The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits Volume 1

A collection of whodunnits features the work of such masters of the genre as Peter Tremayne, Paul Harding, S. S. Rafferty, Lillian de La Torre, Michael Harrison, John Dickson Carr, Edward D. Hoch, and others.

Contents

The locked tomb mystery / Elizabeth Peters —

The thief versus King Rhampsinitus / Herodotus —

Socrates solves a murder / Brèni James —

Mightier than the sword / John Maddox Roberts —

The treasury thefts / Wallace Nichols —

A Byzantine mystery / Mary Reed and Eric Mayer —

He came with the rain / Robert van Gulik —

The High King’s sword / Peter Tremayne —

The price of light / Ellis Peters —

The confession of Brother Athelstan / Paul Harding —

The witch’s tale / Margaret Frazer —

Father Hugh and the deadly scythe / Mary Monica Pulver —

Leonardo da Vinci, detective / Theodore Mathieson —

A sad and bloody hour / Joe Gores —

The Christmas Masque / S. S. Rafferty —

Murder lock’d in / Lillian de la Torre —

Captain Nash and the Wroth inheritance / Raymond Butler —

The Doomdorf mystery / Melville Davisson Post —

Murder in the Rue Royale / Michael Harrison —

The gentleman from Paris / John Dickson Carr —

The Golden Nugget poker game / Edward D. Hoch —

The case of the Deptford horror / Adrian Conan Doyle —

Five rings in Reno / R. L. Stevens —

Afterword : Old-time detection / Arthur Griffiths