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The Darling Dahlias and the Cucumber Tree
Susan Wittig Albert - Berkley
Format: eBook
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The country may be struggling through the Great Depression, but the good ladies of Darling, Alabama, are determined to keep their chins up and their town beautiful. Their garden club, the Darling Dahlias, has just inherited a new clubhouse and garden, complete with two beautiful cucumber... |
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Mark of the Lion: A Jade Del Cameron Novel
Suzanne Middendorf Arruda - New American Library
Format: Print book
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In 1919, when most women only dream of adventure, Jade del Cameron lives it. After growing up tough on a New Mexico ranch, then driving an ambulance along the front lines of World War I, she can fire a rifle with deadly precision and stare down men maddened by shell shock. Now, still... |
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Nemesis: The Final Case of Eliot Ness A Novel
William Bernhardt - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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In his bestselling legal thrillers, William Bernhardt has explored the dark side of contemporary politics, power, and the law. Now Bernhardt turns back the clock to the city of Cleveland, Ohio, in the fall of 1935. Based on true events and new discoveries about Eliot Ness, Nemesis is a brilliantly... |
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Her Royal Spyness (A Royal Spyness Mystery)
Rhys Bowen - Berkley Prime Crime
Format: Print book
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The Agatha Award winner debuts a 1930s London mystery series, featuring a penniless twenty-something member of the extended royal family. Her ridiculously long name is Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, daughter to the Duke of Atholt and Rannoch. And she is flat broke. As the thirty-fourth... |
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Blotto, Twinks and the Ex-King's Daughter: Blotto, Twinks #1
Simon Brett - Felony & Mayhem
Format: Paperback
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It's that glorious period between the two world wars, and the exiled king of Mitteleuropa is visiting the ancestral home of the Duke of Tawcester. When the ex-king's daughter is kidnapped, noblesse obliges the Duke's handsome, brave, and rather stupid son (known to all as Blotto) to drive... |
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A Trace of Smoke
Rebecca Cantrell - Forge
Format: Print book
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Even though hardened crime reporter Hannah Vogel knows all too well how tough it is to survive in 1931 Berlin, she is devastated when she sees a photograph of her brother's body posted in the Hall of the Unnamed Dead. Ernst, a cross-dressing lounge singer at a seedy nightclub, had many... |
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The Last Kashmiri Rose: Murder and Mystery in the Final Days of the Raj
Barbara Cleverly - Carroll & Graf
Format: Hardcover
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Conjuring up the last golden days of the Raj and the turbulent early ones of Indian rule, this suspenseful and atmospheric first novel - the winner of the Crime Writer Association's Debut Dagger competition - draws the governor of Bengal, local police authorities, and visiting Scotland... |
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Death at Wentwater Court (Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries, No. 1)
Carola Dunn - Center Point Large Print
Format: Large Print]
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More than twenty years ago, Carola Dunn introduced to the world the charming, vivacious and perspicacious Daisy Dalrymple and the tumultuous decade of the 1920s, in an England barely starting to recover from World War I and now undergoing rapid social changes. In early 1923, the young Honourable... |
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Cocaine Blues
Kerry Greenwood - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Hardcover
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This is where it all started! The first classic Phryne Fisher mystery, featuring our delectable heroine, cocaine, communism and adventure. Phryne leaves the tedium of English high society for Melbourne, Australia, and never looks back. The London season is in full fling at the end of the 1920s,... |
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The Beekeeper's Apprentice: or, On the Segregation of the Queen
Laurie R. King - Picador/Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Paperback
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An Agatha Award Best Novel NomineeNamed One of the Century's Best 100 Mysteries by the Independent Mystery Booksellers AssociationFrom New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King comes the book that introduced us to the ingenious Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes mysteries, The... |
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Ghosts of Manhattan
George Mann - Pyr
Format: Paperback
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1926. New York. The Roaring Twenties. Jazz. Flappers. Prohibition. Coal-powered cars. A cold war with a British Empire that still covers half of the globe. Yet things have developed differently from established history. America is in the midst of a cold war with a British Empire that has only... |
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After the Armistice Ball: A Dandy Gilver Murder Mystery
Catriona McPherson - Carroll & Graf
Format: Hardcover
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Dandy Gilver, her husband back from the War, her children off at school and her uniform growing musty in the attic, is bored to a whimper in the spring of 1923 and a little light snooping seems like harmless fun. And what could be better than to seek out the Duffy diamonds, stolen from... |
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Whose Body?
Dorothy L Sayers - HarperCollins Publ.
Format: Paperback
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The stark naked body was lying in the tub. Not unusual for a proper bath, but highly irregular for murder -- especially witha pair of gold pince-nez deliberately perched before the sightless eyes. What's more, the face appeared to have been shaved after death. The police assumed that... |
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City of Dragons (A Miranda Corbie Mystery)
Kelli Stanley - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover
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A 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist. February, 1940. In San Franciscos Chinatown, fireworks explode as the city celebrates Chinese New Year with a Rice Bowl Party, a three day-and-night carnival designed to raise money and support for China war relief. Miranda Corbie is a 33-year-old... |
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A Test of Wills: The First Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery
Charles Todd - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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"Todd has written a first novel that speaks out, urgently and compassionately, for a long-dead generation ... .A meticulously wrought puzzle." - New York Times Book Review"An intricately plotted mystery. With this remarkable debut, Charles Todd breaks new ground in the historical... |
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An Expert in Murder: A New Mystery Featuring Josephine Tey
Nicola Upson - Harper
Format: Print book
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A brilliant and original fiction debut set in the exotic world of 1930s British theatreMarch 1934. Revered mystery writer Josephine Tey is traveling from Scotland to London for the final week of her celebrated play Richard of Bordeaux. But joy turns to horror when her arrival coincides... |
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Maisie Dobbs
Jacqueline Winspear - Soho
Format: Hardcover
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"Meet Maisie Dobbs, who in 1929 launches her career as a private investigator and finds herself drawn back to the Great War she thought she'd long since put behind her: an unexpected beginning for Maisie-and a rare treat for mystery fans."-Charles Todd "A welcomed addition... |
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