Historical mystery
List of fictional historical detectives
The following list consists of fictional historical detectives in chronological order of their time period setting:

Historical mystery

Section Title: List of fictional historical detectives
Table Section Text: The following list consists of fictional historical detectives in chronological order of their time period setting:

Detective	Setting	Period	Creator	Debut Title	Debut Year

Lieutenant Bak	Ancient Egypt	15th century BCE	Lauren Haney	The Right Hand of Amon	1997

Amerokte	Ancient Egypt	15th century BCE	Paul Doherty	The Mask of Ra	1998

Lord Meren	Ancient Egypt	14th century BCE	Lynda S. Robinson	Murder in the Place of Anubis	1994

Rahotep	Ancient Egypt	14th century BCE	Nick Drake	Nefertiti: The Book of the Dead	2006

Heracles Pontor	Classical Athens	Late 5th century BCE	José Carlos Somoza	The Athenian Murders	2000

Nicolaos	Classical Athens	5th century BCE	Gary Corby	The Pericles Commission	2010

Alexander the Great	Ancient Greece	4th century BCE	Paul Doherty	A Murder in Macedon	1997

Senator Decius Metellus	Roman Republic	1st century BCE	John Maddox Roberts	SPQR	1990

Gordianus the Finder	Roman Republic	1st century BCE	Steven Saylor	Roman Blood	1991

Marcus Corvinus	Rome	1st century CE	David Wishart	Ovid	1995

Marcus Didius Falco	Roman Empire	70 to 77 CE	Lindsey Davis	The Silver Pigs	1989

Flavia Gemina	Roman Empire	79 to 81 CE	Caroline Lawrence	The Thieves of Ostia	2001

Libertus	Roman Empire	Late 2nd century CE	Rosemary Rowe	The Germanicus Mosaic	1999

John, the Lord Chamberlain	Constantinople	6th century	Mary Reed/Eric Mayer	One for Sorrow	1999

Judge Dee	China	7th century	Robert van Gulik	Di Gong An	1949

Li Kao	China	7th century	Barry Hughart	Bridge of Birds	1984

Sister Fidelma	Ireland	7th century	Peter Tremayne	Absolution by Murder	1994

Father George	Byzantine Empire	8th century	Harry Turtledove	Farmers' Law	2000

Sugawara Akitada	Japan	11th century	I. J. Parker	"Instruments of Murder"	1997

Lassair	England	11th century	Alys Clare	Out of the Dawn Light	2009

Brother Cadfael	Wales and England	1120, 1137–1145	Ellis Peters	A Morbid Taste for Bones	1977

Justin de Quincy	England	12th century	Sharon Kay Penman	The Queen's Man	1996

Josse d'Acquin/Abbess of Hawkenlye	England	12th century	Alys Clare	Fortune Like the Moon	1999

Magdalene la a Bâtarde	London	12th century	Roberta Gellis	A Mortal Bane	1999

Adelia Aguilar	England	12th century	Ariana Franklin	Mistress of the Art of Death	2007

Hugh Corbett	England	13th century	Paul Doherty	Satan in St Mary's	1986

Theophilos (Feste)	Illyria, Constantinople, Tyre, Denmark, etc.	13th century	Alan Gordon	Thirteenth Night	1999

Edwin Weaver	England	13th century	Catherine Hanley	The Sins of the Father	2009

Oldřich of Chlum	Bohemia and Moravia	13th century	Vlastimil Vondruška	Dýka s hadem (Dagger with a snake)	2002

Brother William of Baskerville	Italy	1327	Umberto Eco	The Name of the Rose	1980

Baldwin de Furnshill	Devon	14th century	Michael Jecks	The Last Templar	1995

Matthew Bartholomew	England	14th century	Susanna Gregory	A Plague on Both Your Houses	1996

Mathilde of Westminster	England	14th century	Paul Doherty	The Cup of Ghosts	2005

Brother Athelstan	London	Late 14th century	Paul Doherty	The Nightingale Gallery	1991

Owen Archer	York	Late 14th century	Candace Robb	The Apothecary Rose	1993

Roger the Chapman	England	15th century	Kate Sedley	Death and the Chapman	1991

Dame Frevisse	Oxfordshire	15th century	Margaret Frazer	The Novice's Tale	1992

Kathryn Swinbrooke	England	15th century	Paul Doherty	A Shrine of Murders	1993

Acatl, High Priest of Mictlantecuhtli	Tenochtitlan	1480	Aliette de Bodard	"Obsidian Shards" (novella)	2007

Sir Roger Shallot	England	16th century	Paul Doherty	The White Rose Murders	1991

Nicholas Segalla	EnglandEdinburghFranceVienna	1558156717931889	Paul Doherty	A Time for the Death of a King	1994

Matthew Shardlake	London	16th century	C. J. Sansom	Dissolution	2003

Bianca Goddard	London	16th century	Mary Lawrence	The Alchemist's Daughter	2015

Giordano Bruno	London	16th century	S. J. Parris	Heresy	2010

Sir Robert Carey	Carlisle, then London	Late 16th century	Patricia Finney (writing as P F Chisholm)	A Famine of Horses	1994

Sano Ichirō	Genroku-era Japan	17th century	Laura Joh Rowland	Shinjū	1994

Thomas Chaloner	England	17th century	Susanna Gregory	A Conspiracy of Violence	2006

Benjamin Weaver	England	1720	David Liss	A Conspiracy of Paper	2000

Canaletto	England	18th century	Janet Laurence	Canaletto and the Case of Westminster Bridge	1997

John Fielding	England	18th century	Bruce Alexander Cook	Blind Justice	1994

Lord John Grey	England, Prussia, Scotland and Jamaica	1756–1761	Diana Gabaldon	Lord John and the Hellfire Club	1998

Samuel Johnson/James Boswell	England	18th century	Lillian de la Torre	"The Great Seal of England"	1943

Dick Darwent	England	1815	John Dickson Carr	The Bride of Newgate	1950

Matthew Hawkwood	England	18th century	James McGee	Trigger Men	1985

Sergeant Cribb	England	19th century	Peter Lovesey	Wobble to Death	1970

Thomas Pitt	England	19th century	Anne Perry	The Cater Street Hangman	1979

William Monk	England	19th century	Anne Perry	The Face of a Stranger	1990

Mrs. Jeffries	England	19th century	Emily Brightwell	The Inspector and Mrs. Jeffries	1993

Edmund Blackstone	England	1820s	Richard Falkirk	Blackstone	1972

Benjamin January	New Orleans	1833	Barbara Hambly	A Free Man of Color	1997

Yashim the Eunuch	Ottoman Empire	1836	Jason Goodwin	The Janissary Tree	2006

Uncle Abner	West Virginia	Mid-19th century	Melville Davisson Post	"The Angel of the Lord"	1911

Erast Fandorin	Russia, Japan, etc.	1876–1914	Boris Akunin	The Winter Queen	1998

Ambrose Bierce	San Francisco	Late 19th century	Oakley Hall	Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades	1998

William Murdoch	Toronto	1890s	Maureen Jennings	Except the Dying	1997

Sister Pelagia	Russia	1890s or Early 20th century	Boris Akunin	Pelagia and the White Bulldog	2000 (Russian) 2006 (English)

Amelia Peabody	Egypt	1884–1923	Elizabeth Peters	Crocodile on the Sandbank	1975

Alexander von Reisden	Boston	Early 20th century	Sarah Smith	The Vanished Child	1992

Simon Ziele	New York City	Early 20th century	Stefanie Pintoff	In the Shadow of Gotham	2009

Mary Russell	Worldwide	Early 20th century	Laurie R. King	The Beekeeper's Apprentice	1994

Joe Sandilands	Colonial India, Europe	1920s/1930s	Barbara Cleverly	The Last Kashmiri Rose	2001

Bernie Günther	Berlin	1934–1954	Philip Kerr	March Violets	1989

Laetitia Talbot	Crete, Burgundy, Athens	1920s	Barbara Cleverly	The Tomb of Zeus	2007

Phryne Fisher	Melbourne	1920s	Kerry Greenwood	Cocaine Blues	1989

Professor John Stableford	England	1930s	de:Rob Reef	Stableford on Golf	2013

Lady Georgiana	England/Scotland	1930s	Rhys Bowen	Her Royal Spyness	2007

Alexei Korolev	Moscow	1936	William Ryan	The Holy Thief	2010

Kasper Meier	Berlin	1946	Ben Fergusson	The Spring of Kasper Meier	2014

Sentence(s)

Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose (1980).

final_sentence: Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose (1980).