Historical whodunits
By: edited by Mike Ashley ; [foreword by Ellis Peters]
Contributors: Ashley, Michael.
Publisher: Barnes & Noble; Barnes & Noble Books
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 522
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.
Other titles: Mammoth book of historical whodunnits
Notes: "Originally published as The Mammoth book of historical whodunnits" -- T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [514]-522).
Table of contents: title: The locked tomb mystery / Elizabeth Peters; title: The thief versus King Rhampsinitus / Herodotus; title: Socrates solves a murder / Breni James; title: Mightier than the sword / John Maddox Roberts; title: The treasury thefts / Wallace Nichols; title: A Byzantine mystery / Mary Reed and Eric Mayer; title: He came with the rain / Robert van Gulik; title: The high king's sword / Peter Tremayne; title: The price of light / Ellis Peters; title: The confession of Brother Athelstan / Paul Harding; title: The witch's tale / Margaret Frazer; title: Father Hugh and the deadly scythe / Mary Monica Pulver; title: Leonardo Da Vinci, detective / Theodore Mathieson; title: A sad and bloody hour / Joe Gores; title: The Christmas masque / S.S. Rafferty; title: Murder lock'd in / Lillian de la Torre; title: Captain Nash and the wroth inheritance / Raymond Butler; title: The Doomdorf mystery / Melville Davisson Post; title: Murder in the Rue Royale / Michael Harrison; title: The gentleman from Paris / John Dickson Carr; title: The golden nugget poker game / Edward D. Hoch; title: The case of the Deptford horror / Arthur Conan Doyle; title: Five rings in Reno / R.L. Stevens.