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This page lists anthologies that collect historical mystery fiction.

The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits

Editor: Mike Ashley

1993

"This collection, with a Foreword by the creator of the Brother Cadfael books, gathers together some of the best stories in the genre."

• The Locked Tomb Mystery (Elizabeth Peters)
• The Thief Versus King Rhampsinitus (Herodotus)
• Socrates Solves A Murder (Breni James)
• Mightier Than The Sword (John Maddox Roberts)
• The Treasury Thefts (Wallace Nichols)
• A Byzantine Mystery (Mary Reed And Eric Mayer)
• He Came With The Rain (Robert Van Gulik)
• The High King's Sword (Peter Tremayne)
• The Price Of Light (Ellis Peters)
• The Confession Of Brother Athelstan (Paul Harding)
• The Witch's Tale (Margaret Frazer)
• Father Hugh And The Deadly Scythe (Mary Monica Pulver)
• Leonardo Da Vinci, Detective (Theodore Mathieson)
• A Sad And Bloody Hour (Joe Gores)
• The Christmas Masque (S.S. Rafferty)
• Murder Lock'd In (Lillian De La Torre)
• Captain Nash And The Wroth Inheritance (Raymond Butler)
• The Doomdorf Mystery (Melville Davisson Post)
• Murder In The Rue Royale (Michael Harrison)
• The Gentleman From Paris (John Dickson Carr)
• The Golden Nugget Poker Game (Edward D. Hoch)
• The Case Of The Deptford Horror (Arthur Conan Doyle)
• Five Rings In Reno (R.L. Stevens)

The Mammoth Book of Classical Whodunnits

Editor: Mike Ashley

1996

"A collection of 22 historical detective stories set in the golden age of Greece and Rome."

• Preface: A Murder, Now and Then . . . (Steven Saylor)
• Aphrodite's Trojan Horse (Amy Myers)
• The Gateway to Death (Brezni James)
• Death of the King (Theodore Mathieson)
• The Favour of a Tyrant (Keith Taylor)
• The White Fawn (Steven Saylor)
• The Statuette of Rhodes (John Maddox Roberts)
• The Things that are Caesar's (Edward D. Hoch)
• Murderer, Farewell (Ron Burns)
• A Pomegranate for Pluto (Claire Griffen)
• The Gardens of Tantalus (Brian Stableford)
• A Green Boy (Anthony Price)
• The Last Letter (Derek Wilson)
• The Brother in the Tree (Keith Heller)
• The Ass's Head (Phyllis Ann Karr)
• The Nest of Evil (Wallace Nichols)
• Mosaic (Rosemary Aitken)
• In This Sign, Conquer (Nina-Gail Anderson & Simon Clark)
• Last Things (Darrell Schweitzer)
• Beauty More Stealthy (Mary Reed & Eric Mayer)
• The Poisoned Chalice (Peter Tremayne)

Crime Through Time: Original Tales Of Historical Mystery

Editor: Miriam Grace Monfredo and Sharan Newman

1997

The contents are:

• Death Of A Place-Seeker (Lynda S. Robinson)
• Archimedes' Tomb (Steven Saylor)
• Solomon's Decision (Sharan Newman)
• Murder At Anchor (Edward Marston)
• The Hangman's Apprentice (Leonard Tourney)
• Suffer A Witch (Miriam Grace Monfredo)
• The Lullaby Cheat (Kate Ross)
• Anything In The Dark (Edward D. Hoch)
• Bertie And The Boat Race (Peter Lovesey)
• The High Constable And The Visiting Author (Maan Meyers)
• Look To The Lady (Alanna Knight)
• Mrs. Hudson's Case (Laurie King)
• Exit Centre Stage (M.J. Trow)
• Decision Of The Umpire (Troy Soos)
• Uncle Charlie's Letters (Anne Perry)
• Killing The Critic (Gillian Linscott)
• Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Corpse (Barbara Paul)
• The Mamur Zapt And The Kodaker's Eye (Michael Pearce)
• Storm In A Tea Shoppe (Carola Dunn)
• The Enemy (Ken Kuhlken)
• The Soldier And His Dead Companion (Nicholas A. DiChario)

Crime Through Time II: A New Collection Of original Historical Mysteries

Editor: Miriam Grace Monfredo and Sharan Newman

1998

The contents are:

• Murder One (Walter Satterthwait)
• Etruscan House (John Maddox Roberts)
• Domesday Deferred (Edward Marston)
• Movable City (Edward D. Hoch)
• Case Of The Santo Nino (Anne Perry)
• Anna And The Mirror (Dianne Day)
• Mizu-Age (Laura Joh Rowland)
• Scientific Education (Nancy Kress)
• Mule Named Sal (Miriam Grace Monfredo)
• Sense And Sensuality (Robert Barnard)
• High Constable And The Rochester Rappers (Maan Meyers)
• Ballad Of Gentleman Jem (Gillian Linscott)
• Hungry Ghost Of Panamint (William F. Wu)
• Promised Land (Sharon Newman)
• Mesmerizing Bertie (Carole Nelson Douglas)
• Man Of My Stature (Jan Burke)
• Fearful (Sarah Smith)
• Unsinkable (Elizabeth Foxwell)
• Dorothy Past And Present (Michael Coney)

Past Poisons: An Ellis Peters Memorial Anthology of Historical Crime

Editor: Maxim Jakubowski

1998

"The stories in this collection have been written by many historical crime writers all wishing to pay tribute to the work of Edith Pargeter, alias Ellis Peters, who wrote the Brother Cadfael series. The authors have also contributed a short introduction about their sources and influences."

• A Counter-blast to Tobacco (Paul C. Doherty)
• Wheel in the Sky (Edward D. Hoch)
• Starstruck at San Simeon (Janet Laurence)
• Death by Eros (Steven Saylor)
• Damned Spot (Julian Rathbone)
• Showman (Peter Lovesey)
• The Padder's Lesson (Molly Brown)
• To Dispose of an Abbot (Susanna Gregory)
• The Mamur Zapt and the Catherine Wheel (Michael Pearce)
• The Great Brogonye (David Howard)
• The Unkindest Cut (Kate Ross)
• Girl Talk (Marilyn Todd)
• Invitation to a Poisoning (Peter Tremayne)
• The Last High Queen (Anne Perry)
• To Encourage the Others (Martin Edwards)
• Psalm for a Dead Disciple (Edward Marston)
• Handsel Monday (Catherine Aird)
• An Academic Question (John Maddox Roberts)
• Hellfire (Lord John and the Hellfire Club) (Diana Gabaldon)
• The Party May Yet be Living (Lindsey Davis)

Past Crimes: Perfectly Criminal 3

Editor: Martin Edwards

1998

An anthology of mystery stories.

"This thrilling collection focuses on historic crimes, from ancient Greece to the Middle Ages to World War II."

• Expectations (Ruth Rendell)
• Dialogue (Gillian Linscott)
• Masks And Faces (Eileen Dewhurst)
• Chapter And Hearse (Catherine Aird)
• War Rations (Martin Edwards)
• The Burning Of London (Susanna Gregory)
• Table For Twelve (Tony Wilmot)
• The Queen's Magician (Edward D. Hoch)
• A Lurking Fear (H.R.F. Keating)
• Heroes (Anne Perry)
• Not A Minute On The Day (Mat Coward)
• Murder And Miracles (Edward Marston)
• Murder In A Time Of Siege (Marjorie Eccles)
• Who Killed Adonis? (Amy Myers)
• Plumage (Alison White)
• The Woman Who Loved Elizabeth David (Andrew Taylor)

Chronicles of Crime: The Second Ellis Peters Memorial Anthology of Historical Crime

Editor: Maxim Jakubowski

1999

"In this second memorial anthology, more of today's leading British and American crime writers have contributed new stories, with a breath-taking range of settings and sleuths, guaranteed to appeal to every fan of historical and modern crime."

Murder Through The Ages: A Bumper Anthology of Historical Mysteries

Editor: Maxim Jakubowski

2000

The contents are:

• Introduction (Maxim Jakubowski)
• Who Killed Dido? (Amy Myers)
• Investigating the Silvius Boys (Lindsey Davis)
• Trunk Call (Marilyn Todd)
• Who Stole the Fish? (Peter Tremayne)
• The Fury of the Northmen (Kate Ellis)
• Raven Feeder (Manda Scott)
• The Shoulder-Blade of a Ram (Edward Marston)
• Flyting, Fighting (Clayton Emery)
• The Trebuchet Murder (Susanna Gregory)
• Id Quod Clarum ... (Paul Doherty)
• Pie Powder (John Hall)
• Cold Comfort (Catherine Aird)
• A Gift to the Bridegroom (Judith Cook)
• A Matter of Flesh and Blood (Gavin Newman)
• Spellbound (Carol Anne Davis)
• But Poor Men Pay for All (Mat Coward)
• A Poisoned Chalice (John Sherwood)
• Miss Unwin's Mistake (H. R. F. Keating)
• The Case of the Abominable Wife (June Thomson)
• The Curzon Street Conundrum (David Stuart Davies)
• Unsettled Scores (Jurgen Ehlers)
• A Right Royal Attempt (Ian Morson)
• The Playwrights (Michael Hemmingson)
• The Problem of Stateroom (Peter Lovesey)
• Dark Mirror (Lauren Henderson)

Crime Through Time III: A New Collection Of original Historical Mysteries

Editor: Sharan Newman

2000

The contents are:

• The Consul's Wife (Steven Saylor)
• Merchants Of Discord (Laura Frankos)
• Farmers' Law (Harry Turtledove)
• The Case Of The Murdered Pope (Andrew Greeley)
• Lark In The Morning (Sharyn Mccrumb)
• The Weeping Time (Maureen Jennings)
• The Irish Widower (Leonard Tourney)
• Smoke (William Sanders)
• The Episode Of The Water Closet (Bruce Alexander)
• Suspicion (Michael Coney)
• Murder In Utopia (Peter Robinson)
• Dr. Death (Peter Lovesey)
• Dinner With H.P.B. (Eileen Kernaghan)
• The Haunting Of Carrick Hollow (Jan Burke And Paul Sledzik)
• Howard (H.R.F. Keating)
• Come Flit By Me (Elizabeth Foxwell)
• Murder On The Denver Express (Margaret Coel)
• A Single Spy (Miriam Grace Monfredo)

The Mammoth Book of Egyptian Whodunnits

Editor: Mike Ashley

2002

"This anthology covers two periods in history - the time of 'Ancient Egypt' which stretches from the First Dynasty in 4000 BC to the time of the Roman Empire, and the time of the Discoveries, which covers the Napoleonic and Victorian periods of excavation."

• Introduction (Elizabeth Peters)
• Set In Stone (Deirdre Counihan)
• Serpent At The Feast (Claire Griffen)
• Sorrow Of Senusert The Mighty (Keith Taylor)
• Execration (Noreen Doyle)
• No-Name (R.H. Stewart)
• "Or You Can Drink The Wine ...?" (Paul C. Doherty)
• Murder In The Land Of Wawat (Lauren Haney)
• Locked Tomb Mystery (Elizabeth Peters)
• Heretic's Dagger (Lynda S. Robinson)
• Scorpion's Kiss (Anton Gill)
• Claws Of The Wind (Suzanne Frank)
• Weighing Of The Heart (F. Gwynplaine Macintyre)
• Chosen Of The Nile (Mary Reed & Eric Mayer)
• Justice Of Isis (Gillian Bradshaw)
• Wings Of Isis (Marilyn Todd)
• Bringing The Foot (Kate Ellis)
• Unrolling The Dead (Ian Morson)
• Heart Scarab (Gillian Linscott)
• Made In Egypt (Michael Pearce)

The Mammoth Book of Roman Whodunnits

Editor: Mike Ashley

2003

"From the famed Julius Caesar to the Fall of Rome, here are 20 enthralling tales of murder and mystery."

• Never Forget (Tom Holt)
• A Gladiator Dies Only Once (Steven Saylor)
• The Hostage To Fortune (Michael Jecks)
• De Crimine (Miriam Allen Deford)
• The Will (John Maddox Roberts)
• Honey Moon (Marilyn Todd)
• Damnum Fatale (Philip Boast)
• Heads You Lose (Simon Scarrow)
• Great Caesar's Ghost (Michael Kurland)
• The Cleopatra Game (Jane Finnis)
• Bread And Circuses (Caroline Lawrence)
• The Missing Centurion (Anonymous)
• Some Unpublished Correspondence Of The Younger Pliny (Darrell Schweitzer)
• A Golden Opportunity (Jean Davidson)
• Caveat Emptor (Rosemary Rowe)
• Sunshine And Shadow (R.H. Stewart)
• The Case Of His Own Abduction (Wallace Nichols)
• The Malice Of The Anicii (Gillian Bradshaw)
• The Finger Of Aphrodite (Mary Reed And Eric Mayer)
• The Lost Eagle (Peter Tremayne)

The Mammoth Book of Roaring Twenties Whodunnits

Editor: Mike Ashley

2004

"Mike Ashley's brilliant new collection of whodunnits presents stories that reflect all the excitement, escapism and eccentricity of the 1920s."

• Timor Mortis (Annette Meyers)
• Brave New Murder (H.R.F. Keating)
• So Beautiful, So Dead (Robert J. Randisi)
• There Would Have Been Murder (Ian Morson)
• Someone (Michael Collins)
• Kiss The Razor's Edge (Mike Stotter)
• Thoroughly Modern Millinery (Marilyn Todd)
• The Day Of Two Cars (Gillian Linscott)
• The Hope Of The World (Mat Coward)
• Bullets (Peter Lovesey)
• He Couldn't Fly (Michael Kurland)
• Putting Crime Over (Hulbert Footner)
• Valentino's Valediction (Amy Myers)
• Skip (Edward Marston)
• The Broadcast Murder (Grenville Robbins)
• For The Benefit Of Mr Means (Christine Matthews)
• Without Fire (Tom Holt)
• The Austin Murder Case (Jon L. Breen)
• The Man Who Scared The Bank (Archibald Pechey)
• A Pebble For Papa (Max Allan Collins & Matthew V. Clemens)
• Beyond The Call Of Beauty (Will Murray)
• The Problem Of The Tin Goose (Edward D. Hoch)
• I'll Never Play Detective Again (Cornell Woolrich)

The Mammoth Book of Jacobean Whodunnits

Editor: Mike Ashley

2006

"Stories of murder and mayhem centre on the true role of Guy Fawkes, the English Civil War and the fate of Charles I, plus the lost colony of Roanoke and the tale of Pocahontas. A fast-paced anthology for a thrilling time in British history."

• The King's First Achievement (Fiona Buckley)
• The Duke Of York (P.F. Chisholm)
• The Tower Man (Michael Jecks)
• A Disobedient Daughter (Jean Davidson)
• Murder Unauthorized (Amy Myers)
• Ice Sailor (Laird Long)
• Satan In The Star Chamber (Peter Tremayne)
• Green Tarts (Deryn Lake)
• O Poisonous Weed (F. Gwynplaine Macintyre)
• A Dead Man's Wish (John T. Aquino)
• Perfect Alibi (Philip Boast)
• The Restless Dead (Martin Edwards)
• A Taste For Ducking (Marilyn Todd)
• Death Knows No Compromise (Derek Wilson)
• A House Divided (Judith Cutler)
• Two Sides (Mike Stotter)
• The Palatable Truth (Carol Anne Davis)
• The Comedy That Became A Tragedy (F. Frankfort Moore)
• The Dumb Bell (Kate Ellis)
• The Curious Contents Of A Coffin (Susanna Gregory)
• The Dutchman And The Madagascar Pirates (Maan Meyers)
• Tom Of Ten Thousand (Edward Marston)
• The Philadelphia Slaughterman (Ian Morson)
• To Walk On Thorny Paths (Paul Finch)

The Mammoth Book of Dickensian Whodunnits

Editor: Mike Ashley

2007

"Charles Dickens created some of the most memorable characters in English literature. But just what became of the convict that frightened young Pip in Great Expectations? Was he guilty, or framed? And what really did become of Edwin Drood? Was the case ever solved? Mike Ashley presents over 25 vivid new whodunnits from the world of Dickens - recorded for posterity by such writers as Michael Pearce, Amy Myers, Peter Tremayne, Alanna Knight, Kage Baker, and Edward D. Hoch."

• Introduction: Dickensian Crimes: Marshalsea Handicap (Gillian Linscott)
• Three-Legged Cat Of Great Clatterden (Mary Reed And Eric Mayer)
• Murder In Murray's Court (David Stuart Davies)
• Leaping Lover (Kage Baker)
• End Of Little Nell (Robert Barnard)
• Encounter In The Dark (F. Gwynplaine Macintyre)
• Lord No Zoo (Deirdre Counihan)
• Bartered Child (Charles Todd)
• Fiery Devil (Peter Tremayne)
• Divine Nature (Kate Ellis)
• I Encounter An Old Friend And A New Mystery (Derek Wilson)
• Awaiting The Dawn (Marilyn Todd)
• Letter (Joan Lock)
• Not Cricket (Tom Wasp And The Swell Mob (Amy Myers)
• Miss Havisham's Revenge (Alanna Knight)
• Prints Of The Beast (Michael Pearce)
• Mystery Of Canute Villa (Martin Edwards)
• Watchful Unto Death (Hilary Bonner)
• Tidal (Michael Ryan)
• Thorn Of Anxiety (Edward Marston)

The Mammoth Book of Historical Crime Fiction

Editor: Mike Ashley

2011

"This superb anthology of 12 novellas encompasses over 4,000 years of our dark, criminal past, from Bronze Age Britain to the eve of the Second World War, with stories set in ancient Greece, Rome, the Byzantine Empire, medieval Venice, seventh-century Ireland and 1930s' New York."

• Archimedes And The Scientific Method (Tom Holt)
• Something To Do With Diana (Steven Saylor)
• Eyes Of The Icon (Mary Reed And Eric Mayer)
• Night Of The Snow Wolf (Peter Tremayne)
• Jettisoned (Deirdre Counihan)
• A Fiery Death (Ian Morson)
• Hide And Seek (Tony Pollard)
• The Fourth Quadrant (Dorothy Lumley)
• Brodie And The Regrettable Incident (Anne Perry)
• Forty Morgan Silver Dollars (Maan Meyers)
• Trafalgar (Charles Todd)
• Dead Of Winter (Richard A. Lupoff)