Mystery
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Book 1 in the Barker & Llewelyn series. When Cyrus Barker advertises for a new assistant, a job that is described as having “some danger involved”, Thomas Llewelyn applies for the job. Barker is a Sherlock Holmes-style private detective possessing great knowledge, impressive fighting skills, a vast network of contacts and informants and firsthand experience
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A good historical mystery is like a time machine, transporting the reader from the present to a completely different era. If the idea of a literary trip to the Victorian era intrigues you, try one or all of these cozy mystery series set in Victorian London. Relaxing, funny and light-hearted, these books are perfect for
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Book 1 in the Fiona Figg Mysteries series. Fiona Figg has a photographic memory. As a child, she devoured Sherlock Holmes stories and loved acting. Many years later, during World War 1, these skills come in handy as Fiona volunteers to replace an injured agent for an undercover mission for the War Office, giving her
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Book 1 in the Captain Jim and Lady Diana Mysteries series. Bombay 1892. Captain Jim Agnihotri, a big Sherlock Holmes fan, has just begun working as a journalist after recovering from injuries sustained in a battle. At Bombay University, two young women from the prominent Parsee Framji family die from falling from the top of
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Father Brown is a series of 52 short stories by G. K. Chesterton, and an ongoing TV show with 12 seasons. A mild and fairly meek character, Father Brown has been called “the empathetic detective”, quietly solving crimes by identifying with the murderer and understanding their psychology. The Father Brown TV series is only loosely
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Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, known as Georgie to her friends, is a cousin of King George V of England and 35th in line to the throne. Unfortunately her family has fallen on hard times, and as Georgie refuses to marry for anything but love, she is basically penniless. Determined to fend for herself without
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Book 1 in the Veronica Speedwell series. Miss Veronica Speedwell is not your typical Victorian-era lady. Orphaned at a young age and brought up by two spinster sisters, Veronica is a lepidopterist with scandalously modern ideas of women’s independence, and even her love of butterflies comes from a desire for freedom. A young lady should
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Book 1 in the Anno Dracula series. What if vampires were the ruling class of Victorian England, with Dracula himself having turned and married Queen Victoria, installing himself in London as the ruler of the British Empire? And what if the victims of Jack the Ripper were all vampires? This is the premise of Anno
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Sadie Coleman has moved to the small town of Shady Creek with her cat Wimsey and opened the Inkwell, a literary themed pub in the town’s old grist mill. Leaving her old life in Boston behind, Sadie is busy preparing for the annual Autumn Festival when a part of her old life, her ex boyfriend
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Magpie Murders is book 1 in the Susan Ryeland series by Anthony Horowitz. Magpie Murders was published in 2016, and the TV series is a 6 episode TV series from 2022. Alan Conway is a successful crime writer and a really unpleasant person, taking pleasure in basing his characters on real people, exposing their secrets
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