Fictional detectives often interact across a wide spectrum of society, from Emperors to Vagabonds, so a good crime novel can give a more interesting and memorable insight into History or Geography than the lives of Kings and Queens, or guidebooks.
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Three hands in the fountain by Lindsey Davis
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First-century Roman sleuth Marcus Didius Falco seeks a serial killer who keeps leaving the body parts of his murdered victims …
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See Delphi and die by Lindsey Davis (Marcus Didius Falco, #17)
When Falco and Helena hear that a young girl and a newly married woman have been murdered at Olympia, they …
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A Maigret Christmas: And Other Stories by Georges Simenon
Three short stories 'A Maigret Christmas', an Inspector Maigret adventure on Christmas Day. 'Seven Small Crosses in a Notebook' 'The …
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The beast in the red forest by Sam Eastland (Inspector Pekkala novel)
A soldier returns from the frontline of battle to report that Inspector Pekkala's charred body has been found at the …
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Red icon by Sam Eastland (Eastland, Sam.:Inspector Pekkala)
In the midst of the fighting, two Russian soldiers seek refuge in the crypt of a German church. There, clutched …
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Berlin Red by Sam Eastland (Inspector Pekkala series -- book 7)
April, 1945. East of Berlin, the Red Army stands poised to unleash its final assault upon the ruined capital of …