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Evelyn Emerson

Evelyn Emerson is a fictional character from the Amelia Peabody series of historical mystery novels by Elizabeth Peters.

Murder on the Leviathan

Murder on the Leviathan (Russian: Левиафан ("Leviathan"); British edition titled Leviathan) is the third novel in the Erast Fandorin historical detective series by Boris Akunin, although it was the second book in the series to be translated into English.


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Casebook: Jack the Ripper

Casebook: Jack the Ripper is a website devoted to the historical mystery of the Jack the Ripper murders of Whitechapel and the surrounding areas of London in 1888 and possibly other years.

Quadroon

Benjamin January/Janvier, a free man of color and the main character in Barbara Hambly's historical mystery series set in 1830's New Orleans, is a described as a griffe.

The Tercentenary Incident

Ellery Queen editor Frederic Dannay contacted Asimov in the fall of 1975 with a story proposal: the August 1976 issue, which would be on the stands during the United States Bicentennial, would include a contemporary mystery set in 1976 and a historical mystery set in 1876.

Walter B. Gibson

In addition, Gibson is the protagonist, along with Orson Welles, in a historical mystery by Max Allan Collins, The War of the Worlds Murder, published by Berkley Books in 2005.