A feast of historical detective stories, from the earliest known locked-room mystery (35,000 BC), through ancient Rome and China to medieval England, the Wild West, the Indian Raj and Victorian London:

Ellis Peters unravels a fourteenth-century witch trial.

Robert van Gulik's real-life magistrate Judge Dee, in seventh-century China.

A new story by Peter Tremayne featuring Sister Fidelma, in Dark Age Ireland.

Edward Hoch turns Ben Snow, his cowboy-investigator, loose on the range.

Margaret Frazer's Sister Frevisse, and a medieval Oxford murder mystery.

The Roman detective Gordianus cracks a theatrical case with the help of Steven Saylor.

Lillian de la Torre, the great Dr Sam: Johnson and his faithful Watson, James Boswell.

Roger the Chapman, Kate Sedley's traveller-detective, has only one night to solve a murder.

And introducing two new historical detectives, Captain Cook and William Shakespeare, and many more...

Contents:

• Part I: The Ancient World
  • Death in the Dawntime (1995) by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
  • Judgement of Daniel Anonymous
  • Death Wears a Mask (1992) by Steven Saylor
  • The King of Sacrifices (1995) by John Maddox Roberts
  • The Three Travellers (1976) by R.L. Stevens
  • The Case of the Murdered Senator (1950) by Wallace Nichols
  • A Mithraic Mystery (1995) by Mary Reed & Eric Mayer
  • Abbey Sinister (1995) by Peter Tremayne
  • The Two Beggars (1967) by Robert van Gulik
• Part II: The Middle Ages
  • The Investigation of Things (1991) by Charles Ardai
  • The Midwife’s Tale (1995) by Margaret Frazer
  • The Duchess and the Doll (1950) by Edith Pargeter
  • Ordeal by Fire (1995) by Mary Monica Pulver
  • The Chapman and the Tree of Doom (1995) by Kate Sedley
• Part III: The Age of Discovery
  • The Murder of Innocence (1995) by P.C. Doherty
  • Cassandra’s Castle; or, The Devious Disappearances (1975) by J.F. Peirce
  • Man’s Inherited Death (1987) by Keith Heller
  • The Curse of the Connecticut Clock (1979) by S.S. Rafferty
  • The Scent of Murder (“Captain Cook, Detective”, 1958) by Theodore Mathieson
  • The Inn of the Black Crow (1915) by William Hope Hodgson
  • The Spirit of the ’76 (1977) by Lillian de la Torre
• Part IV: Regency and Gaslight
  • Deadly Will and Testament (1995) by Ron Burns
  • The God of the Hills (1927) by Melville Davisson Post
  • The Admiral’s Lady (1995) by Joan Aiken
  • The Eye of Shiva (1995) by Peter MacAlan
  • The Trail of the Bells (1985) by Edward D. Hoch
  • Murdering Mr Boodle (1995) by Amy Myers
• Part V: Holmes and Beyond
  • The Phantom Pistol (1989) by Jack Adrian
  • The Adventure of the Frightened Governess (1995) by Basil Copper