Crime Thru Time Library: H

Patricia Hagan (Non-series) Sheriff Luke Ballard Hampton, Alabama 1960s	Cry Me a River [2003]

Carolyn Haines (Non-series) Various settings and protagonists in the mid 20th C American deep south	Penumbra [2006] - Beautician and undertaker's assistant Jade Dupree, Drexel, Mississippi 1950s Fever Moon [2007] - Deputy Raymond Thibodeaux, New Iberia Parish, La., at the close of WWII

Kathryn Miller Haines Rosie Winter, out of work actress working part time for a lowbrow detective agency New York City during WW II, 1940s	The War Against Miss Winter [2007] The Winter of Her Discontent [2008] Winter in June [2009] When Winter Returns [2010]

Daniel Hall Martin Kemp, an archer 1340’s France / England Hundred Years War	Kemp: The Road to Crecy [1996] Kemp: Passage At Arms [1997]

John Hall 1 Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson Late Victorian England	Sherlock Holmes and the Boulevard Assassin [1998] Sherlock Holmes and the Disgraced Inspector [1998] The Travels of Sherlock Holmes [1998] Sherlock Holmes and the Telephone Murder Mystery [1999] Sherlock Holmes and the Hammerford Will [2000] Sherlock Holmes and the Abbey School Mystery [2001] Sherlock Holmes and the Adler Papers [2001] Sherlock Holmes at the Raffles Hotel [2008]

John Hall 2 Martin Byrd, gentleman and his earthy servant Clement England, mid 15th Century	Special Commission [1999]

John Hall 3 Freddie Darnborough, Man about town England 1920s	Death Of A Collector [2005]

Oakley M. Hall Ambrose Bierce, writer Tom Redmond, reporter 1870s San Francisco	Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades [1998] Ambrose Bierce and the Death of Kings [2002] Ambrose Bierce and the One-Eyed Jacks [2003] Ambrose Bierce and the Trey of Pearls [2004] Ambrose Bierce and the Ace of Shoots [2005]

Robert Lee Hall 1 Benjamin Franklin Inventor / Statesman 1700's London, England	Benjamin Franklin Takes the Case [1988] Benjamin Franklin and a Case of Christmas Murder [1990] Murder at Drury Lane [1992] Benjamin Franklin and a Case of Artful Murder[1994] Murder by the Waters [1995] London Blood [1997]

Robert Lee Hall 2 Sherlock Holmes Pastiche London, England 1903	Exit Sherlock Holmes [1977]

Robert Lee Hall 3 Herbert Munn, retired banker living in Mrs. Hudson’s old Baker Street rooms, and his neighbor Wigmore, aka Wiggins, ex-leader of Holmes’ old Baker Street Irregulars Edwardian London	The King Edward Plot [1980]

Robert Lee Hall 4 William Randolph Hearst San Simeon, California 1934	Murder at San Simeon [1988]

Winifred Halsey (Non-series) Daniel Whitting, captain of a mercenary company in the service of Cosimo d'Medici Florence, Italy 16th C	Murder in the Pitti Palace [2006] available as an Amazon short

Barbara Hambly Benjamin January, A Free Man of Color New Orleans, 1830s	A Free Man of Color [1997] Fever Season [1998] Graveyard Dust [1999] Sold Down the River [2000] Die Upon A Kiss [2001] Wet Grave [2002] Days of the Dead [2003] Dead Water [2004] Dead and Buried [2010]

Barbara Hambly 2 (Non-series) Marcus Silanus, Philosopher Rome, A.D. 116	Search the Seven Hills [1983] (aka The Quirinal Hill Affair)

Barbara Hamilton Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams, leader of the revolutionary Sons of Liberty (not yet President) Massachusetts Colony 1773	The Ninth Daughter [2009] Sup with the Devil [2011]

Denise Hamilton (Non-series) Lily Kessler, former stenographer and spy for the OSS 1949 Los Angeles CA	The Last Embrace [2008]

Sylvian Hamilton Sir Richard Straccan Former Crusader and trader in holy relics Early 13th Century England	The Bone Pedlar [2000] The Pendragon Banner [2001] The Glee Maiden [2004]

June Hampson Gangland crime/thrillers Daisy Lane, girlfriend and wife of criminals Gosport, England 1960s	Trust Nobody [2006] Broken Bodies [2007] Damaged Goods [2008] Fatal Cut [2009] Jail Bait [2010]

Wayne Hancock Katie and Pearl, small-town girls at the World’s Fair in St. Louis, MO 1904	30 Days in May: A Murder Mystery [2008]

Dana Hand (aka Will Howarth and Anne Matthews) Based on real life events Idaho lawman Joe Vincent, Sam Yup agent Lee Loi, and métis mountain guide Grace Sundown Idaho Territory and Pacific NW 1887	Deep Creek [2010]

Lauren Haney Lieutenant Bak Ancient Egypt reign of Queen Hatshepsut ca. 1503 to 1480 B.C	Right Hand of Amon [1997] A Face Turned Backward [1999] A Vile Justice [1999] Curse of Silence [2000] A Place of Darkness [2001] A Cruel Deceit [2002] Flesh of the God [2003] A Path of Shadows [2003]

Paul Harding (aka Paul Doherty - Series continues under Doherty) The Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan Brother Athelstan, Friar Sir John Cranston, Coroner 14th century London, England	The Nightingale Gallery [1991] The House of the Red Slayer [1992] Murder Most Holy [1992] The Anger of God [1993] By Murder's Bright Light [1994] The House of Crows [1995] The Assassin's Riddle [1996]

Michael Hardwick Sherlock Holmes pastiches Late 19th C England	Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes [1964] Private Life of Sherlock Holmes [1970] Prisoner of the Devil [1979] Sherlock Holmes My Life and Crimes [1984] The Private Life of Dr. Watson [1985] The Revenge of the Hound [1987] Nightbone [1989]

(Daniel) Elton Harmon (short stories) Harper, newpaper crime reporter South Carolina, Post-Civil War Reconstruction Era	The Chalk Town Train & Other Tales [2001]

Karen Harper Elizabeth Tudor, Queen of England Mid 16th century, London	The Poison Garden [1999] The Tidal Poole [2000] The Twylight Tower [2001] The Queene's Cure [2002] The Thorne Maze [2003] The Queene's Christmas [2003] The Fyre Mirror [2005] The Fatal Fashione [2005] The Hooded Hawke [2007]

Tom Harper (aka Edwin Thomas) Demetrios Askiates, "The unveiler of mysteries" Byzantium, 1096-98	Mosaic of Shadows [2004] Knights of the Cross [2005] Siege of Heaven [2006]

C. S. Harris (aka Candice Proctor) Viscount Sebastian St. Cyr Brilliant but dissolute young nobleman and veteran of the Napoleonic Wars London, 1811	What Angels Fear [2005] When Gods Die [2006] Why Mermaids Sing [2007] Where Serpents Sleep [2008] What Remains of Heaven [2009] Where Shadows Dance [2011] When Maidens Mourn [2012] What Darkness Brings [2013]

Fred Harris Okie Dunn, Law school drop out and newly appointed sheriff Vernon, Oklahoma 1930s	Coyote Revenge [1999] Easy Pickin's [2001]

Jana Harris Pearl Ryan, Town laundress and physician's assistant silver-mining town of Ruby City, Washington 1890s	The Pearl of Ruby City [1998]

Robert Harris Non-series historical thrillers in various settings	Enigma [1995] (1943 WW II England) Pompeii [2003] (AD 47 Roman Pomeii)

Cora Harrison Mara, a woman appointed by King Turlough Don O’Brien to be judge and lawgiver The Burren, on the western seaboard of Ireland early 16thC	My Lady Judge [2007] Michaelmas Tribute [2008] A Secret and Unlawful Killing [2008] The Sting of Justice [2009] Writ in Stone [2009] Eye of the Law [2010] Scales of Retribution [2011]

Ray Harrison Joseph Bragg, Police Sergeant James Morton, Constable Victorian England	Why Kill Arthur Potter [1983] (Variant Title: French Ordinary Murder) Death of a Honourable Member [1984] Death of a Dancing Lady [1985] Deathwatch [1985] Counterfeit of Murder [1987] Season for Death [1987] Harvest of Death [1988] Tincture of Death [1989] Sphere of Death [1990] Patently Murder [1991] Akin to Murder [1992] Murder in Petticoat Square [1993] Hallmark of Murder [1995] Murder by Design [1996] Facets of Murders [1997] Draught of Death [1998]

Carolyn Hart (Non-series) Please contact if you can provide more information Paris, France 1940s	Escape from Paris [1982]

Carolyn Hart (Non-series) Gretchen Grace Gilman a 13-year-old getting her start as a reporter Oklahoma, 1944 during WWII	Letter from Home [2003]

Edmund Hastie Sherlock Holmes short stories Victorian England	Sherlock Holmes and the Disappearing Prince [2000]

Patrick Hatten Idas, a successful merchant ancient Athens, Greece, during the golden Age of Pericles 5th Century B.C.	Champion of the Dead [2003]

George Egon Hatvary (Non-series) Auguste C. Dupin, detective Baltimore MD 1849	The Murder of Edgar Allan Poe [1997]

Diana Haviland Gaslight And Shadows Mysteries Amanda Whitney, high society reporter for the Ladies Gazette Ross Buchanan, private detective 1882 New York City	Death on the Ladies Mile [2006]

Simon Hawke (aka S L Hunter, J D Masters, Nicholas V Yermakov) Symington "Tuck" Smythe apprentice smith & actor Will Shakespeare, future playwright London, 1586-1592	A Mystery of Errors [2000] The Slaying of the Shrew [2001] Much Ado About Murder [2002] The Merchant of Vengeance [2003]

Ellen Hawkes & Peter Manso (Non-series) Virginia Woolf, writer England 1917	The Shadow of the Moth [1983]

Clare Langley-Hawthorne (See listing under "L" for Langley)

Channing Hayden (ebooks/short stories) Tales of the Fencing Master Villard St. Pierre D'Mongé Fencing Mastery, once the youngest of Jean La Fitte's pirate captains 1810 New Orleans	Matters of Honor [includes Vampyre in Satan's Soup / A Tale of Two Revolutions] The Minions of Greed

Tony Hays 1 Who's Who Dunit Mysteries Various famous people as detective and various settings	Murder in the Latin Quarter [1993] Jack Barnett & Ernest Hemingway in post WWI Paris Murder on the Twelfth Night [1993] William Shakespeare Globe Theater London 1602

Tony Hays 2 Malgwyn ap Cuneglas one armed scribe, a former warrior under King Arthur Cadbury Castle, Britain 450 AD - 525 AD	The Killing Way [2009] The Divine Sacrifice [2010] The Beloved Dead [2011]

Judith Healey Princess Alais Capet Sister to the king of France England, Early 13th C	The Canterbury Papers [2003] The Rebel Princess [2009]

Rachel Heath Fictionalization of the infamous real life "porthole murder" trial of 1948 England, South Africa and shipboard 1946-7	The Finest Type of English Womanhood [2009]

Peter J. Heck Mark Twain, Writer Wentworth Cabot, Secretary 19th Century Mississippi	Death on the Mississippi [1995] A Connecticut Yankee in Criminal Court [1996] The Prince and the Prosecutor [1997] Guilty Abroad [1999] Mysterious Strangler [2000] Tom's Lawyer [2001]

Keith Heller George Man, Parish watchman in 18th century London	Man's Illegal Life [1984] Man's Loving Family [1985] Man's Storm [1985]

Libby Fischer Hellmann (Non-Series) Samuel Bradley, Constable of Jerusalem's Landing Depression Era (1930s) Vermont	Set the Night on Fire [2010]

William Heffernan (Non-Series) Samuel Bradley, Constable of Jerusalem's Landing Depression Era (1930s) Vermont	Beulah Hill [2003]

Robert Hendrick Nathan Black, Private detective Nashville, TN 1916	The Doctor's Building [2006]

Jane Heritage Marcello D’Estari agent of the Republic of Venice Sicily, Italy late 13th C	Set Fire to Sicily [1997]

George Herman Leonardo Da Vinci, Artist Renaissance Milan, Italy	A Comedy of Murders [1994] The Tears of the Madonna [1996] The Florentine Mourners [2000] The Toys of War [2001]

Peg Herring Princess Elizabeth Tudor (future Elizabeth I as a teenager during her father's reign) and her friend Simon Maldon London, England 1540s	Her Highness' First Murder [2010]

Evelyn Hervey (aka H R F Keating) Miss Harriet Unwin, Governess England 1870s	The Governess [1983] The Man of Gold [1985] Into the Valley of Death [1986]

Frederick Highland Nikolai Faroun, Levantine French Syrian Police Inspector Damascus Syria 1930s	Night Falls on Damascus [2006]

Suzette A. Hill The Rev Francis Oughterard, Molehill, Surrey, England late 1950s	A Load of Old Bones [2005] Bones in the Belfry [2008] Bone Idle [2009]

Kathleen Hills John McIntire, retired military intelligence officer and newly appointed town constable St. Adele, Michigan (USA) 1950-51	Past Imperfect [2002] Hunter's Dance [2004] Witch Cradle [2006] The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies [2007]

John Buxton Hilton Detective-Constable Brunt Derbyshire England Victorian to Edwardian	Rescue from the Rose [1976] Gamekeeper's Gallows [1976] Dead-Nettle [1977] Mr Fred [1983] (USA title: Mr Fred's Leap) The Quiet Stranger [1985] Slickensides [1987]

William Hjortsberg 1 (Non-series) Harry Angel, small-time private eye and wounded WWII veteran New York City NY, USA 1950's	Falling Angel [1978]

William Hjortsberg 2 (Non-series) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Author and spiritualist and Harry Houdini, magician New York City NY, USA 1920's	Nevermore [1994]

Edward Hoch 1 (Short Story Collections - the author also has other, uncollected stories) Ben Snow, 19th century wanderer through the west often mistaken for Billy the Kid	The Ripper of Storyville and Other Ben Snow Tales [1997]

Edward Hoch 2 (Short Story Collection) Dr. Sam Hawthorne small-town doctor New England USA 1920s-1940s	Diagnosis: Impossible - The Problems of Dr. Sam Hawthorne [1996] More Things Impossible: The Second Casebook of Dr. Sam Hawthorne [forthcoming]

Steve Hockensmith Old Red Amlingmeyer, cowboy and Sherlock Holmes admirer Big Red Amlingmeyer, his brother and fellow ranch hand 1892 Montana	Holmes on the Range [2006] On the Wrong Track [2007] The Black Dove [2008] The Crack in the Lens [2009] World's Greatest Sleuth! [2011] Dear Mr. Holmes - [2011] - short stories

Ken Hodgson (Non-Series) Sheriff Sam Sinrod and County Coroner Bryce Whitlock Silver City, New Mexico 1943	Season of the Burning Souls [2006]

David Hoekenga Seamus Scott Weatherby physician, employed by King Henry VIII England, Ireland and France 1530	The Hampton Court Murders [2009]

Craig Holden (Non-Series) Charlie Taft, prosecutor and son of the former president Cincinnati, Ohio 1927 (story based upon real events)	The Jazz Bird [2003]

David Holland Reverend Tuckworth, Vicar of Bellminster Cathedral Inspector Myles, Bow Street Runner Bellminster, England 1833	The Devil in Bellminster [2002] The Devil's Acre [2003] The Devil's Game [2005]

Tom Holm J. D. Daugherty, ex-cop turned PI and his associate Hoolie Smith, a Cherokee Tulsa, Oklahoma, post-World War I	The Osage Rose [2008]

Sheri Holman (Non-Series) Father Felix Fabri, Dominican On pilgrimage from Germany to Mount Sinai, 15th C	A Stolen Tongue [1997]

Rupert Holmes 1 (Non-Series) Ray Sherwood, Jazz Musician San Francisco Bay, California 1940	Swing : A Mystery [2005]

Rupert Holmes 2 (Non-Series) K. O'Connor (we never learn her first name) young journalist 1970s Hollywood	Where the Truth Lies [2006]

Donald Honig Tom Maynard, US Army Investigator American West, Montana Territory 1870-1876	The Sword of General Englund [1996] The Ghost Of Major Pryor [1997]

Terry Hoover Steve Harlan, former newspaper reporter, now a PI Charlotte, North Carolina 1960s	Double Dead [2007]

Ronald Hopkins Johnny Dark, Private Investigator Boston & Cape Cod, MA and Stowe, VT 1945	Snowball in Hell [1999]

Ellen Horan Emma Cunningham, primary suspect and Henry Clinton, her attorney Based on real life murder of Dr. Harvey Burdell Manhattan, New York City 1857	31 Bond Street [2010]

Anthony Horowitz Dr Watson A a year after Holmes death. Boston, MA/ Wimbledon, England 1890 Amazon Author Page	The House of Silk [2011]

David R. Horwitz Ben Carey, ambitious young beat cop, head of a new police planning unit Washington DC 1957	Murder Bay [2008]

William Horwood and Helen Rappaport Emily Strauss, Newspaper reporter Chicago, IL 1890s	Dark Hearts of Chicago [2007] (reissued in 2008, with revisions, as City of Dark Hearts by James Conan)

Sydney Hosier Mrs. Hudson, housekeeper for Sherlock Holmes Late Victorian England	Elementary, Mrs. Hudson [1996] Murder, Mrs Hudson [1997] Most Baffling, Mrs. Hudson [1998] The Game's Afoot, Mrs Hudson [1998]

Roger Hudson 18-year-old Lysanias and his aging slave Sindron. Athens, Greece 461BC	Death Comes by Amphora [2008] Fraud Under the Akropolis (forthcoming)

Pip Vaughan-Hughes See listing under V for Vaughan

C. C. Humphreys Jack Absolute, rogue, duellist, charmer and Captain in the Light Dragoons "the 007 of the 1770s" 1759-70s London England and American Colonies	Jack Absolute [2004] The Blooding of Jack Absolute [2005] (prequel) Absolute Honor [2006]

Evan Hunter (Non-Series) (Ne Salvatore A Lombino, aka Curt Cannon, Hunt Collins, Ezra Hannon, Ed McBain, Richard Marsten) Retelling of the Lizzie Borden case 1890s Europe & US	Lizzie: A Novel [1984]

Janet Hutchings Anthologies of Historical Mysteries from Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine	Once Upon a Crime [1994] Once Upon a Crime II [1996]