Mystery/Crime

A Personal Devil

By Roberta Gellis - Published 2001

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeRomance

One may pause and ponder when confronted with a novel that features a prostitute as the heroine, particularly one who is also a ...Read Review

Mrs. Jeffries Weeds the Plot

By Emily Brightwell - Published 2000

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This is the latest in the many-volume Victorian Mystery series, starring Mrs. Jeffries. Housekeeper to Inspector Witherspoon, her detective skills far outweigh his, ...Read Review

Mortal Sins

By Penn Williamson - Published 2000

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeThriller

New Orleans’ reputation for political corruption and urban violence serves as an intriguing backdrop for the outlandish behavior and Mardi Gras mayhem also ...Read Review

My Dream of You

By Nuala O'Faolain - Published 2001

Genres:

LiteraryMystery/Crime

A beloved colleague’s abrupt death propels travel writer Kathleen de Burca into a quest for personal and historical truths in this debut ...Read Review

Unwise Passions: A True Story of a Remarkable Woman– and the First Great Scandal of Eighteenth-Century America

By Alan Pell Crawford - Published 2000

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeNonfictionRomance

Unwise Passions is an engaging, thought-provoking biography that provides fascinating insight into an old scandal that wreaked havoc among several of the oldest ...Read Review

Murder Most Confederate

By Martin H. Greenberg - Published 2000

Genres:

MilitaryMystery/Crime

Murder Most Confederate is the second volume of the Murder Most series. It is a compilation of sixteen short stories by various authors, ...Read Review

Wainewright the Poisoner: The Confession of Thomas Griffiths Wainewright–Regency Author, Painter, Swindler and Probable Murderer–Woven from Historical Fragments

By Andrew Motion - Published 2000

Genres:

LiteraryMystery/CrimeNonfiction

Thomas Griffiths Wainewright began life in a household of leisured literati and ended, through attempts to maintain that life, as convict number 2325 in ...Read Review

The Squire’s Tale

By Margaret Frazer - Published 2000

Genres:

AdventureMystery/Crime

Robert Fenner, a landholder and former squire, attempts to settle a dispute between his lady wife Blaunche and her former in-laws. Believing that ...Read Review

A Killing at Ball’s Bluff: A Harrison Raines Civil War Mystery

By Michael Kilian - Published 2001

Genres:

MilitaryMystery/Crime

Ball’s Bluff was a relatively insignificant affair when compared with the carnage at Shiloh, Antietam, and Gettysburg. Civil War historians and enthusiasts ...Read Review

Fingerprints: The Origins of Crime Detection and the Murder Case That Launched Forensic Science

By Colin Beavan - Published 2001

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeNonfiction

This is a fascinating look into the history and use of fingerprints in crime detection. Beavan begins the book by recounting a terrible ...Read Review