|
| Robin Adair |
| • |
Nicodemus Dunne: a fallen
Bow Street Runner working as a running patterer, spreading the daily
news by word of mouth, transported to 1828 Sydney, Australia, in the
Curious Murder mysteries |
| Mary Jo Adamson |
| • |
Michael Merrick:
newspaperman in 1840s Boston, Massachusetts |
| Boris Akunin |
| • |
Erast Fandorin: sleuth in 19th century St. Petersburg, Russia |
| • |
Sister Pelagia: nun in a province beyond the Volga, in 19th century Russia |
| Tasha Alexander |
| • |
Lady Emily Ashton: young and recently widowed, in Victorian London, England |
| David Ashton |
| • |
James McLevy: police inspector in 1880s Edinburgh, Scotland |
| 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 |
| Jack Bickham |
| • |
Charity Ross: widowed
frontier ranch owner in 1890s Oklahoma City, Oklahoma |
| Cordelia Frances Biddle |
| • |
Martha Beale: in 1840s Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Conor Brady |
| • |
Joe Swallow: detective sergeant in 1880s Dublin, Ireland |
| 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 |
| Armand Cabasson |
| • |
Quentin Margont: officer and investigator in the Grande Armée, in the early 1800s, during the Napoleonic Wars |
| Carol K. Carr |
| • |
India Black, a young
madam running a brothel catering to gentlemen, in 1870s London, England |
| M.E. Cooper |
| • |
W.W. Loring: Confederate
General in 1862 Virginia |
| Donna Fletcher Crow |
| • |
Lord Charles Danvers, fictionalized Victorian true crime in mid-19th century 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 |
| Anna Dean |
| • |
Miss Dido Kent: 35-year-old
amateur sleuth, starting in 1805 Regency England |
| William L. DeAndrea |
| • |
Lobo Blacke:
crippled ex-frontier lawman, and Quinn Booker, his biographer in
Le Four, Wyoming |
| Vicki Delany |
| • |
Fiona MacGillivray:
owner of the Savoy dance hall, her 12-year old
son Angus, and constable Richard Sterling, in the gold rush of 1898,
in Dawson, Yukon Territory, Canada |
| 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 |
| William Dietrich |
| • |
Ethan Gage: American
adventurer and rascal, starting in 1799 |
| Carole Nelson Douglas |
| • |
Irene Adler:
opera star and sleuth in 19th century France |
| 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 |
| • |
Page Murdock:
deputy US Marshal in 1880s American West (and Canada) |
| Stanley Evans |
| • |
Sergeant Decker:
frontier lawman in 1860s British Columbia, Canada |
| Richard Falkirk (Derek Lambert) |
| • |
Edmund Blackstone: Bow Street runner in early 19th-century London, England |
| Christopher Farnsworth |
| • |
Nathaniel Cade: a vampire sworn to protect the president and the United States from supernatural threats, starting in the Andrew Johnson administration (1867) |
| Quinn Fawcett (Chelsea Quinn Yarbro & Bill Fawcett) |
| • |
Mycroft
Holmes: Sherlock’s older brother, in
London, England |
| Lyndsay Faye |
| • |
Timothy Wilde: ex-bartender and officer in the newly organized police force, in 1845 New York City |
| Charles Finch |
| • |
Charles Lenox: gentleman
sleuth, in 1860s London, England |
| Robert L. Fish |
| • |
Schlock Homes:
of 211B Bagel Street, a Sherlockian pastiche with a Yiddish perspective,
in London, England |
| Sara Fraser |
| • |
Thomas Potts: reluctant constable of Tardebrigge parish, in 1820s Worcestershire, England |
| Mark Frost |
| • |
Arthur Conan Doyle:
doctor, author, and student of the paranormal, in late 19th century
London, England |
| Philip Gooden |
| • |
Thomas Ansell: London
attorney who travels to British cathedral towns during the Victorian
era |
| 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 |
| • |
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 |
| Tracy Grant |
| • |
Charles Fraser: idealistic
MP and former intelligence agent, and his wife Mélanie, a
war refugee, in Regency London, England |
| John MacLachlan Gray |
| • |
Edmund Whitty: correspondent
for a Victorian tabloid in London, England |
| Michael Gregorio |
| • |
Hanno Stiffeniis: magistrate
in the Napoleonic era, in early 1800s Konigsberg, Prussia |
| 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 |
| Ray Harrison |
| • |
Joseph Bragg, a down-to-earth
detective sergeant, and James Morton, an upper-crust constable, in
1890s London, England |
| Steven F. Havill |
| • |
Thomas Parks:
doctor in 1890s Port McKinney, Washington |
| Peter J. Heck |
| • |
Mark Twain: 19th
century American author, and Wentworth Cabot, his secretary, in the
USA |
| 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 |
| Anna Lee Huber |
| • |
Lady Darby: an anatomist’s widow taking refuge at her sister’s estate, in 1830s Scotland |
| Lee Jackson |
| • |
Sarah Tanner: proprietor
of the Dining and Coffee Rooms and amateur sleuth, in 1850s London,
England |
| • |
Decimus Webb: Scotland
Yard inspector in 1870s London, England |
| Maureen Jennings |
| • |
William Murdoch:
police detective in 1890s Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| M.R.C. Kasasian |
| • |
Sidney Grice: London’s most famous personal detective, and his goddaughter and ward, March Middleton, in 1880s London, England, in the Gower Street Detective series |
| 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 |
| • |
Ned Parker: hansom
cab driver in 1870s London, England |
| Robert Kresge |
| • |
Kate Shaw: a new
schoolteacher in a new town, and Monday Malone, a Texas cowboy heading
for Montana, in fictional 1870s Warbonnet, Wyoming |
| Mary Kruger |
| • |
Brooke Cassidy: mystery
writer, and Matt Devlin, a private eye, in 1890s Newport, Rhode Island |
| Michael Kurland |
| • |
Professor Moriarty:
the Napoleon of Crime and nemesis of Sherlock Holmes, in 1890s London,
England |
| 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 |
| Clyde Linsley |
| • |
Josiah Beede: war
hero at the Battle of New Orleans, retired lawyer, and 1830s New
England farmer |
| David Liss |
| • |
Benjamin Weaver: Jewish
ex-pugilist hired by gentry to pursue debtors and thieves, in 18th
Century London, England |
| Joan Lock |
| • |
Ernest Best: detective sergeant, later inspector, starting in 1870s London, England |
| Catherine Lloyd |
| • |
Robert Kurland: army major wounded at Waterloo, and his childhood friend and housekeeper, Lucy Harrington, the rector’s daughter, in Kurland St. Mary, in Regency England |
| Anna Maclean |
| • |
Louisa May Alcott:
amateur sleuth before becoming a famous author, in pre-Civil War
Boston, Massachusetts |
| James McGee |
| • |
Matthew Hawkwood: former English army officer, now a Bow Street Runner, in early 19th century London |
| 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 |
| Carol McCleary |
| • |
Nellie Bly: American
investigative reporter, in Paris and around the world, starting in
1889 |
| 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 Virginia |
| Frances McNamara |
| • |
Emily Cabot: one
of the first female graduate students, in sociology in the 1890s
at the University of Chicago, Illinois |
| Mardi Oakley Medawar |
| • |
Tay-bodal:
19th-century Kiowa healer in Oklahoma |
| D.E. Meredith |
| • |
Adolphus Hatton: professor
and forensic scientist advising the police, and his trusty assistant,
Albert Roumande, in late 1850s London, England |
| Nicholas Meyer |
| • |
Sherlock Holmes:
from the posthumous memoirs of Dr. Watson, in the
1890s in Europe |
| 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 |
| R.N. Morris |
| • |
Porfiry Petrovich: the police inspector in Dostoevsky’s Crime
and Punishment, in 1860s St. Petersburg, Russia |
| Arthur Morrison |
| • |
Martin Hewitt:
solicitor’s clerk in turn-of-the-19th-century London, England |
| Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini |
| • |
Sabina Carpenter: a former Pinkerton operative, and her detective partner, ex-Secret Service agent John Quincannon, in late 1890s San Francisco, California |
| Amy Myers |
| • |
Auguste Didier: master
chef in Victorian London, England |
| • |
Tom Wasp: chimney
sweep in Victorian times in the East End of London, England |
| Baroness Orczy |
| • |
Sir Percy Blakeney, the Scarlet Pimpernel, the mysterious English baronet who rescues French aristocrats from certain death after the French revolution |
| 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 |
| Félix J. Palma |
| • |
H.G. Wells, Thomas Edison, and other historical characters, in a historical-fantasy-thriller Victorian trilogy |
| 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 |
| Caro Peacock (Gillian Linscott) |
| • |
Liberty
Lane: young woman sleuth in 1830s London, England |
| Cynthia Peale |
| • |
Caroline and Addington
Ames: upperclass sibling sleuths in Victorian Boston, Massachusetts,
in the Beacon Hill mysteries |
| Andrea Penrose |
| • |
Lady Arianna Hadley:
posing as a French chef in an aristocratic household in 1813 London,
England |
| Andrew Pepper |
| • |
Pyke: beginning as
a Bow Street Runner in 1829-1940s London, England |
| Wilder Perkins |
| • |
Bartholemew Hoare:
British Navy officer wounded in the throat during the Napoleanic
Wars of the early 1800s, and assigned to espionage duties |
| Elizabeth Peters |
| • |
Amelia Peabody:
Victorian feminist Egyptologist from Kent, England |
| Sarah Pinborough |
| • |
Dr. Thomas Bond: physician assisting the police investigating brutal serial killings, in 1880s London, England |
| R Barbara Corrado Pope |
| • |
Bernard Martin:
investigating magistrate in late 19th century Provence, France |
| Bill Pronzini |
| • |
John Quincannon:
19th century private eye in San Francisco, California |
| Madeleine E. Robins |
| • |
Sarah Tolerance: freelance agent of inquiry in Regency London, England |
| Roberta Rogow |
| • |
Rev. Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle team up in 1880s Victorian England |
| G.S. Rowe |
| • |
Will Beaman: working
in a baseball front office starting in 1897, in Boston, Massachusetts |
| P.B. Ryan |
| • |
Nell Sweeney: governess
in post-Civil-War Boston, Massachusetts, in the Guilded
Age Mysteries |
| Francis Selwyn (Donald Thomas) |
| • |
William Verity:
detective sergeant mostly in mid-19th century London, England |
| Catherine Shaw |
| • |
Vanessa Duncan:
schoolteacher in late 19th century Cambridge, England |
| Lloyd Shepherd |
| • |
Charles Horton: Thames River Police Chief, and John Harriott, a River Police magistrate, in 1810s London, England |
| Lynn Shepherd |
| • |
Charles Maddox: former Metropolitan police officer now working privately as a thief taker (detective) in 1850s London, England |
| Kieran Shields |
| • |
Archie Lean, newly appointed deputy marshal, and Perceval Grey, a part-Indian Pinkerton agent, in 1890s Portland, Maine |
| Joanna Campbell Slan |
| • |
Jane Eyre, and her husband Edward Rochester, as amateur sleuths in 1850s England, in the Jane Eyre Chronicles |
| 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 |
| Rosemary Stevens |
| • |
Beau Brummell:
arbiter of fashion in the Regency era of Great
Britain |
| Linda Stratmann |
| • |
Frances Doughty, the young daughter of a pharmacist, and an amateur sleuth (later professional detective), in Victorian London, England |
| 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 |
| Donald Thomas |
| • |
Alfred Swain: detective
inspector at Scotland Yard in late 19th century England |
| Edwin Thomas |
| • |
Martin Jerrold: lieutenant
in the British Navy in the early 1800s, in the Reluctant Adventures
trilogy |
| 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 |
| Kerry Tombs |
| • |
Samuel Ravenscroft:
detective inspector with the Whitechapel Constabulary, in the late
1880s in Worcestershire, England |
| Morley Torgov |
| • |
Hermann Preiss: police inspector dealing with the likes of Robert & Clara Schumann and Richard Wagner in mid-19th century Düsseldorf and Munich, Germany |
| M.J. Trow |
| • |
Captain Matthew Grand, a Union cavalry officer, and James Batchelor, a London journalist, in the 1860s, in the Grand & Batchelor Victorian mysteries |
| • |
Sholto Joseph Lestrade:
Scotland Yard inspector in 19th century
London, England |
| Robert W. Walker |
| • |
Alastair Ransom:
inspector, and Jane Francis Tewes, a doctor, in the 1890s in Chicago,
Illinois |
| Dennis Wheatley |
| • |
Roger Brook:
special agent for Prime Minister William Pitt, from 1783-1815, in
Europe, Asia, and the Americas |
| Jenny White |
| • |
Kamil Pasha: magistrate
in the new secular courts in the late 19th century Ottoman Empire,
in Istanbul, Turkey |
| Lauren Willig |
| • |
Eloise Kelly: Harvard
grad student writing her Ph.D. dissertation on spies of the late
18th and early 19th century, in a romantic thriller series |
| Wayne Worcester |
| • |
Sherlock Holmes:
detective in London, England, from the journals of Dr. Watson |
| M.J. Zellnik |
| • |
Libby Seale: a seamstress
from New York, and newspaper reporter Peter Eberle, in 1894 Portland,
Oregon |
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