The Alphabet in Historical Crime Fiction - D

Here are the rules: Each week you have to write a blog post about crime fiction related to the letter of the week. Your post MUST be related to either the first letter of a book's title, the first letter of an author's first name, or the first letter of the author's surname.

~ D ~

Sarah D’Almeida

D’Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, of Dumas fame, serving the king in 17th century France

• Death of a Musketeer (2006)


• The Musketeer’s Seamstress (2007)


• The Musketeer’s Apprentice (2007)


• A Death in Gascony (2008)


• Dying by the Sword (2008)

Lindsey Davis

Marcus Didius Falco, an “informer” for Emperor Vespasian in 1st century Rome

• Silver Pigs (1989) [r]


• Shadows in Bronze (1990)


• Venus in Copper (1991)


• The Iron Hand of Mars (1992)


• Poseidon’s Gold (1993) Finalist 1993 Last Laugh Dagger Award


• 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) 1999 Historical Dagger Award


• One Virgin Too Many (1999)


• Ode to a Banker (2000) Finalist 2001 Historical Dagger Award


• A Body in the Bathhouse (2001)


• The Jupiter Myth (2002) Finalist 2002 Historical Dagger Award


• The Accusers (2003)


• Scandal Takes a Holiday (2004)


• See Delphi and Die (2005)


• Saturnalia (2007)


• Alexandria (2009)
  

Dianne Day

(Caroline) Fremont Jones, owner of a typewriter service in turn-of-the-19th-century San Francisco

• The Strange Files of Fremont Jones (1995) 1996 Macavity Award for Best First Novel [r]


• Fire and Fog (1996) [r]


• The Bohemian Murders (1997) [r]


• Emperor Norton's Ghost (1998) [r]


• Death Train to Boston (1999) [r]


• Beacon Street Mourning (2000) [r]

Anna Dean

Miss Dido Kent, Spinster member of the gentry, Recency England

• A Moment of Silence (2008) [r]


• A Gentleman of Fortune (2009) [r]

Phillip DePoy

Brother Timon Cambridge, England 1605

• The King James Conspiracy (2009) [r]

Paul Doherty (yes this is all one author, lots of pseudonyms, I'm not listing standalones for this one)

Hugh Corbett, a spy for King Edward I in England

• Satan in St. Mary’s (1986) [r]


• The Crown in Darkness (1988) [r]


• 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 the Ghosts (2000)


• Corpse Candle (2001)


• The Magician’s Death (2004)


• The Waxman Murders (2006)


• Nightshade (2008)

Matthew Jenkyn, a 15th century soldier and double agent spy, in England

• The Whyte Hart (1988)


• The Serpent Among the Lilies (1990)

Brother Athelstan, a Dominican monk, and John Cranston, a coroner, in 14th century London, England

• Nightingale Gallery (1991)


• The Red Slayer (1992)


• Murder Most Holy (1992)


• Anger of God (1993)


• By Murder’s Bright Light (1994)


• The House of Crows (1995)


• The Assassin’s Riddle (1996)


• The Devil’s Domain (1998)


• The Field of Blood (1999)


• The House of Shadows (2003)

Nicholas Chirke, a young lawyer in medieval England, in the Canterbury Tales mysteries

• An Ancient Evil, Being the Knight’s Tale (1993)


• A Tapestry of Murders, Being the Man of Law’s Tale (1994)


• A Tournament of Murders, Being the Franklin’s Tale (1995)


• Ghostly Murders, Being the Priest’s Tale (1997)


• The Hangman’s Hymn, Being the Carpenter’s Tale (2002)


• A Haunt of Murder (2002)

Alexander the Great

• Murder in Macedon (1997)


• A Murder in Thebes (1998)


• The House of Death (2001)


• The Godless Man (2002)


• The Gates of Hell (2003)

Amerotke, Chief Judge in Thebes, Egypt

• The Mask of Ra (1998)


• The Horus Killings (1999)


• The Anubis Slayings (2000)


• The Slayers of Seth (2001)


• The Assassins of Isis (2004)


• The Poisoner of Ptah (2007)


• The Spies of Sobeck (2008) [US due February 2, 2010]

Mathilde of Westminster, a physician and former lady-in-waiting, in the court of Edward II, in 14th century, London, England

• The Cup of Ghosts (2005)


• The Poison Maiden (2007)


• The Darkening Glass (2009)

Sir Roger Shallot, agent of Cardinal Wolsey in England

• The White Rose Murders (1991)


• The Poisoned Chalice (1992)


• The Grail Murders (1993)


• A Brood of Vipers (1994)


• The Gallows Murders (1995)


• The Relic Murders (1996)

Kathryn Swinbrooke, a physician, apothecary, and death investigator in 15th century Canterbury, England

• A Shrine of Murders (1993)


• The Eye of God (1994)


• The Merchant of Death (1995)


• The Book of Shadows (1996)


• Saintly Murders (2001)


• A Maze of Murders (2003)


• A Feast of Poisons (2004)

Nicholas Segalla, a time-traveling scholar in England

• A Time for the Death of a King (1994) [r]


• The Prince Lost to Time (1995) [r]


• The Time of Murder at Mayerling (1996) [r]


• In the Time of the Poisoned Queen (1998) [r]

Margaret Doody

Aristotle, the philosopher, and Stephanos, a former student, in 330s BCE Athens under the rule of Alexander

• Aristotle Detective (1978)


• Aristotle and Poetic Justice (2002)


• Aristotle and the Secrets of Life (2003)


• Poison in Athens (2004)


• Mysteries in Eleusis (2005)

Carol Nelson Douglas

Irene Adler, opera star and sleuth in 19th century France

• Good Night, Mr. Holmes (1990)


• Good Morning, Irene (1990)


• Irene at Large (1992)


• Irene’s Last Waltz (1994)


• Chapel Noir (2001)


• Castle Rouge (2002)


• Femme Fatale (2003)


• Spider Dance (2004)

Ruth Downie

Gaius Petreius Ruso, a recently divorced Roman army physician, in second century Roman Britain

• Medicus (2007)


• Terra Incognita (2008)


• Persona Non Grata (2009)

Carola Dunn

Daisy Dalrymple, a journalist in 1920s Hampshire, England

• Death at Wentwater Court (1994) [r]


• The Winter Garden Mystery (1995) [r]


• Requiem for a Mezzo (1996) [r]


• Murder on the Flying Scotsman (1997) [r]


• Damsel in Distress (1997) [r]


• Dead in the Water (1998) [r]


• Styx and Stones (1999) [r]


• Rattle His Bones (2000) [r]


• To Davy Jones Below (2001) [r]


• The Case of the Murdered Muckraker (2002)


• Mistletoe and Murder (2002)


• Die Laughing (2003)


• A Mourning Wedding (2005)


• Fall of a Philanderer (2005)


• Gunpowder Plot (2006)


• The Bloody Tower (2007)


• Black Ship (2008)


• Sheer Folly (2009)

r = I've read it