Ancient

• Lindsey Davis
  Roman mysteries with Marcus Falco.
• Paul Doherty
  Egyptian mysteries.
• Margaret Doody
  Greek mysteries with Aristotle as a sleuth.
• Rosemary Rowe
  Roman whodunits with Libertus as a detective.
• Steven Saylor
  Roman mysteries featuring Gordianus the Finder.
• Marilyn Todd
  Roman mysteries with Claudia Seferius.
• David Wishart
  Roman mysteries with Marcus Corvinus.

Medieval

• Alys Clare
  Abbess Helewise and Josse d’Acquin detect crimes at Hawkenlye Abbey in the 12th century.
• Paul Doherty
  Sir Hugh Corbett sleuths in the14th century.
• Margaret Frazer
  Dame Frevisse solves crimes in the 15th century.
• CL Grace
  15th century mysteries with Kathryn Swinbrooke.
• Susanna Gregory
  Chronicles of Matthew Bartholomew (monk) set in the 14th century.
• Michael Jecks
  14th century crime set in Devon with bailiff Simon Puttock and Sir Baldwin.
• Bernard Knight
  12th century mysteries with Crowner John.
• Edward Marston
  11th century Domesday series with Ralph Delchard and Gervase Bret.
• Ellis Peters
  12th century crime solved by Brother Cadfael.
• Candace Robb
  Margaret Kerr 13th century mysteries amd Owen Archer mysteries in the late 14th century.
• Kate Sedley
  Roger the Chapman - 15th century mysteries.
• Peter Tremayne
  Sister Fidelma series set in the seventh century.

16th century

• Grace Cavendish
  Lady Grace Cavendish investigates.
• Michael Clynes
  Sir Roger Shallot mysteries.
• Judith Cook
  Dr Simon Forman investigates.
• Philip Gooden
  Shakespearean murder mysteries featuring actor Nick Revill.
• Edward Marston
  Nicholas Bracewell series set in Elizabethan times.
• John Pilkington
  Thomas the Falconer investigates.
• CJ Sansom
  Dr Shardlake solves crimes during Henry VIII’s reign.

17th century

• Edward Marston
  Christopher Redmayne series, set in the 1660s.
• Laura Joh Rowland
  Sano Ichuro solves crime in 17th century Japan.

18th century

• Stephanie Barron
  Jane Austen mysteries.
• Carrie Bebris
  Darcy mysteries based on characters in Pride and Prejudice.
• Janet Gleeson
  Mysteries set in London and a world of trade and money.
• Deryn Lake
  Apothecary John Rawlings solves crimes.

19th century

• Boris Akunin
  Erast Fandorin, gentleman sleuth in tsarist Russia and the Sister Pelagia series, set in provincial Russia.
• David Dickinson
  Irish investigator Lord Francis Powerscourt seeks out the truth.
• Alanna Knight
  Inspector Faro solves crime in Victorian England.
• Joan Lock
  Detective Sergeant Best tracks down criminals.
• Peter Lovesey
  Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackeray solve crimes, while in the Bertie series, the Prince of Wales diverts himself through detection.
• Edward Marston
  The Inspector Robert Colbeck series. All the cases revolve around railways.
• Amy Myers
  Auguste Didier, master chef, is constantly distracted by crime.
• Anne Perry
  Inspector Thomas Pitt investigates and private detective William Monk solves cases.
• Elizabeth Peters
  Amelia Peabody, archaeologist.
• David Pirie
  Arthur Conan Doyle and Dr Joseph Bell.
• Barrie Roberts
  Sherlock Holmes resurrected.

20th century

• Barbara Cleverly
  Policeman Joe Sandilands investigates crimes in 1920s India.
• HRF Keating
  Detective Ganesh Ghote of the Bombay Police Department and DS Harriet Martens.
• Laurie King
  Mary Russell and husband Sherlock Holmes investigate.
• Gillian Linscott
  Nell Bray, suffragette, tackles crime as well as inequality.
• Alex Mabon
  The Saunders and Brown Investigation Agency.
• Michael Pearce
  The Mamur Zapt series, set in 1900s Egypt.
• Anne Perry
  Chaplain Joseph Reavley encounters crime in the trenches during the First World War.

Websites

• www.criminal-history.co.uk
  A light-hearted web site for readers and writers of historical crime and mystery fiction.
• www.thecwa.co.uk
  Home of the Crime Writers Association.
• www.fantasticfiction.co.uk
  Information on more than 10,000 authors.