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Sarah D'Almeida
(Aka Sarah Hoyt)

Musketeer Mysteries
D'Artagnan and the famous
Three Musketeers: Athos,
Porthos, and Aramis
France 17th century

Death of a Musketeer [2006]
The Musketeer's Seamstress [2007]
The Musketeer's Apprentice [2007]
A Death in Gascony [2008]

Didier Daeninckx
(site is in French)
(Non-Series)

René Griffon,
Private Detective
France 1920

A Very Profitable War [1995]

Stephane Daimlen-Vols et al.
(Non-Series)

Lisette
Sister-in-law to King Louis XIV
(aka The Sun King)
France 1676

Hour of the Wolves [2002]
(based upon The Poisons Affair)

Sandra Dallas
(Non-Series)

Nora Bondurant, heiress
Natchez, Mississippi, 1933

New Mercies [2006]

Hilda Johansson
A young Swedish emigree servant
South Bend, Indiana, 1900-1904

Death in Lacquer Red [1999]
The Red, White, and Blue Murders [2000]
Green Grow the Victims [2001]
Silence is Golden [2002]
Crimson Snow [2005]
Indigo Christmas [2008]

Diane Davidson

Sir Thams Cheyney
Based on a real life murder
from Holinshed's chronicle
dramatized as Arden of Faversham
Kent, England mid 16th Century

Feversham [1969]

David Stuart Davies 1

Various Sherlock Holmes Pastiches
(Veiled Detective involves the
young Holmes' start in London
Victorian England)

Sherlock Holmes: The Game's Afoot [1991]
Sherlock Holmes and the
  Hentzau Affair [1991]
The Tangled Skein [1995]
The Scroll of the Dead [1998]
The Shadow of the Rat [1999]
The Veiled Detective [2004]

David Stuart Davies 2

John Hawke, aka Johnny One Eye
Private investigator,
invalided out of the army after
a shooting accident
London during the Blitz 1940

Forests of the Night [2005]
Without Conscience [2008]

Martin Davies

Mrs. Hudson
Housekeeper for Sherlock Holmes
Victorian England

Mrs. Hudson And The Case
  Of The Spirits' Curse [2004]
Mrs. Hudson and the Malabar Rose [2005]

J. Madison Davis 1
(Non-Series)

Colonel Max-Baldur von Prokofsk,
German combat hero
Byelorussia, 1944

The Murder of Frau Schutz [1989]

J. Madison Davis 2
(Non-Series)

Alfred Hitchcock, filmmaker
Chess Slattery, retired LAPD officer
Los Angeles, California 1957
(while filming Vertigo)

The Vertigo Murders: Alfred Hitchcock Mystery [2000]

Marcus Didius Falco
Private Investigator
Ancient Rome, Italy
1st Century A.D.

The Silver Pigs [1989]
Shadows in Bronze [1990]
Venus in Copper [1991]
The Iron Hand of Mars [1992]
Poseidon's Gold [1993]
Last Act in Palmyra [1994]
Time to Depart [1995]
A Dying Light in Corduba [1996]
Three Hands in the Fountain [1997]
Two for the Lions [1998]
One Virgin Too Many [1999]
Ode to a Banker [2000]
A Body in the Bathhouse [2001]
The Jupiter Myth [2002]
The Accusers [2003]
Scandal Takes A Holiday [2004]
See Delphi and Die [2005]
Saturnalia [2007]

Lindsey Davis 2
(Non-Series)

Caenis, mistress to
the Emperor Vespasian
Rome, 1st century A.D.

The Course of Honor [1998]

Dianne Day 1

Fremont Jones
San Francisco
early 1900s

The Strange Files of Fremont Jones [1995]
Fire and Fog [1996]
The Bohemian Murders [1997]
Emperor Norton's Ghost [1998]
Death Train to Boston [1999]
Beacon Street Mourning [2000]

Dianne Day 2
(Non-Series)

Nurse Clara Barton
US Civil War 1863

Cut to the Heart [2002]

Michelle de Kretser
(Non-Series)

Sam Obeysekere, public prosecutor
and admirer of Christie, Holmes, et al
Sri Lanka in the years before its
independence in 1948 while still
the British Indian colony of Ceylon

The Hamilton Case [2004]

Lillian De La Torre
(All short story collections)

Dr. Samuel Johnson
lexicographer and author
James Boswell, his friend
and biographer
18th Century England

Dr Sam Johnson, Detector [1946]
The Detections of Dr Sam Johnson [1960]
The Return of Dr Sam Johnson, Detector [1984]
The Exploits of Dr Sam Johnson, Detector [1987]

O'Neil De Noux
(Short story collection)

Lucien Caye, private-eye
New Orleans 1940s

New Orleans Confidential [2005]
Friscoville - Lucien Caye story
   available free online

Guilty of Dust and Sin - Lucien Caye story
   available as an Amazon short
Maria's Hand - Det. Jacques Dugas story
   available as an Amazon short

William DeAndrea 1

Lobo Black, Lawman
and Quinn Booker, Novelist
Wyoming USA 1890s

Written in Fire [1995]
The Fatal Elixir [1997]

William DeAndrea 2
(Non-Series)

NYC Police Commissioner
Theodore Roosevelt
and Captain Ozias Herkimer
New York City, NY 1890s

The Lunatic Fringe: A Novel Wherein Theodore Roosevelt Meets the Pink Angel [1980]

Jim DeFelice

Jake Gibbs, Patriot Spy
Revolutionary America 1770s

The Iron Chain [1995]
The Silver Bullet [1995]
The Golden Flask [1996]

Arnaud Delalande
(Non-Series)

Pietro Viravolta,
aka The Black Orchid
a dashing young adventurer
Venice, Italy 1756

The Dante Trap [2007]

Sandy Dengler
(Non-Series)

Gar, Shaman
of the Neanderthal
Real People tribe
Pleistocene France
Approximately 35,000 B.C.

Hyenas [1998]

Geoffrey Chaucer, Poet
England, late 14th C

Murder on the Canterbury Pilgrimage [1998]
The Legend of Good Women [2003]
Lord Byron and the Chasseur Ghost - Non-series
   historical mystery available free online

Forrest DeVoe Jr.
(aka Max Phillips)

Jack Mallory and
Laura Morse, espionage agents
Various settings 1960s

Into the Volcano [2006]
Eye of the Archangel [2007]

Michael Dibdin 1
(Non-Series)

Sherlock Holmes
Dr. Watson
London, England 1888

The Last Sherlock Holmes Story [1978]

Michael Dibdin 2
(Non-Series)

Robert Browning, Poet
Elizabeth Barrett, Poet
Robert Booth, Expatriate
Florence,1855

A Rich Full Death [1986]

David Dickinson

Lord Francis Powerscourt
Irish peer with a shadowy
history of espionage
1890s-early 1900s Victorian
& Edwardian England

Goodnight Sweet Prince [2002]
Death and the Jubilee [2002]
Death of an Old Master [2004]
Death of a Chancellor [2005]
Death Called to the Bar [2006]
Death on the Nevskii Prospekt [2007]
Death on the Holy Mountain [2008]

William Diehl
(Non-Series)

Zeke Bannon, policeman
1940s Los Angeles

Eureka [2002]

William Dietrich

Ethan Gage, ex-patriot
American in France,
former assistant to Ben Franklin
traveling with Napoleon Bonaparte
in Egypt 1798-99

Napoleon's Pyramids [2007]
The Rosetta Key [2008]

June Dixon & Donald Monat

Sherlock Holmes Pastiche
Victorian London

The Merchant of Death [2008]

Hugh Corbett
Spy for King Edward I
England,(1272 - 1307)

Satan in St. Mary's [1986]
The Crown in Darkness [1988]
Spy in Chancery [1988]
The Angel of Death [1989]
The Prince of Darkness [1992]
Murder Wears a Cowl [1992]
The Assassin in the Greenwood [1993]
The Song of a Dark Angel [1994]
Satan's Fire [1995]
The Devil's Hunt [1996]
The Demon Archer [1999]
The Treason of Ghosts [2000]
Corpse Candle [2001]
The Magician's Death [2004]
The Waxman Murders [2006]
Nightshade [2008]

P.C. Doherty 2

Matthew Jankyn, Soldier
England, 1461 - 1483

The Whyte Hart [1988]
The Serpent Among the Lilies [1990]
Dove Amongst the Hawks [1990]

P.C. Doherty 3

The Canterbury Tale Mysteries
Nicholas Chirke, Lawyer
14th Century England

An Ancient Evil [1993]
A Tapestry of Murders [1994]
A Tournament of Murders [1995]
Ghostly Murders [1997]
The Hangman's Hymn [2002]
A Haunt of Murder [2003]

P.C. Doherty 4

Egyptian Mystery Series
Amerotke, Chief Judge of Egypt
Egypt in 1479 B.C.E.

Mask of Ra [1998]
The Horus Killings [1999]
Anubis Slayings [2000]
The Slayers of Seth [2001]
The Assassins of Isis [2004]
The Poisoner of Ptah [2007]
Spies of Sobeck [2008]

P.C. Doherty 5
(See
Anna Apostolou for the beginning of the series)

Alexander the Great Series
Alexander the Great
Telamon, friend and physician
334 B.C. Greece

The Godless Man [2002]
The Gates of Hell [2003]

P.C. Doherty 6
(See
Paul Harding for the beginning of the series)

The Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan
Brother Athelstan, Friar
Sir John Cranston, Coroner
14th century London, England

The Devil's Domain [1998]
The Field of Blood [1999]
The House of Shadows [2003]

P.C. Doherty 7

Claudia, agente in rebus politicis`
(i.e. spy) for Helena, mother of
the Emperor Constantine
Roman Empire 313-314 C.E.

Murder Imperial [2003]
The Song of the Gladiator [2004]
The Queen of the Night [2006]
Murder's Immortal Mask [2008]

P.C. Doherty 8

Mahu, former Chief of Police
and Keeper of the Secrets of the Heart Planned trilogy set during the
reign of Akenhaten
14th century BC Egypt

An Evil Spirit Out of the West [2004]
The Season of the Hyaena [2005]
The Year of the Cobra [2006]

P.C. Doherty 9

Mathilde of Westminster
physician and former lady-in-waiting
to Edward II's consort Isabella
London England, 1308-1322

The Cup of Ghosts [2005]
The Poison Maiden [2007]

P.C. Doherty - Misc

Miscellaneous standalones
mostly based upon real life
historical mysteries

The Death of a King [1985]
   (Death of Edward II)
The Fate of the Princes [1990]
   (Princes in the Tower/Richard III)
The Masked Man [1991]
   (The Man in the Iron Mask)
The Plague Lord [2002]
   (Marco Polo)
Domina [2002]
   (Ex-gladiator Parmenon, Roman Empire)
The Death of the Red King [2006]
   (Anselm and the death of William Rufus)

Freedman Centurion
Marco Claudianus Secundus
Rome & Judea 1st C AD

The Centurion [2007]

David Donachie

The Privateersman Mysteries
Harry Ludlow, Royal Navy officer
turned privateer
Mediterranean during the
Napoleonic Wars Late 18th C

The Devil's Own Luck [1991]
The Dying Trade [1992]
A Hanging Matter [1994]
An Element of Chance [1994]
The Scent of Betrayal [1996]
A Game of Bones [1997]

Aristotle
Philosopher and teacher
Ancient Greece 332-330 B.C.

Aristotle Detective (short stories) [1978]
Aristotle and the Fatal Javelin [1980]
  short story published in Mystery Guild Anthology Aristotle and Poetic Justice [2002]
The Secrets of Life [2003]
Aristotle and the Ring of Bronze [2003]   publ. in Italy, not yet avail. in English
Poison in Athens [2004]
Mysteries in Eleusis [2005]

Irene Adler Series
Irene Adler Victorian diva
Sherlock Holmes, detective
Victorian England

Good Night, Mr. Holmes [1990]
Good Morning, Irene [1990]
   (re-issued as The Adventuress)
Irene at Large [1992]
   (re-issued as Soul of Steel)
Irene's Last Waltz [1994]
   (re-issued as Another Scandal in Bohemia)
Chapel Noir [2001]
Castle Rouge [2002]
Femme Fatale [2003]
Spider Dance [2004]
A Soul of Steel [2006]

Carole Nelson Douglas 2 (editor)
(Non-Series)
White House Pet Detectives (anthology) [2002]

R. S. (Ruth) Downie

Gaius Petreius Ruso,
Roman Army Medical Officer
Tilla, a slave girl
Roman Britain, late 1st C AD

Ruso and the Disappearing Dancing
  Girls [2006]
  (US Edition: Medicus: A Novel of
  the Roman Empire)

Ruso and the Demented Doctor [2008]
  (US Edition: Terra Incognita)

David Downing
((Non-Series)

Historical thrillers
John Russell, ex-patriate
British journalist
Berlin, Germany 1939

Zoo Station [2007]
Silesian Station [2008]

Sybil Downing
((Non-Series)

Liz O’Brien, reporter
for the Denver Post
Colorado 1922

The Binding Oath [2005]

Nick Drake

Rai Rahotep,
the youngest chief detective
in the Thebes division
Egypt 14th C BC

Nefertiti: The Book of the Dead [2006]
Tutankhamun [2008]

Joan Druett

Wiki Coffin, half Maori,
half Salem Yankee seaman
Various locations on shipboard and land 1830s

A Watery Grave: A Mystery [2004]
Shark Island [2005]
Run Afoul [2006]
Deadly Shoals [2007]

Peter Duchin
& John Morgan Wilson

Philip Damon, Bandleader
1963 San Francisco

Blue Moon [2002]
Good Morning, Heartache [2003]

Nicholas Segalla,
Immortal investigator of various
real-life historical mysteries
Based loosely on the legendary
Count of St. Germain

A Time for the Death of a King [1995]
    -1567 Lord Darnley's murder
The Prince Lost to Time [1996]
    -1815 Death of the Dauphin
The Time of Murder at Mayerling [1996]
    -1899 Death of Hapsburg Prince Rudolph
In the Time of the Poisoned Queen [1998]
    -1558 Poisoning of "Bloody" Mary Tudor

Daisy Gumm Majesty,
medium to the rich and famous
Pasadena California 1920s

Strong Spirits [2003]
Fine Spirits [2003]
High Spirits [2008]

Mercy Allcutt, Boston Brahmin
and assistant to ex-cop
PI Ernest Templeton
Hollywood California 1926

Lost Among the Angels [2006]

The Hon. Daisy Dalrymple,
Journalist
Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher
of Scotland Yard
1920's Britain and USA

Death at Wentwater Court [1994]
The Winter Garden Mystery [1995]
Requiem for a Mezzo [1996]
Murder on the Flying Scotsman [1997]
Damsel in Distress [1997]
Dead in the Water [1998]
Styx and Stones [1999]
Rattle His Bones [2000]
To Davy Jones Below [2001]
The Case of the Murdered Muckraker [2002]
Mistletoe and Murder [2002]
Die Laughing [2003]
A Mourning Wedding [2004]
Fall of a Philanderer [2005]
Gunpowder Plot [2006]
The Bloody Tower [2007]
Black Ship [2008]
Short Stories:
"Unhappy Medium" & "Storm in a Tea Shoppe" Available for free download through a link at Carola Dunn's website.

John Dunning
(Non-Series)

Jack Dulaney, novelist
East Coast,USA, 1942
During World War II

Two O'Clock, Eastern Wartime [2001]

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