An unusual crime novel that takes place in New York City in 1896. Jeri Sapir, Huntington PL Cornwell, Bernard. Cornwell writes exclusively about historical military events. His characters are fictional, but the events which frame the story are historically accurate and well researched. He has three different series, the first of which is the Sharpe novels.
Sharpe is a lowly English infantryman in Wellington's army.
The BBC have filmed four episodes of Sharpe's adventures starring Sean Bean. They follow many of the events of the books but they are not exact parallels. The second series are the Starbuck chronicles that trace the adventures of a Northerner caught in Savannah at the outset of the Civil War. The most recent series, the Warlord Chronicles, are about King Arthur. He walks the mean streets of first-century Rome.