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If You Like... Historical Mysteries
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Try one of these character-driven historical mysteries featuring intrepid women in the early 1900s.
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Mark of the Lion
by Suzanne Middendorf Arruda
Still recovering from the trauma of the Great War, Jade del Cameron, a tough New Mexico rancher's daughter and former front-line ambulance driver, heads for Africa to help fulfill a man's dying wish, only to come face to face with murder and mystery.
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Murphy's Law : a Molly Murphy mystery
by Rhys Bowen
Fleeing a false accusation of murder in Ireland, Molly Murphy becomes involved in another murder case when the man who was harrassing her on the boat to America turns up dead also.
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Dying in the Wool
by Frances Brody
When the untimely disappearance of Master of the Mill Joshua Braithwaite disrupts the peaceful town of Bridgestead and his daughter's wedding plans, Kate Shackleton is tapped to discover the missing man's fate only to stumble on dangerous secrets.
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Death in Lacquer Red
by Jeanne M. Dams
In a delightful new mystery set in turn-of-the-century South Bend, Indiana, Hilda Johansson, a young Swedish immigrant working for the Studebaker family, is drawn into a perilous murder investigation when she stumbles upon the body of a woman who had recently returned from missionary work in China.
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Death at Wentwater Court
by Carola Dunn
During the post-war turbulence of 1920s England, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple shocks her family by getting a job writing, a job that leads her to Wentwater Court, a manor house full of jealousy and murder.
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Cocaine Blues : A Phryne Fisher Mystery
by Kerry Greenwood
Honorable Phryne Fisher decides it might be rather amusing to try her hand at being a lady detective in Melbourne, Australia. Almost immediately after she books into the Windsor Hotel, Phryne is embroiled in mystery: poisoned wives, cocaine smuggling rings, corrupt cops, and communism--not to mention erotic encounters with a beautiful Russian dancer.
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Murder on St. Mark's Place
by Victoria Thompson
In a novel set in turn-of-the-century New York, a midwife and a cop investigate the murder of a charity girl, who traded her favors for trinkets and ended up killed by one of her clients. .
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A Duty to the Dead
by Charles Todd
Bess Crawford, a nurse in World War I, promises Lieutenant Arthur Graham that she will deliver his dying request to his brother, a request that is treated with skepticism, leading Bess to carry it out herself, putting her own life at risk for Arthur's sake.
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Maisie Dobbs
by Jacqueline Winspear
In her first case, private detective Maisie Dobbs must investigate the reappearance of a dead man who turns up at a cooperative farm called the Retreat that caters to men who are recovering their health after World War I.
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A few more compelling historical mysteries featuring sleuthing teams:
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The Beekeeper's Apprentice, or, On the Segregation of the Queen
by Laurie R. King
A chance meeting with a Sussex beekeeper turns into a pivotal, personal transformation when fifteen-year-old Mary Russell discovers that the beekeeper is the reclusive, retired detective Sherlock Holmes, who soon takes on the role of mentor and teacher.
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Murder on the Mauretania
by Conrad Allen
During the Maiden voyage of the Mauretania, the apparently accidental death of a passenger is investigated George Porter Dillman and Genevieve Masefield, who reveal sinister layers and a possible motive for murder--twelve tons of gold bullion--aboard the ship.
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