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1800s
Regency (1811-1820)
Victorian (1837-1901)
Mary Jo Adamson
  • Michael Merrick: newspaperman in 1840s Boston, Massachusett

Boris Akunin
  • Erast Fandorin: sleuth in 19th century St. Petersburg, Russia
  • Sister Pelagia: nun in a province beyond the Volga, in 19th century Russia

Lawrence Alexander
  • Theodore Roosevelt: the Police Commissioner in 1890s New York City

Tasha Alexander
  • Lady Emily Ashton: young and recently widowed, in Victorian London, England

Val Andrews
  • Sherlock Holmes: sleuth based in London, England

T.F. Banks
  • Henry Morton: in Regency London, England, in the Memoirs of a Bow Street Runner series

Stephanie Barron (Francine Mathews)
  • Jane Austen: famous author in England

Carrie Bebris
  • Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy: taking up the story ended in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, in Regency (early 1800s) England

Jack Bickham
  • Charity Ross: widowed frontier ranch owner in 1890s Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Cordelia Frances Biddle
  • Martha Beale: in 1840s Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Michelle Black
  • Eden Murdoch and Brad Randall: in post-Civil War Colorado, in the Victorian West mysteries

Rick Boyer
  • Sherlock Holmes: detective in London, England

Gyles Brandreth
  • Oscar Wilde: poet, wit, and playwright, friend of Arthur Conan Doyle, and Robert Sherard, great-grandson of Wordsworth, investigate murders in Victorian England, Scotland, and France

Emily Brightwell
  • Inspector Witherspoon: a policeman, and Mrs. Jeffries, his housekeeper, in London, England, in the Victorian mysteries

Kate Bryan
  • Maggie Maguire: ex-Pinkerton agent in 1870s San Francisco, California

Carole Bugge
  • Sherlock Holmes: detective in London, England

Caleb Carr
  • John Schuyler Moore: turn-of-the-19th-century journalist in New York City

Philip J. Carraher
  • Sherlock Holmes: detective in London, England
Jeanne M. Dams
  • Hilda Johansson: young immigrant from Sweden working as a servant for the Studebaker family around the turn-of-the-19th century in South Bend, Indiana

William L. DeAndrea
  • Lobo Blacke: crippled ex-frontier lawman, and Quinn Booker, his biographer in Le Four, Wyoming

David Dickinson
  • Lord Francis Powerscourt: ex-Indian army intelligence officer and Irish peer, working as an investigator in the late Victorian period, in England and elsewhere

Carole Nelson Douglas
  • Irene Adler: opera star and sleuth in 19th century France

Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Sherlock Holmes: a detective in London, England

Joan Druett
  • Wiki Coffin: half New Zealand Maori and half American linguister (translator) aboard American South Seas Exploring Expedition in 1838

Loren D. Estleman
  • Sherlock Holmes: a detective in London, England

Quinn Fawcett (Chelsea Quinn Yarbro & Bill Fawcett)
  • Mycroft Holmes: Sherlock’s older brother, in London, England

Robert L. Fish
  • Schlock Homes: of 211B Bagel Street, a Sherlockian pastiche with a Yiddish perspective, in London, England

Ashley Gardner
  • Captain Gabriel Lacey: former cavalry officer in Regency-era London, England

John Gardner
  • Professor Moriarty: archenemy of Sherlock Holmes in London, England

Jason Goodwin
  • Yashim Togalu: eunuch for an Ottoman sultan, in 1830s Istanbul, Turkey

Ed Gorman
  • Noah Ford: military investigator for the Army in the post-Civil War US, in the Cavalry Man series
  • Leo Guild: 1980s bounty hunter in the western United States
  • Dev Mallory: Secret Service Agent in the post-Civil War US

Mark Graham
  • Wilton McCleary: Civil War veteran and policeman, in 1870s Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Ann Granger
  • Lizzie Martin: companion to a wealthy widow slum landlord, in 1860s London, England

John MacLachlan Gray
  • Edmund Whitty: correspondent for a Victorian tabloid in London, England

Oakley Hall
  • Ambrose Bierce: journalist, and his sidekick Tom Redmond in 1880s San Francisco, California

Barbara Hambly
  • Ben January: surgeon and music teacher, in 1830s New Orleans, Louisiana

C.S. Harris
  • Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, an investigator in Regency England

Peter J. Heck
  • Mark Twain: 19th century American author, and Wentworth Cabot, his secretary, in the USA

Steve Hockensmith
  • Otto “Big Red” Amlingmeyer and his brother Gustav “Old Red” in 1890s Montana, who got interested in being detectives after reading a Sherlock Holmes story

Sydney Hosier
  • Mrs. Hudson: housekeeper for the other sleuth of Baker Street, in London, England

Tom Hron
  • Eli Bonnet: US Marshal during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, in Alaska

Marian J.A. Jackson
  • Abigail Patience Danforth: 19th century heiress detective

Maureen Jennings
  • William Murdoch: police detective in 1890s Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Michael Kilian
  • Harrison Raines: Pinkerton spy during America’s Civil War

Laurie R. King
  • Mary Russell: student and then wife of Sherlock Holmes

Peter King
  • Jack London: author in the 1890s (before his famous novels) in San Francisco, California

Alanna Knight
  • Inspector Jeremy Faro: detective in Victorian Edinburgh, Scotland

Mary Kruger
  • Brooke Cassidy: mystery writer, and Matt Devlin, a private eye, in 1890s Newport, Rhode Island

W.W. Lee (Wendi Lee)
  • Jefferson Birch: former Texas ranger working for Tisdale Investigations, in the American West in the second half of the 19th century

David Liss
  • Benjamin Weaver: Jewish ex-pugilist hired by gentry to pursue debtors and thieves, in 18th Century London, England

Peter Lovesey
  • Albert Edward (Bertie): Prince of Wales, in England
  • Richard Cribb and Edward Thackeray: policeman in Victorian London, England

Anna Maclean
  • Louisa May Alcott: amateur sleuth before becoming a famous author, in pre-Civil War Boston, Massachusetts

Jeffrey Marks
  • General Ulysses Grant: returning to his hometown of Georgetown, Ohio, after the Civil War

Edward Marston
  • Robert Colbeck: former attorney now serving as an inspector in the fledging Scotland Yard in 1851 London, England

Ann McMillan
  • Narcissa Power: young widow, and Judah Daniel, a freedwoman who is also the local herbalist, at the time of the Civil War in Virgini

Mardi Oakley Medawar
  • Tay-bodal: 19th-century Kiowa healer in Oklahoma

Larry Millett
  • Sherlock Holmes: British detective and Shadwell Rafferty, an Irish saloonkeeper in Minnesota

Brent Monahan
  • John Le Brun: retired sheriff, in 1890s Brunswick, Georgia

Miriam Grace Monfredo
  • Bronwen Llyr: during the American Civil War, in the Cain Trilogy
  • Glynis Tryon: independent thinker and librarian, in mid-1800s New York, in the Seneca Falls mysteries

Arthur Morrison
  • Martin Hewitt: solicitor’s clerk in turn-of-the-19th-century London, England

Amy Myers
  • Auguste Didier: master chef in Victorian London, England

Robin Paige (Susan Wittig Albert)
  • Kathryn Ardleigh: American author who moves to Victorian Dedham, England, and Sir Charles Sheridan, a landed peer and amateur scientist

William J. Palmer
  • Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens: 19th century writers in London, England

Ann Parker
  • Inez Stannert: saloon owner, around 1880 in Leadville, Colorado, in the Silver Rush mysteries

Owen Parry
  • Abel Jones: federal agent during the American Civil War

Paula Paul (Paula Carter)
  • Alexandra Gladstone: doctor in Victorian Newton-on-Sea, England

Cynthia Peale
  • Caroline and Addington Ames: upperclass sibling sleuths in Victorian Boston, Massachusetts, in the Beacon Hill mysteries

Wilder Perkins
  • Bartholemew Hoare: British Navy officer wounded in the throat during the Napoleanic Wars of the early 1800s, and assigned to espionage duties

Anne Perry
  • William Monk: amnesiac police inspector in Victorian London, England
  • Thomas and Charlotte Pitt: police inspector and wife in Victorian London, England

Elizabeth Peters
  • Amelia Peabody: Victorian feminist Egyptologist from Kent, England

Bill Pronzini
  • John Quincannon: 19th century private eye in San Francisco, California

Amanda Quick (Jayne Ann Krentz)
  • Lavinia Lake and Tobias March: lovers and partners-in-crime investigators in Regency London, England

Barrie Roberts
  • Sherlock Holmes pastiches

G.S. Rowe
  • Will Beaman: working in a baseball front office starting in 1897, in Boston, Massachusetts

Kate Ross
  • Julian Kestrel: dandy-about-town in 1820s London, England

Alan Rustage
  • Inspector Blackstone: in Victorian England and the Empire

P.B. Ryan
  • Nell Sweeney: governess in post-Civil-War Boston, Massachusetts, in the Guilded Age Mysteries

Catherine Shaw
  • Vanessa Duncan: schoolteacher in late 19th century Cambridge, England

Randall Silvis
  • Edgar Allan Poe: author in 1800s New York City

Troy Soos
  • Rebecca Davies: child of privilege running a home for desperate women, and Marshall Webb, Rebecca’s beau, a freelance reporter for Harper’s Weekly who secretly pens dime novels

Daniel Stashower
  • Harry Houdini: escape artist

Rosemary Stevens
  • Beau Brummell: arbiter of fashion in the Regency era of Great Britain

Frank Tallis
  • Max Liebermann: psychoanalytic detective in turn-of-the-20th-century Vienna, Austria

Shirley Tallman
  • Sarah Woolson: attorney in 19th-century San Francisco, California

Will Thomas
  • Cyrus Barker: private detective, and his assistant, Thomas Llewelyn, an ex-student and ex-thief, in Victorian London, England

Victoria Thompson
  • Sarah Brandt: midwife in turn-of-the-19th-century New York City, in the Gaslight Mysteries

June Thomson
  • Sherlock Holmes series

M.J. Trow
  • Sholto Joseph Lestrade: Scotland Yard inspector in 19th century London, England

Wayne Worcester
  • Sherlock Holmes: detective in London, England, from the journals of Dr. Watson

Robert W. Walker
  • Alastair Ransom: inspector, and Jane Francis Tewes, a doctor, in the 1890s in Chicago, Illinois

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