The Great ”Detectives” (1960) by Theodore Mathieson
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Overview: Historians please note! Literary archaeologist Theodore Mathieson has added ten hitherto unchronicled crimes to the history of the world—each one solved by a famed person of the past who acts as detective at a critical point in his destiny. In this crook’s tour of history, Mr. Mathieson has assembled the most illustrious all-star cast of detectives ever to appear in one book!
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller, Alternative History
ALEXANDER THE GREAT cuts the Gordian knot of political murder and finds a poisoner.
OMAR KHAYYAM solves a locked-room murder by interpreting the dying message the victim had circled with wine in a copy of the Rubáiyát.
LEONARDO DA VINCI uses his artist’s eye to explain how a killer made himself invisible.
HERNANDO CORTEZ, on his bloody retreat from Mexico, discovers the identity of the murderer of Montezuma.
MIGUEL CERVANTES is accused of murder and finds a passage in his own novel, Don Quixote, which clears him.
DANIEL DEFOE investigates a crime which changes his whole career on the clay her first meets Alexander Selkirk, the original Robinson Crusoe.
CAPTAIN COOK quells a drunken riot, in the forecastle and then has to find a murderer in order to avert mutiny.
DAN’L BOONE tracks a multiple killer who leaves no tracks and whose victims, although armed, mysteriously do not defend themselves.
STANLEY and LIVINGSTONE, with two thousand African savages about to attack, face the problem of finding out who among their own party plans to kill Livingstone and destroy the caravan.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE leads her nurses on their errand of mercy to the Crimea and is almost stopped at the beginning when a notorious thief leaves the body of a murdered man at her door.
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