Good Reads - Fiction

Mystery

Historical Mysteries in Series: 1800 – 1850

All titles are shelved in the Mystery section of the library and are the first in each series in the Downers Grove Public Library's collection.

M/BARRON
Barron, Stephanie - Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor - 1996, 288p.
When: Early 1800s
Where: England
Who: Jane Austen, author

M/BASTABLE
Bastable, Bernard - Dead, Mr. Mozart - 1994, 183p.
When: 1820s
Where: London
Who: Wolfgang Gottlieb Mozart, musician, composer

M/BURNS
Burns, Ron - The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis - 1993, 242p.
When: 1809
Where: United States
Who: Harrison Hull, a United States Army Captain, investigator

M/HAMBLY
Hambly, Barbara - A Free Man Of Color - 1997, 311p.
When: 1830s
Where: New Orleans
Who: Benjamin January, former slave, piano player at the Salle d'Orleans

M/HATVARY
Hatvary, George Egon - The Murder of Edgar Allan Poe: A Novel - 1997, 211p.
When: 1849
Where: New York, Richmond, and Baltimore
Who: Auguste Dupin, amateur detective created by Edgar Allan Poe

M/MONFREDO
Monfredo, Miriam Grace - Seneca Falls Inheritance - 1992, 259p.
When: 1848
Where: Seneca Falls, New York
Who: Glynis Tryon, librarian

M/MYERS
Myers, Amy - Murder Makes an Entrée - 1996, 279p.
When: 1800s
Where: London
Who: Auguste Didier, cooking school instructor and Egbert Rose, detective

M/PERKINS
Perkins, Wilder - Hoare and the Portsmouth Atrocities - 1998, 217p.
When: 1805
Where: Portsmouth, England
Who: Bartholomew Hoare, Lieutenant in the British Navy

M/ROSS
Ross, Kate - Cut to the Quick - 1993, 337p.
When: 1820s
Where: England
Who: Julian Kestrel, Gentleman

M/SCHUNK
Schunk, Laurel - Death in Exile - 1998, 310p
When: 1816
Where: England
Who: Anna Katherine Forsythe, governess, and Quillen Rossiter, Fourth Earl of Wentworth

Prepared by Carol Yarmolich, November 2001