I’ve listed the historical mysteries by century.
1st Century
- Davis, Lindsey, Alexandria
12th Century
- Franklin, Ariana, Grave Goods, Mistress of the Art of Death, A Murderous Procession, The Serpent’s Tale
16th Century
- Sansom, C. J., Dark Fire, Dissolution, Heartstone, Lamentation, Revelation, Sovereign
17th Century
- Bayard, Louis, The School of Night
- Pötzsch, Oliver, The Beggar King
- Rock, Judith, The Eloquence of Blood, A Plague of Lies, 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, 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, The Fatal Flame, The Gods of Gotham, Seven for a Secret
- Gardner, John, Moriarty
- Gerritsen, Tess, The Bone Garden
- Gray, Juliana, A Most Extraordinary Pursuit
- Grecian, Alex, The Yard
- Horowitz, Anthony, Moriarty
- 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, Dark Road to Darjeeling, A Treacherous Curse, Twelfth Night
- Shepherd, Lynn, A Fatal Likeness, Murder at Mansfield Park
- White, Jenny, The Abyssinian Proof, The Winter Thief
20th Century (first half)
- Beukes, Lauren, The Shining Girls
- Bowen, Rhys, The Edge of Dreams, The Ghost of Christmas Past, On Her Majesty’s Frightfully Secret Service
- Bradley, Alan, As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust, The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches, I Am Half-Sick with Shadows, A Red Herring Without Mustard, Speaking From Among the Bones, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew’d
- Fowler, Christopher, Full Dark House
- Franklin, Ariana, City of Shadows
- Greenwood, Kerry, Murder in the Dark, Raisins and Almonds, 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, Dandy Gilver and a Deadly Measure of Brimstone, 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, Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death
- St. James, Simone, The Broken Girls, The Haunting of Maddy Clare, An Inquiry into Love and Death, Lost Among the Living, The Other Side of Midnight, Silence for the Dead
- Speller, Elizabeth, The Return of Captain John Emmett, The Strange Fate of Kitty Easton
- Stewart, Amy, Girl Waits with Gun, Lady Cop Makes Trouble
- Vyleta, Daniel, The Quiet Twin
- Winspear, Jacqueline, Birds of a Feather
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