder, She Reported Mysteries (Peg Cochran) Manhattan, 1938. Tired of being trapped in the gilded cage of her family’s expectations, Elizabeth Adams has done what no self-respecting socialite would think to do: She’s gotten herself a job.
The Phyllida Bright Mysteries (Colleen Cambridge) When a dead body is found during a house party at the home of Agatha Christie and her husband Max Mallowan, it’s up to the famous author’s head of household, Phyllida Bright, to investigate.
The Poison Ink Mysteries (Beth Byers) July 1936. When Georgette Dorothy Marsh’s dividends fall along with the banks, she decides to write a book. The problem is that she has so little imagination she uses her neighbors for inspiration.
The Reverend Shaw Mysteries (Hugh Morrison) England, 1930. An antiques dealer is found robbed and murdered in a train compartment on a remote branch line. A passenger on the train, the Reverend Lucian Shaw, country parson and former army chaplain, is concerned that the police have the wrong man.
The Rose Simpson Mysteries (Margaret Addison) When Sir William and Lady Withers invite friends and family to a weekend house party at their country home, Ashgrove House, they are faced with the arrival of both invited and uninvited guests, the consequence of which is murder.
The Royal Spyness Mysteries (Rhys Bowen) London, 1932. Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, 34th in line for the English throne, is flat broke. She’s bolted Scotland, her greedy brother, and her fish-faced betrothed. London is a place where she’ll experience freedom.
The Ruby Dove Mysteries (Rose Donovan) Christmas, 1934. The snow lies heavy around Pauncefort Hall. Fashion-spy-amateur sleuth heroes Ruby and Fina are on a mission to avenge Ruby’s family and bring down an empire.
The Texas Towns Mysteries (Carolyn Lis)