The Playmaker
While working as an apprentice in a London theater company in 1597, fourteen-year-old Richard uncovers a mystery involving the disappearance of his father and a traitorous plot to overthrow Queen Elizabeth.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: theater, mystery and detective stories [X], historical fiction [X], mystery fiction [X], london (england), great britain
The True Prince
Newly apprenticed to Shakespeare's theater company, Richard and Kit are drawn into a series of crimes involving the members of Queen Elizabeth's court.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: shakespeare, william, theater, great britain, mystery and detective stories [X], historical fiction [X], mystery fiction [X], detective and mystery stories
The Falconer's Knot
Silvano and Chiara, teens sent to live in a friary and a nunnery in Renaissance Italy, are drawn to one another and dream of a future together, but when murders are committed in the friary, they must discover who is behind the crimes before they can realize their love.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 910
subjects: love, murder, mystery and detective stories [X], religious life, love stories, italy, historical fiction [X], mystery fiction [X], detective and mystery stories, homicide, romance fiction, mystery fiction
The Man Who Was Poe
In Providence, R.I., in 1848, Edgar Allan Poe reluctantly investigates the problems of eleven-year-old Edmund, whose family has mysteriously disappeared and whose story suggests a new Poe tale with a ghastly final twist.
FIC
year: 2067
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 600
subjects: poe, edgar allan, mystery and detective stories [X], historical fiction [X], mystery fiction [X], providence (r.i.), audiobooks
The Callender Papers
In nineteenth-century Massachusetts, orphaned Jean, employed to sort out the family papers of a reclusive artist, becomes curious about the mysterious, long-ago death of his wife and the subsequent disappearance of their young child.
FIC
year: 2000
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
subjects: orphans, mystery fiction [X], massachusetts, mystery and detective stories [X], historical fiction [X], detective and mystery stories
The Fire-raiser
Kitty Wix and her friends try to stop the arsonist who is terrifying their small New Zealand town.
FIC
year: 1992
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 620
subjects: arson, mystery and detective stories [X], mystery fiction [X], historical fiction [X], new zealand
Ghost Light On Graveyard Shoal
In the late nineteenth century, twelve-year-old Rhoda investigates her suspicion that a wrecker may be luring ships to their destruction on the Virginia barrier island where her father is keeper of a U.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 880
subjects: rescue work, lifesaving, shipwrecks, mystery and detective stories [X], historical fiction [X], eastern shore (md. and va.), mystery fiction [X]
Pagan's Vows
Follows the adventures of Pagan, squire to Lord Roland, through the years 1188 to 1189, as he accompanies his master, now determined to be a monk, to the French monastery of St.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 540
subjects: religious life, monasteries, monks, middle ages, historical fiction [X], france, mystery and detective stories [X], mystery fiction [X]
Dr. Frankenstein's Daughters
Giselle and Ingrid are the twin daughters of Doctor Victor Frankenstein, but they are very different people, and when they inherit his castle in the Orkney Islands, Giselle dreams of holding parties and inviting society--but Ingrid is fascinated by her father's forbidden experiments.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820
subjects: frankenstein, victor (fictitious character), human experimentation in medicine, monsters, twins, sisters, orkney (scotland), horror tales, detective and mystery stories, historical fiction [X], diaries, horror stories, mystery and detective stories [X], frankenstein, victor (fictional character), horror fiction, mystery fiction [X], horror fiction, mystery fiction, historical fiction
The Penalty
Sports reporter Paul Faustino reluctantly investigates the disappearance of a young soccer star from San Juan who has not been seen since he missed a winning penalty kick during a big game, and unknowingly the journalist becomes entangled in a world of slavery and the occult.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 810
subjects: mystery and detective stories [X], soccer, occult fiction, slavery, mystery fiction [X], south america, missing persons, journalists, vodou, soccer stories, voodooism, historical fiction [X], historical fiction
Ripper
Sent to do volunteer work at the Whitechapel Hospital in the east end of London in 1888, seventeen-year-old Abbie discovers the identity of Jack the Ripper.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: jack, homicide, mystery fiction [X], historical fiction [X], murder, mystery and detective stories [X], london (england), great britain
The Hidden Dagger
When a young boy in seventeenth-century England witnesses a lord's murder, he must find a way to reveal the killer before he becomes the next victim.
FIC
year: 1996
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 400
subjects: murder, mystery and detective stories [X], historical fiction [X], homicide, mystery fiction [X], great britain
The Star-spangled Secret
In 1814, as the War of 1812 threatens her Maryland home, thirteen-year-old Caroline sets out to discover the truth about the disappearance of her older brother.
FIC
year: 2001
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: brothers and sisters, mystery and detective stories [X], historical fiction [X], siblings, mystery fiction [X], maryland, united states, war of 1812
The Thieves Of Ostia
Flavia Gemina, a Roman sea captain's daughter, is about to become a detective.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
subjects: dogs, stealing, mystery and detective stories [X], historical fiction [X], rome, theft, audiobooks, pets, animals, mystery fiction [X]
The Charioteer Of Delphi
Flavia and her friends go to Rome to celebrate the Festival of Jupiter at Senator Cornix's town house, where they befriend the young charioteer, Scopas, and quickly find themselves embroiled in a campaign to sabotage one of the rival racing factions.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: chariot racing, race horses, horses, mystery fiction [X], rome, mystery and detective stories [X], historical fiction [X]