March 10, 2010 | skrzynskie
I love Victorian mysteries, movies, non-fiction or anything with that flavor or set in that time period. A trifle romantic, a bit goth, always prim and proper up front, but underneath...ooh, so mysterious! Here is a list of titles, some classics, but most not so well known.
Fiction
Kept : a Victorian mystery by D.J. Taylor
Death at Whitechapel : a Victorian mystery by Robin Paige
Defend and betray by A Victorian Mystery Featuring Inspector Monk by Anne Perry
Mrs. Jeffries and the missing alibi by Emily Brightwell
Silent in the grave by Deanna Raybourn
The curse of the pharaohs by Elizabeth Peters
The ruby in the smoke by Philip Pullman
Death at Glamis Castle by Robin Paige
Mr. Doyle & Dr. Bell : a Victorian mystery by Howard Engel
The return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Blood atonement by Dan Waddell
Grace Hammer : a novel of the Victorian underworld by Sara Stockbridge
The glass of time : the secret life of Miss Esperanza Gorst : narrated by herself by Michael Cox
The historian : a novel by Elizabeth Kostova
Dracula by Bram Stoker ; with an introduction and notes by Brooke Allen
Non-Fiction
The fasting girl : a true Victorian medical mystery by Michelle Stacey
The sisters of Sinai : how two lady adventurers discovered the Lost Gospels by Janet Soskice
The suspicions of Mr. Whicher : a shocking murder and theundoing of a great Victorian detective by Kate Summerscale
The Victorian underworld by Donald Thomas
Short Stories
Victorian ghost stories by eminent women writers ; edited by Richard Dalby
Victorian tales of mystery and detection : an Oxford anthology by selected and introduced by Michael Cox
Videos
Ruby in the smoke [videodisc] by a BBC and WGBH Boston co-production
Scrooge [videodisc] by Cinema Center Films
The prestige [videodisc] by Touchstone Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures present a Newmarket Films and Syncopy production ; a film by Christopher Nolan
Sherlock Holmes [videodisc]: the Sign of four by GranadaTelevision Ltd
Sherlock Holmes [videodisc]: the return of Sherlock Holmes. Volume 1
The French lieutenant's woman [videodisc] by United Artists
The Mystery of Edwin Drood [videorecording] by BevanfieldFilms presents for First Standard Media PLC ; producer, Keith Hayley ; director/writer, Timothy Forder
Dracula [videodisc] by Columbia Pictures presents an American Zoetrope/Osiris Films production