An Author Bites the Dust
The Bacheloros of Broken Hill
The Battling Prophet
The Bone is Pointed
Bony and the Kelly Gang
The Bushman Who Came Back
Death of a Lake
Death of a Swagman
The Devil's Steps
Journey to the Hangman
Man of Two Tribes
The Mountains Have a Secret
Murder Down Under
Murder Must Wait
The Mystery of Swordfish Reef
The New Shoe
No Footprints in the Bush
The Sands of Windee
Sinister Stones
The Torn Branch
Venom House
The Windows of Broome
The Will of the Tribe
Winds of Evil
Wings Above the Diamantina
Bony Buys a Woman
The Lake Frome Monster
Bony and the Mouse
Bony and the Black Virgin
Bony and the White Savage
Madman's Bend
The Barrakee Mystery
About Arthur Upfield: The Spirit of Australia: The Crime Fiction of Arthur W. Upfield by Ray Broadus Brown 1988
Jim Chee and Lt. Leaphorn Series:
The Blessing Way (1970)
Dance Hall of the Dead (1973)
Listening Woman (1978)
People of Darkness (1980)
The Dark Wind (1982)
The Ghostway (1984)
Skinwalkers (1986)
A Thief of Time (1988)
Talking God (1989)
Coyote Waits (1990)
Sacred Clowns (1993)
The Fallen Man (1996)
The First Eagle (1998)
Hunting Badger (November 1999)
Falco mysteries
The Silver Pigs (1989)
Shadows in Bronge (1990)
Venus in Copper (1991)
The Iron Hand of Mars (1992)
Poseindon's Gold (1993)
Last Act in Palmyra (1994)
Time to Depart (1995)
A Dying Light in Corduba (1996)
Three Hands in the Fountain (1997)
Two for the Lions (1998)
One Virgin Too Many (1999)
Ode to a Banker (2000)
Http://www.lindseydavis.co.uk/
Celebrated cases of Judge Dee
The Red Pavilion, 1961
The Chinese Gold Murders, 1959
The Emperor's Pearl, 1963
The Chinese Bell Murders, 1960
The Chinese Maze Murders
The Lacquer Screen, 1962
The Willow Pattern, 1965
The Haunted Monastery, 1961
The Chinese Lake Murders, 1960
The Chinese Nail Murders
The Monkey and the Tiger
Judge Dee at Work
Necklace and Calabash
Murder in Canton
The Phantom of the Temple
Poets and Murder
A Morbid Taste for Bones
One Corpse Too Many
Monk's Hood
St. Peter's Fair
The Leper of St. Giles
The Virgin in the Ice
The Sanctuary Sparrow
The Devil's Novice
Dead Man's Ransom
The Pilgrim of Hate
An Excellent Mystery
The Raven in the Foregate
The Rose Rent
The Hermit of Eyton Forest
The Confession of Brother Haluin
The Heretic's Apprentice
A Rare Benedectine
The Potter's Field
The Summer of the Danes
The Holy Thief
Brother Cadfael's Penance
Dana Stabenow
Kate Shugak, an Aleut detective living "in the Park", is stabenow's protagonist. Good suspense with great descriptions of contemporary Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Alaskan life. Chilling. Stabenow has introduced another protagonist in her "Liam Campbell" series. Also very entertaining.
Novels featuring Kat Shugak:
A Cold Day for Murder (1992)
A Fatal Thaw (1993)
Dead in the Water (1993)
A Cold-Blooded Business (1994)
Play With Fire (1995)
Blood Will Tell (1996)
Breakup (1997)
Killing Grounds (1998)
Hunter's Moon (1999)
The Singing of the Dead
Liam Campbell Mysteries
Fire and Ice
So Sure of Death
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Better to Rest
Lynda Robinson
Robinson is an archaeologist with a Ph. D from the University of Texas who writes about ancient Egypt. Her vivid descriptions of daily life, as in Eater of Souls, enhance her deadly tales. Slithery.
Lord Meren Mysteries
Murder in the Place of Anubis
Murder at the God's Gate 1995
Murder at the Feast of Rejoicing. 1996
Eater of Souls 1997
Drinker of Blood 1998
Elizabeth Peters/Barbara Michaels
If you like a good laugh with the gruesome end of the trowel, her Elizabeth Peabody mysteries are full of great reconstructions of turn of the century Egyptian archaeology. They are also good reconstructions of life in 19th century colonial Egypt. Dr. W. R. Johnson, field director of the Epigraphic Survey, Oriental Institute (Chicago House, Luxor, Egypt had this to say: "Elizabeth Peters/Barbara Michaels has once again brilliantly evoked the mystery, excitement, and yes, passion of a Golden Age of Egyptology, with generous doses of wit and suspense thrown in for good measure. This Egyptologist gives 'The Hippopotamus Pool' three thumbs up!" So there. Ps. Elizabeth Peters has a Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago.
Please, dear reader, read them in order.
Novels featuring Amelia Peabody:
Crocodile on the Sandbank (1975)
The Curse of the Pharohs (1981)
The Mummy Case (1985)
Lion in the Valley (1986)
The Deeds of the Disturber (1988)
The Last Camel Died at Noon (1991)
The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog (1992)
The Hippopotamus Pool (1995)
Seeing a Large Cat (1997)
The Ape Who Guards the Balance (1998)
The Falcon at the Portal (1999)
Paul Doherty
In the Mask of Ra, Doherty transports us to ancient Egypt 1479 BC. Full of intrigue and behind the throne shenanigans, it is a whacking good tale. (I haven't had an opportunity to try his medieval whodunits such as the Hugh Corbett mysteriest or the Sorrowful Mysteriest of Brother Athelstan.) (Titles were taken from Amazon.Com and there may be some mix-ups).
Egypt
The Anubis Slayings 2001
The Horus Killings 2000
The Mask of Ra 1999
?The Serpent Among the Lilies ?
Medieval
The Demon Archer: A Medieval Mystery 2001
Ghostly Murders: The Priests Tale ..... 1998
The Death of a King
The Devil's Hunt 1998
A Tournament of Murders: The Franklin's Tale... 1997
A Tapestry of Murders: The Lawyer's Tale 1996
Satan's Fire 1996
The Prince of Darkness 1996
The Assassin in the Greenwood 1996
The Song of a Dark Angel 1996
Satan in St. Mary's
The Crown in Darkness
The Whyte Harte
Spy in Chancery
Angel of Death
The Fate of Princes
The Masked Man
Murder Wears a Cowl
Margaret Coel
Her Arapaho country mysteries are fun. The Story Teller (1998) revolves around a "controversy" of whether the Arapaho were also among those massacred at Sand Creek in 1864. (The November/December 1999 issue of Archaeology indicates that Cheyenne and Arapaho oral tranditions led archaeologists and historians to "redicover" the site after 100 years.) Discussion of NAGPRA (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act) and its influences on modern tribal affairs is timely and well woven into the plot.
The Eagle Catcher (1995)
The Ghost Walker (1996)
The Dream Stalker (1997)
The Story Teller (1998)
The Lost Bird (1999).
Kathi Reichs
Déjà Dead is not for the faint of heart. Reichs is a forensic anthropologist who writes knowingly of contemporary Montreal. Very good. Very grisly.
Dèjà Dead
Death du Jour
Deadly Décisions
Another writer of this genre is Patricia Cornwell who involves a forensic anthropologist in Point of Origin. Also grisly.
Aaron Elkins features Gideon Oliver, a forensic anthropologist ("skeleton detective") in a variety of exotic settings and scenarios.
Curses
The Dark Place
Fellowship of Fear
Murder in the Queen's Armes
Old Bones
Icy Clutches
Make No Bones
Dead Men's Hearts
Rotten Lies
Twenty Blue Devils
Aimee and David Thurlo bring us Ella Clah, a Navajo detective
Blackening Song (1995)
Death Walker (1996)
Bad Medicine (1997)
Enemy Way (1998)
Shooting Chant (April 2000)
Red Mesa (April 2001)
Steven Saylor returns us to Rome with
Arms of Nemesis
Catalina's Riddle
A History of the Black Press
The House of the Vestals
A Murder on the Appian Way
Roman Blood
Rublicon
The Venus Throw
John Maddox Roberts
SPQR (includes a glossary at the back)
The Cataline Conspiracy ("Spqr II)
The Sacrilege (Spqr III) 1999
The Temple of the Muses (Spqr IV)
Spqr V: Saturnalia 1999
Murder in Tarsis
?The King's Gambit?
The Temple of the Muses
Legacy of Prometheus
Dominic Highsmith..... (untried)
Peter Tremayne.....
(untried)
HRF Keating
This author sets his mysteriest in 1950s - 1970s India. Bats Fly Up for Inspector Ghote is a bit on the tame side, but then almost everything is compared to Reichs and Corwell.
* Acknowledgements to Professor George Demko, Geography, Dartmouth College (Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, April 1997: 20-21) for this idea. His book, Landscapes of Murder, should be out by now. Special thanks to Dr. Lea Stirling, Classics, University of Manitoba for putting me on to Lindsey Davis and Elizabeth Peters as well as associated websites.
Associated Websites
A "Lindsey Davis" (Falco) website
http://www.lindseydavis.co.uk/
Archaeology in fiction: by Anita G. Cohen-Williams. A very
large "Fiction" website dealing with archaeology
http://www.tamu.edu/anthropology/fiction.html