The Mammoth Book of Historical Crime Fiction

From Ancient Rome through thirteenth-century Venice to 1930s' New York, twelve compelling historical crime stories.
Our dark past brought to life by leading contemporary crime writers:Introduction: Return to the Crime Scene
Archimedes and the Scientific Method by Tom Holt.
Something to do with Diana by Steven Saylor.
Eyes of the Icon by Mary Reed and Eric Mayer.
Night of the Snow Wolf by Peter Tremayne.
Jettisoned by Deirdre Counihan.
A Fiery Death by Ian Morson.
Hide and Seek Tony Pollard.
The Fourth Quadrant by Dorothy Lumley.
Brodie and the Regrettable Incident by Anne Perry.
Forty Morgan Silver Dollars by Maan Meyers.
Trafalgar by Charles Todd.
Dead of Winter by Richard A. Lupoff.A new generation of crime writers has broadened the genre of crime fiction, creating more human stories of historical realism, with a stronger emphasis on character and the psychology of crime.
This superb anthology of 12 novellas encompasses over 4,000 years of our dark, criminal past, from Bronze Age Britain to the eve of the Second World War, with stories set in ancient Greece, Rome, the Byzantine Empire, medieval Venice, seventh-century Ireland and 1930s' New York.
A Byzantine icon painter, suddenly out of work when icons are banned, becomes embroiled in a case of deception; Charles Babbage and the young Ada Byron try to crack a coded message and stop a master criminal; and New York detectives are on the lookout for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.