Crime Thru Time's Authors M List

Anna MacLean (aka Jeanne Mackin) Louisa May Alcott, Writer and amateur sleuth Late 19th Century USA	Louisa and the Missing Heiress [2004] Louisa and the Country Bachelor [2005] Louisa and the Crystal Gazer [2006]

Shona MacLean Alexander Seaton, School master and disgraced minister Banff, Scotland 1620s	The Redemption of Alexander Seaton [2006]

Mary Anne Madden Cass Costello, newspaper reporter Iowa City, Iowa 1972	A Campus Death [2008]

Eddie Maguire Sherlock Holmes Pastiches Victorian England	Strange Affair At Glastonbury [1999] Sherlock Holmes and the Tandridge Hall Murder: And Other Stories [2001] Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Mission [2005]

Mary Maher (Non-Series) Tom Martin, ex-seminarian reporter for the Chicago Tribune Chicago IL, USA 1889 Based on a real life murder	The Devil's Card [1992]

Erica Mailman (Non-Series) Nora Simms, prostitute i.e. Woman of ill fame San Francisco CA during the Gold Rush (mid 19th C)	Woman of Ill Fame [2007]

Tucker Malarkey (Non-Series) Gemma Bastian, daughter of a renowned British archeologist; draws on actual events around finding lost gospels at Nag Hammadi Cairo Egypt, after World War II	Resurrection [2006]

Paul Malmont Walter (The Shadow) Gibson and Lester (Doc Savage) Dent the pulp era's greatest writers and rivals America 1937	The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril [2006]

Edward C. Mann Maxwell Houghton, amateur sleuth son of a wealthy Boston banker 1869 various locales	Shadow Wind [2001] Long River [2003]

Peter Manso Co-author with Ellen Hawkes - see listing under Hawkes

Hannah March (aka Tim Wilson) Robert Fairfax, Itinerant tutor Britain 1750s-1760s	The Complaint of the Dove [1999] The Devil's Highway [1999] A Distinction of Blood [2000] Death Be My Theme [2000] A Necessary Evil [2001]

Leslie Margolin (Non-series) Retelling of the real life Thompson-Bywaters murder case London 1922	Adulteress [2006]

Jay Margrave Priedeux, a contract killer England 1399	The Gawain Quest: A Medieval Mystery [2007]

Jeffery Marks General Ulysses S. Grant Julia Grant, his wife Georgetown, Ohio Post Civil War, 1865	The Ambush of My Name [2001] A Good Soldier [2003]

Chris Marr (Non-series) George Erskine, invalided out of the Boer War on trial for murder of his wife Hampshire, England 1903	The Lady of the Manor [2008]

William Marshall City Detective Virgil Tillman and his partner, patrolman Ned Muldoon of the Strong Arm Squad lNew York City 1880s	New York Detective [1989] Faces in the Crowd [1991]

Edward Marston 1 (aka Keith Miles, Conrad Allen) The Domesday Mysteries Ralph Delchard, Soldier Gervase Bret, Lawyer 11th C England	The Wolves of Savernake [1993] The Ravens of Blackwater [1994] The Dragons of Archenfield [1995] The Lions of the North [1996] The Serpents of Harpledown [1996] The Stallions of Woodstock [1997] The Hawks of Delamere [1998] The Wildcats of Exeter [1998] The Foxes of Warwick [1999] The Owls of Glouscester [2000] The Elephants of Norwich [2000]

Edward Marston 2 Elizabethan Theater Mysteries Nicholas Bracewell, Actor England, 1558 - 1603	The Queen's Head [1988] The Merry Devils [1989] The Trip to Jerusalem [1990] The Nine Giants [1991] The Mad Courtesan [1992] The Silent Woman [1994] The Roaring Boy [1995] The Laughing Hangman [1996] The Fair Maid of Bohemia [1997] The Wanton Angel [1999] The Devil's Apprentice [2001] The Bawdy Basket [2002] The Vagabond Clown [2003] The Counterfeit Crank [2004] The Malevolent Comedy [2005] The Princess of Denmark [2006]

Edward Marston 3 Restoration England Mysteries Christopher Redmayne, Architect Jonathan Bale, Puritan Constable Restoration London, England 1688-1670	The King's Evil [1999] The Amorous Nightingale [2000] The Repentant Rake [2001] The Frost Fair [2003] The Parliament House [2006] The Painted Lady [2007]

Edward Marston 4 Inspector Robert Colbeck 1851 London, England	The Railway Detective [2004] The Excursion Train [2005] The Railway Viaduct [2006] The Iron Horse [2007]

Edward Marston 5 (Short Stories) Anthology, mostly historical covering 2000 years	Murder, Ancient and Modern [2005]

Andrew Martin Jim Stringer, railway porter and amateur sleuth, later official railway detective Various locations in England 1903-1906	The Necropolis Railway [2002] The Blackpool Highflyer [2004] The Lost Luggage Porter [2006] Murder at Deviation Junction [2007] Death on a Branch Line [2008]

Rosemary Martin (aka Rosemary Stevens) Murder A-Go-Go Mysteries Bebe Bennett, groovy secretary to a record company executive 1964 New York City	It's a Mod, Mod, Mod, Mod Murder [2005] Twist and Shout Murder [2006] Secret Agent Girl [2007]

Amanda Matetsky Paige Turner, Budding mystery writer 1950s USA	Murderers Prefer Blondes [2003] Murder Is a Girl's Best Friend [2004] How to Marry a Murderer [2005] Murder on a Hot Tin Roof [2006] Dial Me for Murder [2008]

Francine Mathews (aka Stephanie Barron) Ensemble cast espionage thriller mixing real life and fictional characters WW II Paris, 1940	The Alibi Club [2006]

Theodore Mathieson (Non-series) Various detectives and settings	The Great Detectives [1960] Collection of short stories with various historical figures: Leonardo da Vinci, Alexander the Great, Omar Khayyam, Hernando Cortez, Don Miguel de Cervantes, Daniel Defoe, Captain Cook, Dan'l Boone, Stanley and Livingstone, and Florence Nightingale as detective Devil and Ben Franklin [1961] 1734, Philadelphia

Greg Matthews Keith Moody, Screenwriter Hollywood 1940s	Far from Heaven [1997] Come to Dust [1998]

Robin Maxwell (Non-Series) "The Princes in the Tower" mystery As viewed by Nell Caxton, daughter of printer William Caxton and friend to the princes' sister London 1480s	To the Tower Born [2005]

James P Maywar Blue Water Trilogy Patrolman Tobias Sharpe, Detective John Gressley, police dept employee Sylvia Pointe, Sharpe's wife Mary and newspaper reporter Bill Boyd Port Huron, Michigan 1913-1926	A Blue Water Death [2006] Fallen Oaks [2007] A Summer of Rage [2008]

Robert McCammon Isaac Woodward, magistrate and his assistant, Matthew Corbett Colonial US var locations 1699-1703	Speaks the Nightbird [2002] Paperback edition [2003] is in 2 volumes: Volume I: Judgment of the Witch Volume II: Evil Unveiled The Queen of Bedlam [2007]

Sam McCarver John Darnell, Professional Investigator Mid-1900's, England and Europe	The Case of Cabin 13 [1998] The Case of Compartment 7 [2000] The Case of the 2nd Seance [2000] The Case of the Ripper's Revenge [2001] The Case of the Uninvited Guest [2002] To Die, or Not to Die [2003]

Lise McClendon Dorie Lennox, female private investigator Kansas City World War II swing era	One O'Clock Jump [2001] Sweet and Lowdown [2002]

Vincent McConnor (Non-Series) Francois Eugene Vidocq, former criminal, founder and chief of the Surete, friend of Balzac, Dumas, and Hugo Paris, France 1823	I Am Vidocq [1985]

Colleen McCullough (Non-Series) Police Lieutenant Carmine Delmonico fictional ivy league Chubb Univ. Holloman, Conn 1965	On, Off: A Novel [2006]

Hal McDonald Edward Montague and his roommate, Jean-Claude Legard of Paris. as young students at Guy’s Hospital in London 1825	The Anatomists [2008] (original title: A Simple Case of Revenge)

Susan McDuffie Muirteach, eldest son of the head of the Oronnsay Priory 1373 Scotland	Mass for the Dead [2006]

James McGee Matthew Hawkwood, Bow Street Runner 1811 London	Ratcatcher [2006] Resurrectionist [2007] Rapscallion [2008]

Iona McGregor Detective James McLevy, Christabel MacKenzie, student and Eleanor Stewart, her tutor and lesbian lover Edinburgh, Scotland 1860	Death Wore a Diadem [1989]

Pat McIntosh Gil Cunningham,lawyer & Maistre Pierre, master mason Late 15th C Glasgow, Scotland	The Harper's Quine [2004] Nicholas Feast [2005] The Merchant's Mark [2006] St. Mungo's Robin [2006]

Ann McMillan Civil War Mysteries Narcissa Powers, white widow Judah Daniel, free black herbalist Virginia, American Civil War	Dead March [1998] Angel Trumpet [1999] Civil Blood [2001] Chickahominy Fever [2003]

Catriona McPherson Dandy Gilver, upper class wife, mother, and amateur detective Perthshire Scotland, post WWI 1920s	After the Armistice Ball [2005] The Burry Man's Day [2006] Bury Her Deep [2007] The Winter Ground [2008]

Amy Patricia Meade Marjorie McClelland, Successful young writer 1930s post-prohibition Ridgebury, CT	Million Dollar Baby [2006] Ghost of a Chance [2007] Shadow Waltz [2008]

Mardi Oakley Medawar Tay-bodal, Kiowa Indian and healer 1860s Oklahoma	Death at Rainy Mountain [1996] Witch of the Palo Duro [1997] Murder at Medicine Lodge [1999] The Ft. Larned Incident [2000]

Medieval Murderers (aka Simon Beaufort, Philip Gooden, Susanna Gregory, Michael Jecks, Bernard Knight, Ian Morson), and - since 2008 - C. J. Sansom Combined anthologies of multi-era interrelated stories	The Tainted Relic [2005] Sword of Shame [2006] House of Shadows [2007] The Lost Prophecies [2008]

Bill Mesce, Jr. Major Harry Voss US Army lawyer 1943 England and Scotland	The Advocate [2001] Officer of the Court [2002] The Defender [2003]

Annette Meyers 1 (aka Maan Meyers) Olivia Brown, Actress New York's Greenwich Village Roaring '20s	Free Love [1999] Murder Me Now [2001]

Nicholas Meyer Holmes Pastiches Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson Victorian London and Paris	The Seven-Per-Cent Solution [1974] The West End Horror [1976] The Canary Trainer [1995]

Annette Meyers 2 (aka Maan Meyers) (Non-Series) Nathan Ebanholz, Jewish immigrant New York City NY 1936	Repentances [2004]

Maan Meyers (aka Annette Meyers & Martin Meyers) The Dutchman Mysteries Tonneman Family New Amsterdam, New York 1664 - 1895	The Dutchman [1992] The Kingsbridge Plot [1993] The High Constable [1994] The Dutchman's Dilemma [1995] The House on Mulberry Street [1996] The Lucifer Contract [1997]

Keith Miles (aka Edward Marston, Conrad Allen) Merlin Richards, Architect Phoenix, Arizona Oak Park, Illinois 1930s	Murder in Perspective [1997] Saint's Rest [1999]

Margaret Miles Charlotte Willett, widow Richard Longfellow, scientist and gentleman farmer Colonial America 1763-1766 Bracebridge, New England	A Wicked Way to Burn [1998] Too Soon for Flowers [1999] No Rest for the Dove [2000] A Mischief in the Snow [2001]

Larry Millett Sherlock Holmes and Watson With Shadwell Rafferty, an Irish American saloonkeeper American Midwest 1894-1900	Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demon [1996] Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders [1998] Sherlock Holmes and the Rune Stone [1999] Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Alliance [2001] The Disappearance of Sherlock Holmes [2002]

Mark Mills (Non-Series) Various settings, protagonists	Amagansett [2004] - Tom Hollis, Police Chief, Amagansett, Long Island 1947 The Savage Garden [2007] - Cambridge student Adam Strickland, Tuscany 1958

Rosemary Miner Miss Grace Wickham Herbal medicine practitioner Upstate NY, Adirondacks 1870s	Once Upon A Time To Die For [2007] Lies and Logs To Die For [2008]

Kirk Mitchell (Aka Joel Norst) (Non-Series) Colonel Simon Wolfe, one-armed Union surgeon during the American Civil War Shenandoah Valley, VA USA 1864	Shadow on the Valley [1993]

Brent Monahan John Le Brun, sheriff & American Civil War veteran End of the 19th/early 20th C various locales	The Jekyl Island Club [2000] The Sceptered Isle Club [2002] The Manhattan Island Clubs [2003]

Donald Monat & June Dixon Sherlock Holmes Pastiche Victorian London	The Merchant of Death [2008]

Michael J. Mondl Timothy Jarrett, Private Eye 1951 USA	Deep Wounds [2005]

Miriam Grace Monfredo 1 Seneca Falls Historical Series Glynis Tryon, Librarian Seneca Falls, New York mid-1800's	Seneca Falls Inheritance [1992] North Star Conspiracy [1993] Blackwater Spirits [1995] Through A Gold Eagle [1996] The Stalking Horse [1998] Must the Maiden Die [1999]

Miriam Grace Monfredo 2 Cain series Bronwyn Lyr, Treasury Agent Kathryn Lyr, Nurse American Civil War	Sisters of Cain [2000] Brothers of Cain [2001] Children of Cain [2002]

Steve Monroe (Non-series) Noirish thrillers with different protagonists set in different decades of 20th C Chicago, Illinois	'57, Chicago [2001] '46, Chicago [2002]

Miriam Ann Moore Marti Hirsch, writer and amateur detective hooked into the music scenes during the Disco Era NYC & Las Vegas 1978-82	Last Dance [1997] Stayin' Alive [1998] I Will Survive [1999]

Viviane Moore UK Author Chevalier Galeran de Lesnevan Breton Knight and investigator France 1145-6	Blue Blood [2000] A Black Romance [2000] The Darkest Red [2001] The White Path [2002] Jaune Sable [2003]

Richard Moquist Sadie Greenstreet, housewife and advice columnist and her husband Horace, a Pinkerton Agent Mississippi riverboats 1870s	Eye of the Agency [1997]

Fidelis Morgan Anastasia Ashby de la Zouche Baroness Penge, Countess of Clapham, former mistress to King Charles II And her former personal maid, Alpiew England, Restoration Period	Unnatural Fire [2000] The Rival Queens [2002] The Ambitious Stepmother [2002] Fortune's Slave [2004]

Philippa Morgan (aka Philip Gooden) Geoffrey Chaucer. Poet and diplomat Various European locations 1370s	Chaucer and the House of Fame [2004] Chaucer and the Legend of Good Women [2005] Chaucer and the Doctor of Physic [2006]

Gilbert Morris Lady Serafina Trent aristocratic young widow and mother Victorian England	The Mermaid in the Basement [2007]

R. N. (Roger) Morris Porfiry Petrovich, the detective from Crime and Punishment Russia, late 1860s	The Gentle Axe [2007] A Vengeful Longing [2008]

J. P. Morrissey (Non-Series) John Vanbrugh, a young American architect Blenheim Palace, England 1905	A Weekend at Blenheim [2002]

Ian Morson 1 William Falconer, Regent Master at Oxford University 13th C Oxford, England	Falconer's Crusade [1994] Falconer's Judgement [1995] Falconer and the Face of God [1996] A Psalm for Falconer [1995] Falconer and the Great Beast [1998]

Ian Morson 2 Nick Zuliani, Venetian entrepreneur and explorer Mongol Empire in 1262.	City of the Dead [2008]

Walter Mosley 1 Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, Black WWII veteran and Sometime private investigator Southern California 1948-1967	Devil in a Blue Dress [1990] Red Death [1991] White Butterfly [1992] Black Betty [1994] A Little Yellow Dog [1996] Gone Fishin' [1997] Bad Boy Brawly Brown [2002] Six Easy Pieces (Short Stories) [2003] Little Scarlet [2004] Cinnamon Kiss [2005] Blonde Faith [2007]

Walter Mosley 2 Paris Minton, Second-hand bookstore owner & Fearless Jones, his best friend and a black WW II veteran Los Angeles, California 1950s	Fearless Jones [2001] Fear Itself [2003] Fear of the Dark [2006]

Robert J. Mrazek Non-series historical mystery/thrillers Various settings and protagonists	Unholy Fire: A Novel of the Civil War [2004] - Civil War Washington, D.C, Lt. John McKittredge The Deadly Embrace: A Novel of World War II [2006] - London during the Blitz, Women's Army Corps Lt. Elizabeth Marantz and Maj. Sam Taggart

Eddie Muller Billy Nichols Boxing columnist Post WW II San Francisco	The Distance [2002] Shadow Boxer [2003]

Barbara Murray (Non-series) Bea MacDonald, housemaid St. John's, Newfoundland Canada 1902	Gifts and Bones [2006]

Amy Myers 1 (aka Harriet Hudson) Auguste Didier, Master Chef London, England Victorian Period	Murder in Pug's Parlour [1986] Murder in the Limelight [1986] Murder at Plum's [1989] Murder at the Masque [1991] Murder Makes an Entree [1992] Murder Under the Kissing Bough [1992] Murder in the Smokehouse [1994] Murder at the Music Hall [1995] Murder in the Motor Stable [1996] Murder with Majesty [1999] Murder in the Queen's Boudoir [2000]

Amy Myers 2 (aka Harriet Hudson) Tom Wasp, chimney sweep Ned, his former climbing boy apprentice Victorian London's East End	Tom Wasp and the Murdered Stunner [2007]

Amy Myers 3 (aka Harriet Hudson) (Short Stories) Anthology Historical detective stories from ancient Greece to Victorian England	Murder! 'Orrible Murder! [2006] Who Killed Orpheus? - a Mighty Aphrodite short story available online.

Beverle Graves Myers Tito Amato, Castrato opera singer Venice, Italy 1730s	Interrupted Aria [2004] Painted Veil [2005] Cruel Music [2006] The Iron Tongue of Midnight [2008] "A Baroque Phantom" - a short story available for free at Fables online through a link on the author's website.