Historical detectives

Peter Tremayne is the alias used by Celtic scholar Peter Berresford Ellis (b. 1943) for his mystery and weird fiction. The author of over sixty books, Tre...

The story was one of the three winners of the fairy tale marathon competition “Criminal Forget-Me-Nots” and was published in the collection “Criminal Forget-...

May 1899. On a rainy day, a sound technician from Berliner & Co. comes to detective Marmeladov with a gramophone record. During a Chaliapin concert, he accid...

From the acclaimed author of the Charles Lenox series of mysteries, including the Agatha-nominated novel A Beautiful Blue Death, comes a riveting short st...

November 1824. Vladimir Korsakov has not yet been born, but his family has been protecting the empire from dark forces for two centuries. Meanwhile, St. Pete...

The young heir to a brilliant dynasty tragically drowned in a lake near his estate near St. Petersburg. At least that's what it seems at first glance. Howeve...

A major banker is murdered in London, and a Scotland Yard inspector begins an investigation. The case is not simple: security was assigned to all the victim’...

Barbagia. End of the 19th century. A young man accused of murder commits suicide in prison. But is he really a criminal who decided to punish himself, or did...

1885 The postmaster in Kolomna, Felix Yanovich Kolbovsky, witnesses how the merchant Grivov receives a letter that causes him indescribable joy. However, the...

The story takes place at the beginning of the century. The reader is confronted with a series of suspects, many of whom were enemies of the murdered man. The...