I’ve listed the historical mysteries by century.
BCE
- Christie, Agatha, Death Comes as the End
1st Century
- Davis, Lindsey, Alexandria, The Ides of April
12th Century
- Franklin, Ariana, Grave Goods, Mistress of the Art of Death, A Murderous Procession, The Serpent’s Tale
- Peters, Ellis, Monk’s Hood, A Morbid Taste for Bones, One Corpse Too Many, St. Peter’s Fair
14th Century
- Eco, Umberto, The Name of the Rose
16th Century
- Mina, Denise, Rizzio
- Sansom, C. J., Dark Fire, Dissolution, Heartstone, Lamentation, Revelation, Sovereign, Tombland
17th Century
- Bayard, Louis, The School of Night
- Pötzsch, Oliver, The Beggar King
- Rock, Judith, The Eloquence of Blood, A Plague of Lies, The Rhetoric of Death
- Taylor, Andrew, The Ashes of London, The Fire Court, The King’s Evil, The Last Protector, The Royal Secret, The Shadows of London
18th Century
- Ekbäck, Cecilia, Wolf Winter
- Hodgson, Antonia, A Death at Fountains Abbey, The Devil in the Marshalsea, The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins, The Silver Collar
- MacLean, S. G., The Bookseller of Inverness
19th Century
- Akunin, Boris, Special Assignments: The Further Adventures of Erast Fandorin
- Atwood, Margaret, Alias Grace
- Bayard, Louis, Mr. Timothy, The Pale Blue Eye
- Beutner, Katharine, Killingly
- Dickinson, David, Death on the Nevskii Prospekt
- Eastland, Sam, Eye of the Red Tsar
- Ekbäck, Cecilia, In the Month of the Midnight Sun
- Faye, Lyndsay, Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson, The Fatal Flame, The Gods of Gotham, Seven for a Secret, The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes
- Gardner, John, Moriarty
- Gerritsen, Tess, The Bone Garden
- Gray, Juliana, A Most Extraordinary Pursuit
- Grecian, Alex, The Yard
- Horowitz, Anthony, Moriarty
- Izner, Claude, Murder on the Eiffel Tower
- James, P. D., Death Comes to Pemberly
- March, Nev, Murder in Old Bombay
- McCrumb, Sharon, The Ballad of Tom Dooley
- Palliser, Charles, Rustication
- Pears, Iain, Stone’s Fall
- Raybourn, Deanna, The Dark Inquiry, Dark Road to Darjeeling, A Treacherous Curse, Twelfth Night
- Reeve, Alex, The House on Half Moon Street
- Schmidt, Sarah, See What I Have Done
- Shepherd, Lynn, A Fatal Likeness, Murder at Mansfield Park
- Szymiczkowa, Maryla, Karolina and the Torn Curtain
- White, Jenny, The Abyssinian Proof, The Winter Thief
20th Century (first half)
- Beukes, Lauren, The Shining Girls
- Black, Benjamin, Christine Falls
- Bowen, Rhys, The Edge of Dreams, The Ghost of Christmas Past, On Her Majesty’s Frightfully Secret Service
- Bradley, Alan, As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust, The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches, I Am Half-Sick with Shadows, A Red Herring Without Mustard, Speaking From Among the Bones, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew’d
- Fowler, Christopher, Full Dark House
- Franklin, Ariana, City of Shadows
- Greenwood, Kerry, Murder in the Dark, Raisins and Almonds, Unnatural Habits
- Griffiths, Elly, Smoke and Mirrors, The Zig Zag Girl
- Hannah, Sophie, The Monogram Murders
- Khemlin, Margarita, The Investigator
- King, Laurie, R., The Bones of Paris
- Knoll, Jessica, Bright Young Women
- Lawhon, Ariel, The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress
- Massey, Sujata, The Widows of Malabar Hill
- Massie, Allan, End Games in Bordeaux
- McKinty, Adrian, The Sun Is God
- McPherson, Catriona, Dandy Gilver and a Bothersome Number of Corpses, Dandy Gilver and a Deadly Measure of Brimstone, Dandy Gilver and a Spot of Toil and Trouble, Dandy Gilver and the Unpleasantness in the Ballroom, The Edinburgh Murders, In Place of Fear, The Mirror Dance, The Reek of Red Herrings, The Turning Tide
- Mills, Mark, The Information Officer
- Mina, Denise, The Long Drop
- Pearce, Michael, A Dead Man in Athens
- Powell, Laura, The Unforgotten
- Runcie, James, Sidney Chambers and the Dangers of Temptation, Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death
- St. James, Simone, The Broken Girls, The Haunting of Maddy Clare, An Inquiry into Love and Death, Lost Among the Living, The Other Side of Midnight, Silence for the Dead
- Speller, Elizabeth, The Return of Captain John Emmett, The Strange Fate of Kitty Easton
- Stewart, Amy, Girl Waits with Gun, Lady Cop Makes Trouble
- Vyleta, Daniel, The Quiet Twin
- Winspear, Jacqueline, Birds of a Feather
- Yakovleva, Yulia, Punishment of a Hunter
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