I’ve listed the historical mysteries by century.
1st Century
- Davis, Lindsey, Alexandria
12th Century
- Franklin, Ariana, Grave Goods
- Franklin, Ariana, A Murderous Procession
- Franklin, Ariana, The Serpent’s Tale
16th Century
- Sansom, C. J., Dark Fire
- Sansom, C. J., Dissolution
- Sansom, C. J., Heartstone
- Sansom, C. J., Lamentation
- Sansom, C. J., Revelation
- Sansom, C. J., Sovereign
17th Century
- Bayard, Louis, The School of Night
- Pötzsch, Oliver, The Beggar King
- Rock, Judith, The Eloquence of Blood
- Rock, Judith, A Plague of Lies
- Rock, Judith, The Rhetoric of Death
18th Century
- Ekbäck, Cecilia, Wolf Winter
- Hodgson, Antonia, The Devil in the Marshalsea
19th Century
- Akunin, Boris, Special Assignments: The Further Adventures of Erast Fandorin
- Atwood, Margaret, Alias Grace
- Bayard, Louis, Mr. Timothy
- Bayard, Louis, The Pale Blue Eye
- Dickinson, David, Death on the Nevskii Prospekt
- Eastland, Sam, Eye of the Red Tsar
- Ekbäck, Cecilia, In the Month of the Midnight Sun
- Faye, Lyndsay, Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson
- Faye, Lyndsay, The Fatal Flame
- Faye, Lyndsay, The Gods of Gotham
- Faye, Lynday, Seven for a Secret
- Gardner, John, Moriarty
- Gerritsen, Tess, The Bone Garden
- Grecian, Alex, The Yard
- Izner, Claude, Murder on the Eiffel Tower
- James, P. D., Death Comes to Pemberly
- McCrumb, Sharon, The Ballad of Tom Dooley
- Palliser, Charles, Rustication
- Pears, Iain, Stone’s Fall
- Raybourn, Deanna, The Dark Inquiry
- Raybourn, Deanna, Dark Road to Darjeeling
- Raybourn, Deanna, A Treacherous Curse
- Raybourn, Deanne, Twelfth Night
- Shepherd, Lynn, A Fatal Likeness
- Shepherd, Lynn, Murder at Mansfield Park
- White, Jenny, The Abyssinian Proof
- White, Jenny, The Winter Thief
20th Century (first half)
- Beukes, Lauren, The Shining Girls
- Bowen, Rhys, The Ghost of Christmas Past
- Bowen, Rhys, On Her Majesty’s Frightfully Secret Service
- Bradley, Alan, As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
- Bradley, Alan, The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches
- Bradley, Alan, I Am Half-Sick with Shadows
- Bradley, Alan, A Red Herring Without Mustard
- Bradley, Alan, Speaking From Among the Bones
- Bradley, Alan, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
- Bradley, Alan, Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew’d
- Fowler, Christopher, Full Dark House
- Franklin, Ariana, City of Shadows
- Greenwood, Kerry, Murder in the Dark
- Greenwood, Kerry, Raisins and Almonds
- Greenwood, Kerry, Unnatural Habits
- Hannah, Sophie, The Monogram Murders
- King, Laurie, R., The Bones of Paris
- Lawhon, Ariel, The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress
- McKinty, Adrian, The Sun Is God
- McPherson, Catriona, Dandy Gilver and a Bothersome Number of Corpses
- McPherson, Catriona, Dandy Gilver and a Deadly Measure of Brimstone
- McPherson, Catriona, The Reek of Red Herrings
- Mills, Mark, The Information Officer
- Mina, Denise, The Long Drop
- Pearce, Michael, A Dead Man in Athens
- Powell, Laura, The Unforgotten
- Runcie, James, Sidney Chambers and the Dangers of Temptation
- Runcie, James, Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death
- St. James, Simone, The Broken Girls
- St. James, Simone, The Haunting of Maddy Clare
- St. James, Simone, An Inquiry into Love and Death
- St. James, Simone, Lost Among the Living
- St. James, Simone, The Other Side of Midnight
- St. James, Simone, Silence for the Dead
- Speller, Elizabeth, The Return of Captain John Emmett
- Speller, Elizabeth, The Strange Fate of Kitty Easton
- Stewart, Amy, Girl Waits with Gun
- Stewart, Amy, Lady Cop Makes Trouble
- Vyleta, Daniel, The Quiet Twin
- Winspear, Jacqueline, Birds of a Feather
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