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Robin Paige (aka Susan Wittig Albert & Bill Albert) Kathryn Ardleigh, Novelist Sir Charles Sheridan, Amateur Scientist England, Victorian Period	Death at Bishop's Keep [1994] Death at Gallow's Green [1995] Death at Daisy's Folly [1997] Death at Devil's Bridge [1998] Death at Rottingdean [1999] Death at Whitechapel [2000] Death at Epsom Downs [2001] Death at Dartmoor [2002] Death at Glamis Castle [2003] Death in Hyde Park [2004] Death At Blenheim Palace [2005] Death on the Lizard [2006]

Bernadette Pajer Dr. Benjamin Bradshaw, an engineering professor Seattle, 1901 Amazon Author Page	A Spark of Death [2011] Fatal Induction [2012]

Charles Palliser (Non-Series) Ned Cortine, historian Oxford England, 1882	The Unburied [1999]

William J. Palmer Wilkie Collins, Writer Charles Dickens, Writer Victorian London, England	The Detective and Mr. Dickens [1990] The Highwayman and Mr. Dickens [1992] The Hoydens and Mr. Dickens [1997] The Dons and Mr. Dickens [2000]

Orhan Pamuk (Non-Series) Black, a clerk Istanbul, Turkey 1590s	My Name Is Red [2001]

Ann Parker Inez Stannert, Saloonkeeper with a mysterious past "Silver fever" Leadville, Colorado 1879-1880s Amazon Author Page	Silver Lies [2003] Iron Ties [2006] Leaden Skies [2009] Mercury's Rise (November 2011)

I. J. Parker I J @ Amazon Akitada Sugawara, Ministry of Justice Kyo, Japan Heian period, early 11th C	Rashomon Gate [2002] The Hell Screen [2003] The Dragon Scroll [2005] (chronologically the first Akitada novel) Black Arrow [2006] Island of Exiles [2007] The Convict's Sword [2009] Various short stories at the author's website, including 2000 Shamus award winner "Akitada's First Case" Death and Cherry Blossoms [2002] available as an Amazon short The Masuda Affair [2010] Death on an Autumn River [2011] Kindle eBook

Jean-Francois Parot Nicolas le Floch, young Breton police recruit France, 1760s-1770s	The Chatelet Apprentice [2007] (1st English edition) The Man with the Lead Stomach [2008] The Phantom of the Rue Royale [2008] The Nicholas le Floch Affair [2009] The Saint-Florentin Murders [2010]

S.J. Parris Giordano Bruno, monk, poet, scientist and magician on the run from the Roman Inquisition, acting as an agent for Queen Elizabeth I Oxford, England 16th C	Heresy [2010] Prophecy [2011]

Owen Parry (aka Ralph Peters) Abel Jones, Ex-soldier and Federal Agent American Civil War	Faded Coat of Blue [1999] Shadows of Glory [2000] Call Each River Jordan [2001] Honor's Kingdom [2002] Bold Sons of Erin [2003] Rebels of Babylon [2006]

Ben Pastor Aelius Spartianus, former Roman soldier and currently historian to Emperor Diocletian Roman Empire 304 A.D.	The Water Thief [2007] The Fire Waker [2008]

Eliot Pattison Duncan McCallum, exiled Scots medical student On board a British convict ship and Colonial US, 1759-1760s	Bone Rattler [2007] Eye of the Raven [2009]

Barbara Paul The Opera Mysteries Recurring characters but different protagonists Enrico Caruso tenor, and Gerladine Farrar, soprano Metropolitan Opera NYC 1910-20	A Cadenza for Caruso [1984] - Caruso Prima Donna at Large [1985] - Farrar A Chorus of Detectives [1987] - Both, with other cast members "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Corpse" short story in CTT anthology (Farrar)

Paula Paul Dr. Alexandra Gladstone Female physician Victorian England	Symptoms of Death [2002] An Improper Death [2002] Half a Mind to Murder [2003]

Raymond Paul Lon Quincannon New York lawyer/sleuth Pre-Civil War USA 1835-1850s	The Thomas Street Horror [1982] The Tragedy at Tiverton [1984] The Bond Street Burlesque [1987] UK edition titled Murder by Gaslight

Rebecca Pawel Carlos Tejada Alonso y Léon, Sergeant in the Guardia Civil Revolutionary Madrid Spain 1939	Death of a Nationalist [2003] Law of Return [2004] Watcher In The Pine [2005] Summer Snow [2006]

David Peace 1 Red Riding Quartet Ultra-noir crime series set in and around Leeds in the shadow of the real-life Yorkshire Ripper murders. 1974-83	Nineteen Seventy Four [2000] Nineteen Seventy Seven [2001] Nineteen Eighty [2001] Nineteen Eighty Three [2003]

David Peace 2 The Tokyo Trilogy Stories based on real life crimes in post-WWII Japan Tokyo, Japan 1946-8	Tokyo Year Zero [2007] Occupied City [2009]

Caro Peacock (aka Gillian Linscott) Liberty Lane England and France 1830s	Death At Dawn [2007] (US Title: A Foreign Affair [2008]) Death of a Dancer [2008] (US Title: A Dangerous Affair [2009]) A Corpse in Shining Armour [2009]

Cynthia Peale (aka Nancy Zaroulis) Beacon Hill Mysteries Addington & Caroline Ames, Boston Brahmins Dr. John MacKenzie Boston 1890s	The Death of Colonel Mann [2000] Murder at Bertram's Bower [2001] The White Crow [2002]

Michael Pearce 1 Captain Gareth Owen aka The Mamur Zapt Welsh head of Cairo's secret police Egypt under British Rule 1908-WW I	The Return of the Carpet [1988] The Night of the Dog [1989] The Donkey-Vous [1990] The Men Behind [1991] The Girl In The Nile [1992] The Spoils of Egypt [1992] The Camel of Destruction [1993] The Snake Catcher's Daughter [1994] The Mingrelian Conspiracy [1995] The Fig Tree Murder [1997] The Last Cut [1998] The Death of an Effendi [1999] A Cold Touch of Ice [2000] The Face in the Cemetery [2001] The Point in the Market [2005] The Mark of the Pasha [2008]

Michael Pearce 2 Dmitri Kameron, Lawyer of Scottish-Russian descent 1890s Tsarist Russia	Dmitri and the Milk-Drinkers [1997] Dmitri and the One-legged Lady [1999]

Michael Pearce 3 Special Branch officer Seymour British embassies and Consulates of Europe in the early 1900s.	A Dead Man in Trieste [2004] A Dead Man In Istanbul [2005] A Dead Man in Athens [2006] A Dead Man in Tangier [2007] A Dead Man in Barcelona [2008] A Dead Man in Naples [2009]

Matthew Pearl 1 (Non-Series) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Oliver Wendell Holmes James Russell Lowell and publisher J.T. Fields 1865 Boston, MA	The Dante Club [2003]

Matthew Pearl 2 (Non-Series) Quentin Hobson Clark, a wealthy admirer of Edgar Allan Poe's and Auguste Duponte, purported model for C. Auguste Dupin, Poe's detective Paris, France & Baltimore MD, USA 1849	The Poe Shadow [2006]

Matthew Pearl 3 (Non-Series) James Osgood, of the firm Fields & Osgood, Charles Dickens's struggling American publisher Boston, MA, London and India 1870	The Last Dickens [2009]

Iain Pears 1 (Non-Series) Multiple Viewpoint Characters Oxford, England 1663	An Instance of the Fingerpost [1997]

Iain Pears 2 (Non-Series) Multiple Viewpoint Characters Various historical settings 1867 Venice, 1890s Paris and 1909 London	Stone's Fall [2009]

Gus Pelagatti (Non-Series) Assistant D.A. Tom Rossi based on a true murder scandal story Philadelphia, PA 1938	Wicked Wives [2008]

Sharon Kay Penman Justin De Quincy Illegitimate son of a bishop Late 12th C England Reign of Richard the Lionhearted	The Queen's Man [1996] Cruel as the Grave [1998] Dragon's Lair [2003] Prince Of Darkness [2005]

Stef Penney Historical Literary Thriller Ensemble cast of journalists, Hudson's Bay Company men, trappers, traders & townspeople 1867 Canada	The Tenderness of Wolves [2006]

Hugh Pentecost (Aka Judson Philips) (Non-series) Richard Cantwell 1860s New York City during the draft riots	The Assassins [1955]

Andrew Pepper Pyke - sometime Bow Street Runner, sometime crook Georgian London, England 1829-1840s	The Last Days of Newgate [2006] Revenge of Captain Paine [2007] Kill-Devil and Water [2008] The Detective Branch [2010]

Arturo Perez-Reverte 1 (Non-Series) Don Jaime Astarloa Madrid's greatest fencing master Madrid, Spain 1868	The Fencing Master [1999]

Arturo Perez-Reverte 2 Captain Alatriste, a swordsman for hire and Inigo Balboa, Alatriste's young page Spain in the 1620s	Captain Alatriste [2005] The Purity of Blood [2006] The Sun Over Breda [2007] The King's Gold [2008] The Caballero in the Yellow Doublet [2009] (US Title: The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet) Pirates of the Levant [2010]

Wilder Perkins Commander Bartholomew Hoare of His Majesty George III's Royal Navy partially disabled and almost voiceless early 1800s, England, Land/Sea	Hoare and the Matter of Treason [1998] Hoare and the Headless Captains [2000] Hoare and the Portsmouth Atrocities [2001]

Anne Perry 1 Thomas & Charlotte Pitt Mysteries Police Inspector & his wife Late Victorian London, England	The Cater Street Hangman [1979] Callander Square [1980] Paragon Walk [1981] Resurrection Row [1981] Rutland Place [1983] Bluegate Fields [1984] Death in the Devil's Acre [1985] Cardington Crescent [1987] Silence in Hanover Close [1988] Bethlehem Road [1990] Highgate Rise [1991] Belgrave Square [1992] Farriers' Lane [1993] The Hyde Park Headsman [1994] Traitor's Gate [1995] Pentecost Alley [1996] Ashworth Hall [1997] Brunswick Gardens [1998] Bedford Square [1999] Half Moon Street [2000] The Whitechapel Conspiracy [2001] Southampton Row [2002] Seven Dials [2003] Long Spoon Lane [2005] Buckingham Palace Gardens [2008] Betrayal at Lisson Grove [2010] -Treason at Lisson Grove Dorchester Terrace [2011]

Anne Perry 2 William Monk, Private Investigaror Hester Latterly, Nurse Late Victorian London, England	The Face of a Stranger [1990] A Dangerous Mourning [1991] Defend and Betray [1992] A Sudden Fearful Death [1993] The Sins of the Wolf [1994] Cain his Brother [1995] Weighed in the Balance [1996] The Silent Cry [1997] A Breach of Promise [1998] (aka The Whited Sepulchres) The Twisted Root [1999] Slaves of Obsession [2000] Death of a Stranger [2002] The Shifting Tide [2004] Dark Assassin [2006] Execution Dock [2009] 17. Acceptable Loss [2011] 18. A Sunless Sea [2012]

Anne Perry 3 (editor) (Non-Series)	Much Ado About Murder: All-New Shakespeare-Inspired Mystery Stories [2002]

Anne Perry 4 A planned quintet of stories set against the background of WW I England 1914-1918	No Graves As Yet [2003] Shoulder the Sky [2004] Angels in the Gloom [2005] At Some Disputed Barricade [2006] We Shall Not Sleep [2007]

Anne Perry 5 (editor) (Non-Series) Anthology of stories Featuring characters from the stories of Charles Dickens	Death by Dickens [2004]

Anne Perry 6 Series of novellas set at Christmas, and featuring secondary characters from Anne Perry's other series	A Christmas Journey [2003] A Christmas Visitor [2004] A Christmas Guest [2005] A Christmas Secret [2006] A Christmas Beginning [2007] A Christmas Grace [2008] Anne Perry's Christmas Mysteries: Two Holiday Novels [2008] (A Christmas Guest / A Christmas Secret) A Christmas Promise [2009] Silent Nights: Two Victorian Christmas Mysteries [2009] (A Christmas Beginning / A Christmas Grace) Christmas Vigil: Two Victorian Holiday Mysteries [2011] (A Christmas Promise / A Christmas Odyssey) A Christmas Homecoming [2011] A Christmas Garland [2012]

Anne Perry 7 (Non-Series) Historical thriller Celie, laundress and member of plot to rescue King Louis XVI revolutionary Paris, France 1793	The One Thing More [2000]

Anne Perry 8 (editor) (Non-Series) Anthology of mystery and crime stories inspired by and based on biblical tales	Thou Shalt Not Kill: Biblical Mystery Stories [2005]

Anne Perry 9 (Non-Series) Anna Zarides, posing as a eunuch to prove her brother innocent of the murder he is imprisoned for Byzantium 1272-3	The Sheen on the Silk [2010]

Elizabeth Peters (aka Barbara Mertz, Barbara Michaels) Amelia Peabody Archaeologist/Detective Late 19th C - early 20th C Egypt	Crocodile on the Sandbank [1975] The Curse of the Pharoahs [1981] The Mummy Case [1985] Lion in the Valley [1986] The Deeds of the Disturber [1988] The Last Camel Died at Noon [1991] The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog [1992] The Hippopotamus Pool [1996] Seeing A Large Cat [1997] The Ape Who Guards the Balance [1998] The Falcon at the Portal [1999] Thunder in the Sky [2000] The Lord of the Silent [2001] The Golden One [2002] Children of the Storm [2003] Amelia Peabody's Egypt (non-fiction) [2003] Guardian of the Horizon [2004] The Serpent on the Crown [2005] Tomb of the Golden Bird [2006] A River in the Sky [2010]

Ellis Peters Brother Cadfael Herbalist / Monk 12th C Shrewsbury England	A Morbid Taste for Bones [1977] One Corpse Too Many [1979] Monk's Hood [1980] St. Peter's Fair [1981] The Leper of St. Giles [1981] The Virgin in the Ice [1982] The Sanctuary Sparrow [1982] The Devil's Novice [1983] Dead Man's Ransom [1984] The Pilgrim of Hate [1984] An Excellent Mystery [1985] The Raven in the Foregate [1986] The Rose Rent [1986] The Hermit of Eyton Forest [1987] The Confession of Brother Haluin [1988] The Heretic's Apprentice [1989] The Potter's Field [1989] The Summer of the Danes [1991] The Holy Thief [1992] Brother Cadfael's Penance [1994] A Rare Benedictine (short stories) [1994]

Glen Peters Joan D'Silva a young widow living in post-independence Calcutta India 1960	Mrs D’Silva’s Detective Instincts and the Shaitan of Calcutta [2009]

Audrey Peterson Anne Hathaway Shakespeare wife to the playwright Elizabethan Stratford, England 16th C	Murder In Stratford [2005]

Jerry Peterson Sheriff James "Cactus" Early Riley County, Kansas 1949	Early's Fall [2009]

T.W. (Theodore W.) Pietsch (Non-Series) Carl Linnaeus, Swedish botanist and zoologist Sweden, England and Amsterdam 1729-1730s Based on real-life events	The Curious Death of Peter Artedi: A Mystery in the History of Science [2010]

John Pilkington 1 Thomas Finbow, falconer 16th Century Elizabethan London & Berkshire	The Ruffler's Child [2002] A Ruinous Wind [2003] The Ramage Hawk [2004] The Mapmaker's Daughter [2005] The Maiden Bell [2005] The Jingler's Luck [2006] The Muscovy Chain [2007]

John Pilkington 2 Betsy Brand, actress Restoration London after the Great Fire 1670s	After the Fire [2010]

Paul A. Pines Pablo Waitz, Jazz club owner New York City's Lower East Side, 1970's	The Tin Angel [2008]

Stefanie Pintoff Detective Simon Ziele Criminologist Alistair Sinclair New York City and upstate Westchester NY 1905-6	In the Shadow of Gotham [2009] A Curtain Falls [2010]

David Pirie Arthur Conan Doyle Dr. Joseph Bell (real life inspiration for Holmes) 1878 Edinburgh Scotland	The Patient's Eyes: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes [2001] The Night Calls [2003] The Dark Water [2004]

Rosemary Poole-Carter (Non-Series) Isabelle Ross Paul Delahoussaye, journalist Post-Civil War American South	What Remains [2002]

Dawn Aldridge Poore Miss Sydney Regency Mysteries Miss Roxanne Sydney daughter of a classical scholar and amateur detective in the world of art and artifact theft Regency London, Brighton, and Egypt	The Brighton Burglar [1992] The Secret Scroll [1993] The Cairo Cats [1994] The Mummy's Mirror [1995]

Barbara Pope (Non-series) Judge Bernard Martin and Inspector Albert Franc Aix-en-Provence, France 1885	Cezanne's Quarry [2008]

Melville Davisson Post (Short stories) "Father of the historical mystery" to many, for stories featuring West Virginia backwoodsman Uncle Abner, during the presidency of Thomas Jefferson	Uncle Abner, Master of Mysteries [1918] The Methods of Uncle Abner [1974] The Complete Uncle Abner [1977] Since there may be other historicals among his mystery stories I'm unaware of, you may wish to check a more complete bibliography here.

Jeremy Potter (Non-Series) Standalones mostly based on real life historical mysteries England, various settings	A Trail of Blood [1970] The Princes in the Tower 15thC Death in the Forest [1977] Queen Matilda of England investigates not based on a real historical mystery 11thC The Primrose Hill Murder [1992] Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey 1678 The Mystery of the Campden Wonder [1995] disappearance of William Harrison 1660

Deborah Powell Hollis Carpenter, Lesbian crime reporter Houston TX USA 1936	Houston Town [1992] Bayou City Secrets [1992]

Bill Pronzini John Quincannon, Secret Service Agent then Private Detective and Sabina Carpenter, former Pinkerton Agent San Francisco CA USA 1890s	Quincannon [1985] Beyond the Grave [1986] (with Marcia Muller - parallel stories) Carpenter and Quincannon [1998] (short stories) Burgade's Crossing [2004] Quincannon's Game [2005] (4 short stories)

Nina Coombs Pykare Kate Ketterling, Actress Archie Barrington, Viscount Regency Era - England	Death Comes for Desdemona [1999] Death Rides a Pink Horse [2001]