Medieval Mysteries

 

A Bibliography

  Anthologies   

 

The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunits

            edited by Mike Ashley

The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives

            edited by Mike Ashley

Royal Whodunnits

            edited by Mike Ashley

Crime Through Time: Original Tales of Historical Mystery

            edited by Miriam Monfredo & Sharan Newman

Crime Through Time II

            edited by Miriam Monfredo & Sharan Newman

Crime Through Time III

            edited by Sharan Newman

Murder Most Medieval: Noble Tales of Ignoble Demises

            edited by Martin Greenberg & John Heifers

 

Individual Detectives

 

v        John the Eunuch                           story takes place in 6th century Constantinople

                        authors:  Mary Reed & Eric Mayer

                                                One for Sorrow

                                                Two for Joy

 

v     Sister Fidelma                             stories start in 664

author: Peter Tremayne

                        Hemlock at Vespers (short story collection)

                        Absolution by Murder

                                                Shroud for the Archbishop

                                                Suffer Little Children

                                                The Subtle Serpent

                                                The Spider’s Web

                                                Valley of the Shadows

                                                The Monk Who Vanished

 

v     The Domesday Researchers         stories start in 1086

author: Edward Marston

                        The Wolves of Savernake

                        The Ravens of Blackwater

                        The Dragons of Archenfield

                        The Lions of the North

                        The Serpents of Harbledown

                        The Stallions of Woodstock

                        The Wildcats of Exeter

                        The Hawks of Delemere

 

v     Sir Geoffrey de Mappestone        Stories start in 1100

                        author: Simon Beaufort

                                                Murder in the Holy City

                                                A Head for Poisoning

 

v     Hugh Corbaille                           story takes place in the 1100's

                        author:              Joan Wolf

                                                No Dark Place

                                                The Poisoned Serpent

 

v     Brother Cadfael                            stories go from 1136 to 1146

author: Ellis Peters

                        A Rare Benedictine

                        The Holy Thief

                        A Morbid Taste for Bones

                        One Corpse Too Many

                        Monks-Hood

                        Saint Peter’s Fair

                        The Leper of Saint Giles

                        The Virgin in the Ice

                                        The Sanctuary Sparrow

                        The Devil’s Novice

                        Dead Man’s Ransom

                        The Pilgrim of Hate

                        An Excellent Mystery

                        The Raven in the Foregate

                        The Rose Rent

                        The Hermit of Eyton Forest

                        The Confession of Brother Haluin

                        The Heretic’s Apprentice

                        The Potter’s Field

                        The Summer of the Danes

                        Brother Cadfael’s Penance

 

related books:  Brother Cadfael’s Herb Garden  by Robin Whiteman

                         Cordially Yours, Brother Cadfael by Anne K. Kaler (editor)

                              Strongholds and Sanctuaries  by Ellis Peters & Roy Morgan

                        Ellis Peters' Shropshire by Ellis Peters

 

v     Catherine Le Vendeur                stories start in 1139

author: Sharan Newman

  Death Comes As Epiphany

                                        The Devil’s Door

The Wandering Arm

Strong As Death

                                                   Cursed in the Blood

                                                    The Difficult Saint

                                                    To Wear the White Cloak

 

v     Sir Bellamy of Itchen                    Story takes place in 1139

                        author:  Roberta Gellis

                                                     A Mortal Bane

 

v        Josse d'Acquin                        story takes place in 1157

                        author:  Alys Clare

                                                     Fortune like the Moon

 

v     Father Simeon                              story takes place in 1180

                        author: Domini Highsmith

                                                    Keeper at the Shrine

 

v     Justin de Quincy                              story takes place in 1193

                        author: Sharon Kay Penman

                                                   The Queen’s Man

                                                    Cruel as the Grave

 

v     Feste                                       stories start in 1200

                        authors: Alan Gordon

                                                Thirteenth Night

                                                Jester Leaps In

 

v     William Falconer                            stories start in 1264

                        author: Ian Morson   

                                                    Falconer’s Crusade

                                                     Falconer’s Judgment

                                                     Falconer and the Face of God

                                                     A Psalm for Falconer

                                                     Falconer and the Great Beast

 

v     Hugh Corbett                             stories start in 1284

                        author: P.C. Doherty

                                                Satan in St. Mary’s

                                                Crown in Darkness

                                                 Spy in Chancery

                                                 The Angel of Death

                                                 The Prince of Darkness

                                                 Murder Wears a Cowl

                                                 The Assassin in the Greenwood    

                                                The Song of a Dark Angel

                                                Satan’s Fire

                                                The Devil’s Hunt

 

v     Matthew Bartholomew                   stories take place in the 1300’s

                        author: Susanna Gregory

                                                An Unholy Alliance

                                                A Bone of Contention

                                                A Plague on Both Your Houses

 

v     Brother William of Baskerville          story takes place in 1327

                        author: Umberto Eco

                                                The Name of the Rose

 

v     Edmund Beche                                story takes place in 1344

                        author: P.C. Doherty

                                                The Death of the King

 

v     Various Pilgrims going to Canterbury

                        author: P.C. Doherty

                                                An Ancient Evil

                                                A Tapestry of Murders

                                                A Tournament of Murders

                                                Ghostly Murders

 

v     Isaac of Girona                              stories begin in 1353

                        author: Caroline Roe

                                                Remedy for Treason

                                                Cure for a Charlatan

                                                An Antidote for Avarvice

                                                Solace for a Sinner

 

v     Owen Archer                               stories begin in 1363

                        author: Candace Robb

                                                The Apothecary Rose

                                                The Lady Chapel

                                                The Nun’s Tale

                                                The King’s Bishop

                                                The Riddle of St. Leonard’s

                                                A Gift of Sanctuary

                                                A Trust Betrayed

 

v     Brother Athelstan             stories begin in 1377

                        author: Paul Harding

                                                The Nightingale Gallery

                                                Red Slayer

 

v     Sister Frevisse                             stories begin in 1430

                        author: Margaret Frazer

                                                The Novice’s Tale

                                                The Servant’s Tale

                                                The Outlaw’s Tale

                                                The Bishop’s Tale

                                                The Boy’s Tale

                                                The Murderer’s Tale

                                                The Prioress’ Tale

                                                The Maiden’s Tale

                                                The Reeve's Tale

                                                The Squire's Tale

 

v     Kathryn Swinbrooke                      stories begin in 1471

                        author: C.L. Grace

                                                A Shrine of Murders

                                                The Eye of God

                                                The Merchant of Death

                                                The Book of Shadows

 

v     Sigismondo                            stories take place somewhere in the Italian                   author: Elizabeth Eyre       Renaissance

                                                Death of a Duchess

                                                Curtains for the Cardinal

                                                Poison for the Prince

                                                Bravo for the Bride

                                                Axe for the Abbot

                                                Dirge for a Doge

 

v     Roger the Chapman           stories begin in 1471

                        author: Kate Sedley

                                                Death and the Chapman

                                                The Plymouth Cloak

                                                The Weaver’s Tale

                                                The Holy Innocents

                                                The Eve of St. Hyacinth

                                                The Wicked Winter

                                                The Brothers of Glastonbury

 

v     Father Felix Fabri                         story takes place in 1483

                        author: Sheri Holman

                                                A Stolen Tongue

 

v     Niccolo & Leonardo da Vinci          stories begin in 1498

                        author: George Herman

                                                                          A Comedy of Murders

                        The Tears of the Madonna

 

v     Berekiah Zarco                                 story takes place in 1506

                        author: Richard Zimler

                                                The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon

 

v     Roger Shallot                        stories begin in 1517

                                              author: Michael Clynes

                                                The White Rose Murders

                                                The Poisoned Chalice

                                                The Grail Murders

                                                A Brood of Vipers

                                                The Gallows Murder

 

v     Princess Elizabeth                    story takes place in 1558

                        author: Karen Harper

                                                The Poyson Garden

                                                The Tidal Poole

 

v     Ursula Blanchard                   stories begin in 1560

                        author: Fiona Buckley

                                                To Shield the Queen

                                                The Doublet Affair

                                                Queens' Ransom

                                                To Ruin a Queen

 

v     Lady Susanna Appleton                    stories begin about 1560

                        author: Kathy Lynn Emerson

                                                Face Down in the Marrow-Bone Pie

                                                Face Down upon an Herbal

                                                Face Down Among the Winchester Geese

                                                Face Down Beneath the Eleanor Cross

                                                Face Down Under the Wych Elm

 

v     Nicholas Segalla                        a story takes place in 1567, another in 1558

                        author: Ann Dukthas

                                                A Time for the Death of a King

                                                In the Time of the Poisoned Queen

 

v     Nicholas Bracewell                    stories begin in 1588

                        author: Edward Marston

                                                The Queen’s Head

                                                The Merry Devils

                                                The Trip to Jerusalem

                                                The Nine Giants

                                                The Mad Courtesan

                                                The Silent Woman

                                                The Roaring Boy

                        The Laughing Hangman

                        The Fair Maid of Bohemia

                        Wanton Angel

 

v     Sir Robert Carey                  stories begin in 1592

                        author: P.F. Chisholm

                                                A Famine of Horses

                                                A Season of Knives

                                                A Surfeit of Guns

                                                A Plague of Angels

 

v     Will Shakespeare                                 story takes place in 1593

                        author: Faye Kellerman

                                                The Quality of Mercy

 

v     Matthew Stock                          stories begin in 1595

                        author: Leonard Tourney

                                                The Player’s Boy Is Dead

                                                Low Treason

                                                Familiar Spirits

                                                The Bartholomew Fair Murders

                                                Old Saxon Blood

                                                Knaves Templar

                                                Witness of Bones

                                                Frobisher’s Savage

 

Far Eastern Detectives

 

v     Judge Dee                                    

                        author: Robert van Guilk

                                                The Chinese Bell Murders

                                                The Chinese Maze Murders

                                                The Chinese Lake Murders

                                                The Chinese Gold Murders

                                                The Chinese Nail Murders

                                                The Emperor’s Pearl

                                                The Haunted Monastery

                                                The Lacquer Screen

                                                The Red Pavilion

                                                The Willow Pattern

                                                The Monkey and The Tiger

                                                The Phantom of the Temple

                                                Murder in Canton

                                                Necklace and Calabash

                                                Poets and Murder

                                                Judge Dee at Work

 

v     Lady Aoi                                      stories take place in the early 1000’s

                        author: Ann Woodward

                                                The Exile Way

                                                Of Death and Black Rivers

 

v     Matsuyama Kaze                     story takes place in 1603

                        author: Dale Furutani

                                                Death at the Crossroads

                                                Jade Palace Vendetta

                                                Kill the Shogun

 

v     Yoriki Sano Ichiro                          stories start in 1689

                        author: Laura Joh Rowland

                                                Shinju

                                                Bundori

                                                The Way of the Traitor

                                                The Concubine's Tattoo

                                                The Samurai's Wife

 

Richard III and the Princes

 

The Daughter of Time  -  author: Josephine Tey

 

The Murders of Richard III  -  author: Elizabeth Peters

 

To Prove A Villain  -  author: Guy M. Townsend

 

The Princes in the Tower  -  author: Alison Weir  (nonfiction)

 

SCA

 

Murder at the War   (later reprinted as Knightfall)  -  author: Mary Monica Pulver